Sentences with phrase «first year jobs»

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And, that could be anything from, are there other people from the university that I attend who work here, could I talk to them, to what does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to how long do people stay in this office?

Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra - Lee Furness, who's 13 years his senior, met on the set of his first job in 1995.

EBRI found that 46 % of retirees spend at a faster rate in the first two years after leaving their jobs than they did before retiring.

Even if you spent your latter years of college grooming your network and making good business connections, you can't expect your first freelancing jobs to come to you.

In first promise of the official 2015 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.

A few years after his first foray into illicit home brewing, Hindy's wife grew fed up with him working in the line of fire, so he came home and took a job with Newsday.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

For the first year, the duo kept their day jobs (both worked at Clarity Systems), putting their energy into refining their product and strategy rather than attracting resources.

After that first year where I made the game that didn't do very well, I actually tried to get a job in a triple - A game company and they didn't hire me, which I think was a good decision on everyone's part.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

I'd been at my first job a year when my arch-rival was hired; he began stepping on my toes during his first week.

Yasir Moore, a 15 - year - old boy from Raleigh, North Carolina, had landed an interview at a Chick - fil - A for his first job.

The researchers deliberately chose topics that were polarizing — the «surge» strategy of sending more U.S. troops into Iraq, and job growth during Obama's first year in office.

Last year he shared his career - transformation experience online — «How I got my first Valley - based product - management job in five weeks» — which has gotten him thinking about his personal brand.

My undergrad degree had been in journalism, which was the job I had for the first 10 years of my career.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

«When CGI was first invented we all thought we're not going to have a job in five years,» Corbould said.

For her very first job, and then 13 - year - old Markle sold frozen yogurt at a California shop called Humphrey Yogart.

The topic came to mind when I read today's story about how the salary of the CEO of Canada's biggest banks, RBC, had gone up 44 % to $ 10.9 million during his first year on the job.

This is especially impressive since his first job with the company was an hourly gig loading trucks at a distribution center during his teenage years.

Even Lego, which has posted years of growth, said in September that sales of its colorful bricks fell for the first time in 13 years, and announced plans to cut 1,400 jobs.

The JOBS Act, which offers the first changes to securities law in more than 80 years, enables a new equity - crowdfunding model that allows backers to buy shares in posted ventures.

Questions swirled around Wheeler's lobbying past when he was first given the job last year; will anyone trust him now after his wrong - headed (and bull - headed) championing of a potentially devastating policy?

In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 2017.

The social media giant has a particularly robust and perk - laden program, earning it first place on last year's internship ranking from job site Glassdoor.

So my first marketing job really was about seven years ago, and I grew my marketing chops at my previous job under the tutelage of a person I think is a great CMO, Connie Weaver.

For example, during Nike's first five years, Knight had to work full time at another job.

But many of the people who had been at Rent the Runway for years weren't capable of moving it forward, she felt, because Rent the Runway had been their first job.

«We look very different today than five years ago — for example, clinical and technology professionals are the first and third largest job categories across UnitedHealth Group — and we will look different again five years from now as we continue to evolve at an accelerated pace,» UnitedHealth CEO David Wichmann said on the company's first - quarter conference call.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

«Don't quit your day job,» Daymond John, founder of FUBU and one of the most iconic Sharks on Shark Tank, told Inc.com recently, recounting that for the first five years he ran his company, he was supporting himself by working full - time as a waiter at Red Lobster.

Freelance job sites are booming, too: Elance.com had postings jump 40 percent in the first half of this year, while Guru.com saw its total membership grow by 15 % over the year before.

Years ago in my first real job out of college, I was delighted to have my very own assistant.

«I got my first job out of college just over a year ago, and I've spent a lot of time reading finance materials.

As a 24 - year - old woman starting her first full - time job, there is still a lot I have to learn about time management and budgeting.

That same year, Melania Trump shared her parenting philosophy with Parenting.com: «I am a full time mom; that is my first job.

You may not want to work in retirement, but taking on a part - time job the first few years so you can delay claiming Social Security benefits could significantly boost the benefit you receive.

When they first stumbled upon the plan, which allows approved employees to set aside part of their salaries to fund an extended leave of absence from their jobs, the Wheelers planned to take a year - long round - the - world - trip.

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Wing's first leader was famed MIT robotics scientist Nick Roy, who worked there during a two - year sabbatical and then went back to his tenured job at MIT.

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Within the first two years of my job, two of the seven investments that I led were sold — GroupMe to Skype for about $ 70 million and SinglePlatform to Constant Contact (CTCT) for a reported $ 100 million.

«Any job where you get the majority of your training in school and the first few years of your career is not going to see much pay growth after that,» says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at PayScale.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

I didn't congratulate him for his first year in office or anything else but that I believe was a job well done,» Kaeser said.

The number of jobs statewide dropped by nearly 1,500 during just the first three months of that year, or 17.9 percent, leaving an estimated 6,900 employees in the industry.

Actually, I was offered a job the Monday after Thanksgiving and was told to report for work after the first of the year.

For example, Houston home prices didn't really crater until late 1987, even though the job market plummeted a year earlier and oil prices recorded their biggest year - over-year decline in 1986's first half.

Way too many 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 year olds who follow me on Instagram think that their first job during college, or out of college, or as they're coming up, is to learn how to raise capital.

Meanwhile, TD Bank's (TSX: TD) Bharat Masrani received $ 9 million in total direct compensation during his first full year in the top job — an increase of 10 per cent from the previous year.