When I graduated, the recession was just taking hold so I took
the first job I was offered and applied to Countdown on a whim.
If you are unhappy in your current situation it might be tempting to take
the first job you are offered, but you need to be careful you aren't walking into a worse situation.
It can be beneficial to portray yourself as someone who is financially secure and more interested in finding a great fitting position rather than taking the first job you're offered.
Not exact matches
A National Association of Colleges and Employers survey found that unpaid interns
were no better at landing
job offers than those who did no internship; and unpaid interns
were paid an average $ 1,366 less in their
first job than students who started cold.
If you found a VA that you liked working with so much that you
offered him or her a permanent
job, you wouldn't
be the
first savvy small business owner to find employees this way.
That
was one mistake I made on my
first project: I had listened to people who wanted to volunteer, but not to those who had volunteer
jobs to
offer.
New employees
are offered $ 2,000 to quit after the
first week of training if they decide the
job isn't for them.
The
first is that, for dual income households, marriage
is a form of unemployment insurance: if one partner loses a
job, the other can
offer financial support.
When I
was a young guy coming out of school getting my
first real
job, my dad
offered me some interesting advice.
Whitman, who joined HP's board in early 2011, turned down the CEO
job the
first time it
was offered.
Don
first got hired at the agency after meeting Roger, engineering a daytime bender, and then showing up the next day to convince Roger he'd
offered Don a
job but had
been too drunk to remember doing it.
They attribute the sticker shock to two factors:
first, there
is a proliferation of Web - design freelancers and moonlighters who
offer their services at bargain prices on
job exchanges like eLance.com; second, some huge companies have run ad campaigns claiming they can build a legit Web presence for a low starting cost.
Actually, I
was offered a
job the Monday after Thanksgiving and
was told to report for work after the
first of the year.
End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will
be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open
jobs are offered to American workers
first.
In addition to creating
jobs, serving as a community gathering place, and delivering a fantastic retail experience in the community, this store will
be the
first to
offer a dedicated onsite training space where local youth can sign up for retail skills training courses provided in partnership by two local nonprofits.
Assuming you aren't on your
first week of the
job, you know more about your
offering — and your clients» challenges — than any prospect does.
I
was extremely fortunate that the
first startup
job offer I received
was written by a pair of founders who had the utmost integrity and explained things very clearly.
Some graduates
are in such a rush to land a
job — any
job — that they sometimes jump into the
first position they
're offered.
This
is not our
first offering with the folks at Cellar Angels, and it
is because of the great
job they do that we continue to support their efforts.
The air conditioning
was a bit poor in our room — to
be honest we didn't really need it for the
first 4 nights as there
was a real strong wind on an evening which kept things nice and cool but half way through our stay the wind suddenly dropped and the room
was stifling — Reception actioned this immediately and sent an engineer to our room — who couldn't get it fixed although it did get marginally better — reception
offered to change our room but again this
was more hassle than it
was worth by this point during our stay so they provided us a fan instead which did the
job.
«We
are traditionally the
first job for many local teens and also
offer flexibility for adults who work on a part - time basis.
They will obviously
first know mom and dad
's voice best, and that will
be the gateway to other sounds, mommy and daddy
are the hosts to the tummy time show, it
's their
job to rattle items in front of baby, place colourful items nearby and
offer a variety of textures so that baby can engage in sensory development.
Kemi Badenoch wasn't sure if she
was in line for a
job offer or a «bollocking» when she
was summoned to Number 10 on the
first Monday after the Christmas recess.
They
're a vital part of our plan to create an economy that puts hard - working people
first and that
offers good
jobs with decent wages»
Spies said Kelly, who The Post revealed has
been offered a top
job at J.P. Morgan, arrived
first for dinner with former NYSE chairman Richard Grasso and their wives.
In the House of Commons he stated that he had
been placed under pressure by the prime minister to withdraw the motion,
first by
being offered a
job, and then by
being threatened.
It
is not the
first job offer that the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments has had to scrutinise for Hague in recent months...
The
first job for the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg,
is to persuade the party that he (and they) made the right decision in accepting David Cameron's
offer to form a coalition administration.
The party
is believed to have made its
first job offer to Warren, who
is a member, in the summer — but he turned it down, apparently unwilling to move from his native north of England.
Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about
offering such incentives, whether his
jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage
is, whether the mayor
is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the
first «tangible» product of the task force will
be.
Job fairs are a great place to look for introductions and professional connections — networking activities that will serve you for a lifetime beyond that first job interview and off
Job fairs
are a great place to look for introductions and professional connections — networking activities that will serve you for a lifetime beyond that
first job interview and off
job interview and
offer.
Although I have never lost a
job over these types of prejudices, I
'm quite certain that I've not
been offered jobs in the
first place for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with my credentials or ability.
But he
offers a reason that rarely appears in this discussion: «Those with the skills mentioned in this article could easily ask for several times that compensation in a
first - year industry
job, and would find themselves working on interesting problems in a setting where their computational skills
are utilized and valued.»
So I
was pleased when my wife
was offered the
first faculty
job she applied for, right out of grad school.
With my background, finding a
job was not so difficult: IMH Venture, one of the leading venture capital companies in Germany,
was the
first firm I applied to and they
offered me a position.
But her
job search, which she started 6 months before defending her thesis,
was disheartening: There
was intense competition for every position she applied for, and at
first she received no
offers.
It seemed to me that the large companies
were the «
first offer» type, and the smaller biotechnology companies wanted to negotiate with their
job candidates.
If you
're asked about the salary that you'd prefer if the
job were offered to you, avoid answering with a number if you can — the old negotiation expression «He who speaks a number
first, loses» definitely applies here.
... The
first thing you do when you see a
job offer is to phone up the head of the search committee and talk to them.
I
was young and I didn't question falling into the
first decent
job I
was offered.
Tricia Prickett, while at the University of Toledo in Ohio, found that untrained observers who watched a video of the
first 20 to 30 seconds of a
job interview
were astonishingly accurate at predicting whether the applicant would
be offered the
job.
While it
is certainly true that the technical skills you bring to an employer will
be among their major considerations in
offering you a
job, there
is something else that you'll need
first.
In 1978 Nancy Roman, the
first chief scientist for what
was then called the Space Telescope and NASA's
first chief of astronomy,
offered Weiler a
job.
This
first one
is by far the most obvious: If you have a better
job offer waiting for you, then by all means, you shouldn't feel guilty about bidding your current role adieu.
The
first two
jobs I got out of college I took the very
first salary that I
was offered.
Tom Solomon (Segel) has just proposed to his girlfriend Violet (Emily Blunt) one year after they
first met on New Year
's Eve, but before they can get married, she
's offered a
job at the University of Michigan, putting their wedding plans on hold and forcing Tom to give up his flourishing career as a chef.
Update: Two weeks after this news
first broke, Variety reports that Foley has
been officially
offered the
job directing Fifty Shades Darker.
The
first trailer didn't do a very good
job of showcasing everything the film has to
offer (focusing mainly on the budding relationship between the title character and his pupil's sister), but the cast
is great and Steven Soderbergh
is usually reliable.
The only reason we could imagine you wanting to make use of this, though,
is if you
were looking to get through your
first season or two as quickly as possible in the hope that you will receive a
job offer from your favorite club.
George
is offered a
job in Atlanta by his successful brother Rick (played by Ken Marino, who
is also a co-writer), who
is also
first - class jerk.