Sentences with phrase «find lasting work»

«Our recent research shows that 80 % of employers believe apprenticeships will help reduce youth unemployment and an overwhelming 100 % of employers felt that Apprenticeships give young people the skills they need to find lasting work.

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Mark Karpelès, the CEO who presided over Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox until it went bankrupt in 2014, has had a hard time finding work for the last four years.

To be considered «Unemployed» a survey respondent must not have done any work for pay during a particular week of the survey month, must be available for work, and — most crucially — must have done something to find a job during the last four weeks.

«It became too difficult to turn a profit last year, so I closed the canteen and went to find work as a cook,» said Zhang, who left Bianqiang village 14 years ago.

Ultimately, building a dedicated community from the ground up is hard work, but if you find the right location, lead by example, think about cultural fit, create impactful events, and don't overcomplicate things, you'll be well on your way to building a lasting professional community.

Last month, LinkedIn LKND released Lookup, a mobile app that lets a company's employees find coworkers by name, title, and skills by logging in with their work email address.

Rita Alvy - Teeter came into work one bright spring day last year to find a third of the revenue pulled out from under her Irvine, California, design firm.

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

Last but not least, find purpose in your work.

Sandi MacPherson, who founded the online community Quibb, started working last year with tech conference organizers to help recruit women to fill at least half of the speaking slots.

We helped Uber in a similar way last year by finding out why its new digital platform to sign - up new drivers wasn't working in their target growth market of Egypt.

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

Nearly a third of older workers in the NORC study said they have brushed up their skills through job training or school during the last half decade, which could provide an income boost and help in finding late - career work.

Ball State University researcher Michael Hicks found last year that there has been plenty of upheaval in states that have adopted right - to - work legislation, but he said it was difficult to establish a cause - and - effect relationship.

Investors in target - date funds at work face a conundrum: They don't necessarily have the savvy to choose their own investments, but they may find themselves questioning their employers» appetite for risk — especially if they saw their balances drop sharply last month.

Over the last eight years managing my own remote company, FlexJobs, I've learned you have to find what works best for your virtual company.

In response to such a call from the G - 20 in Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a living.

«Startup Live enables participants to know each other, interact, and find partners to work with in the future,» explains Thanos Makris, who is the co-founder of apps studio iMellon and was a participant in last year's event.

Like last week, when the episode of House of Cards I was watching on Netflix juddered and stopped, and I spent the next half - hour rebooting various black boxes so I could find out how Frank Underwood's latest machiavellian scheme worked out.

«No one is doing the hard work of finding out «who are my marginal customers, and saying «let's test in a rigorous way for a randomized control experiment, and let's go the last mile to make sure we're talking to those people in the most efficient way possible.»»

A Federal Reserve working paper from last year found that at least three - quarters of the decline in new charters is attributable to the weak economy and low interest rates.

If you're working on your first water project, you could actually find the last five water projects that we've done that are applicable to what you're trying to do, and connect to the people who worked on them.

What's curious about this response is that Zuckerberg elides to mention how Facebook's own staff have worked with the program he's suggesting his company «found now» — as if it had only discovered the existence of the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre, whose researchers have in fact been working with Facebook data since at least 2007, since the Cambridge Analytica story snowballed into a major public scandal last month.

Cohen's recent legal works appears to have been limited, with his lawyer saying in court Monday that Cohen had 10 clients in 2017 and 2018, but only three to whom he provided legal services: Trump, GOP donor Elliott Broidy (for whom we found out last week Cohen had negotiated a hush - money payment) and Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

Well, one of the differences is our proposal around C - 32 had to do with recognizing the work of Canadian artists and the creativity and finding a way in a post-CD world to actually encourage creators of content to make a living off of it and the supposed iPod tax was one way of looking at perhaps making sure that we have Canadian artists celebrated and successful the way we managed to celebrate last night with the Junos.

Since Propel's founding last year, we have continued to explore our B2B2E thesis, with «E» representing employees at work.

And yet, each month, they find themselves putting aside their product development, their marketing, their customer service and the work they're supposed to be doing for their clients in order to spend hours listing all of the tasks they've performed over the last thirty or so days.

«The cost of prototyping new ideas has plummeted over the last five years, and it's rapidly becoming easier to work with manufacturers in Asia to find scale,» Fleetwood said.

The last thing you want is to neglect living your life and enjoying things because you find yourself spending long nights working at something that has become a chore and an obligation.

Last week I was working with an international client looking to buy a property in Miami, and they asked me to find something completely unobtainable — a 3 - bedroom condo in South Beach for $ 170 per square foot.

(That's the last thing you want if you've just gone through the work to find a high - interest savings account.)

If you are unable to continue to work you might find that your retirement savings will not last as long you hope..

Furthermore, by working on different aspects, especially the financial model in depth, I found the courage to enter Jazz Hands into a social venture competition at Stern and I just learnt last week that I won funding of $ 7000 which I intend to use for workshops in the summer.

I find the true and long - lasting work happens when we take the time to walk with each other in that journey.

Our book is meant t be suggestive only LOL God luck I have feeling AA will weather the hate as it has the last 75 + years and continue to reach out to those so desperately in need of sobriety for free LOL If you read this and want to get sober please try AA if it doesn't work for you find something that does.

Or if I found out that I lost my last bit of money, or if I were told that people are waiting for me at the place where I work and I am still at home, still in bed, etc.?

He said: «Both of them were becoming war weary and wanted to find a way out and I think at long last after very bloody battles I think we're finally at a stage where we might see a truce holding to allow the politicians to do their work.»

As far as the «fat» thing, I find that going to two meals / day, less than 8 hrs between first bite & last, works slowly, but works...

The last years of Evelyn Underhill's spiritual pilgrimage thus found her, a pacifist, although she never worked her ideas into a finely spun philosophy.

I have been out of work for more than six months but I learned more during this time than the last 5 years before that and I found I do not have to follow the news or watch any TV.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

Speaking of the importance of marking St David's Day, Archbishop John said in a statement, «St David founded communities where people worked, with whatever resources they had, to create trusting, supporting and lasting relationships in which everyone felt secure, supported and valued.

I have read the bible cover to cover many times, and once was an ordained minister in California, but after the last 10 years of studying something other than the bible I found that the «light» in the bible is quite dim when compaired to the brightness found in the rest of humanity's collective knowledge on how the universe works and our origins.

In the last analysis, men stand before God not otherwise than the day laborers of the parable, with their utter lack of any legal claim (that was the rule in those days), men who must not make comparisons or find fault if others receive a better assignment of work and therefore a larger reward (Matt.

Tulunid — dynasty of Egypt, founded by Abmad Ibn Tulun, a Turkish slave, in 254 (A.D. 868); it lasted only thirty - seven years, but was noted for its wealth and public works.

I made the cake on easter according to your recipe as I was able to find dates on last minute It worked really well and was delicious.

The last Native Box I bought had a stain remover from this brand which I've found works really well, so I was happy to see something else from them as well!

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