Sentences with phrase «from work backgrounds»

A majority of the company's experienced engineers come from work backgrounds at Google, Amazon, Spotify, Etsy, Meetup, and other big names in the tech world.

Both dogs come from a working background with some pretty impressive lineage; the Labrador retriever hails from 19th century Newfoundland where he was used by fishermen to haul nets, ropes and pull in fish.

Not exact matches

«We've been working from the beginning to bring unique backgrounds and perspectives to the main stage, and are thrilled to deliver on that mission,» said Sandra Toms, vice president and curator of the RSA conference.

When I started working on this stuff the biggest challenge that I had was that I didn't come from a university setting or research background or a corporate setting.

If you're working on a transition to CEO, you'd also be wise to find a mentor who is a CEO, ideally one who didn't come from a sales background.

Franchisees come from all different professional backgrounds including working for Fortune 500 companies, for the military, as multi-concept franchise owners looking to expand their business profile and as people looking for an active retirement plan.

Each one comes from a different background, and has a different priority when working with entrepreneurs.

Employees say: «Deloitte is a great place to work because you are surrounded with bright and intelligent individuals from all different types of cultural and educational backgrounds.

Tiet and his team (two male, two female) all come from social work backgrounds — and met and worked together at the U.N, he says.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

Through my work with AlleyNYC I have seen all types of people, from all different backgrounds work with each other.

These top one percentile firms receive the best deal flow which comes down to having a team of partners who hail from entrepreneurial backgrounds, being ex-founder's matched by functional experts, who work tirelessly to grow their ecosystem and specifically their portfolio companies.

You have to work to maintain an environment hospitable to employees coming from a variety of backgrounds.

«I'm assuming that because they're coming from a similar background and will want to make it work, that [the dispute process] won't in practice often be triggered as much as it could possibly be,» Peers said.

On Forbes, Kare Anderson has drawn on her personal experience navigating a fraught but ultimately successful project with a very diverse team to offer tips to those working with colleagues from very different backgrounds, while Management Today has rounded up advice for managers overseeing these sorts of diverse work groups.

It should work in the background and not stop those you want from getting through to you.

You want to make sure people working on automated solutions for content are not just all from one cultural background.»

People are generally happy to work there, they come from diverse backgrounds, and almost always have an interesting story to share.

As an African - American man from a low - income socioeconomic background who moved a lot during his childhood, Sueing says he acquired a self - starting, strong work ethic.

My Rotman Executive MBA class was a diverse group of forward - thinking, hard - working individuals from surprising backgrounds: in a team of doctors, lawyers, general managers, senior executives, financial whizzes and real estate directors, we also had musicians, artists and educators.

The Ted Rogers Leadership Centre brings together scholars, students, and business leaders from a range of backgrounds to work together to develop insight into ethical leadership theory and practice.

Eva Wong, Chief Operating Officer at Borrowell details how she met her co-founder and why their partnership works even though her background is very different from the consumer financial sector.

Using his publishing background to tap into what readers would like to read — with absolutely no guidance from me — he created several columns that helped to highlight [our] authors and services... I can not recommend Shel Horowitz highly enough and he continues to do work for me to this day.

A stream of research that is particularly developed among organization scholars has argued that collective work is more creative because it can involve individuals from different backgrounds and these divergent origins may inspire the collaborators and push them to make better decisions.

This shows that the broker is extremely dedicated to working with all types of traders, from beginners to novice, to those serious about trading, to those who are just dabbling in binary options, and to those traders from all financial backgrounds.

In fact, one of the most surprising aspects I learned about financial advisers while working for a Wall Street firm back in the day was the enormously diversified pool of educational and professional backgrounds from which managers plucked their team of financial advisers.

With a diverse background ranging from management consulting to the circus, he has spent his career working with individuals and companies to improve performance.

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In this podcast Simon King talks to Peter about his journey to working in Venture Capital from a background in physical sciences and academia, via Africa.

You'll benefit from working closely with experts from a variety of backgrounds, all of whom have successfully taken companies to global scale.

The best thing about being a part of a global network of employees is that you will get a broader perspective on topics, leverage knowledge from people with different backgrounds and work on projects involving so many countries in addition to the one you are seeing every day.

Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams.

Its CEO has less than four years of professional work experience and a non-technical background (she has an MA in business management and dual BAs in Africana studies / Spanish), and is running a company whose market cap went from $ 7.2 m to $ 60m in a single month, despite not having a finished product or revenue, much less profit.

Justice Secretary Liz Truss said: «Part of building a fair justice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in Britain.

Those of us who come from the background you and I do are often caught in that trap, but faith and works are married in spite of what we have made of Luther.

It's good that you added your background here to note your theological distance from Tony despite close working proximity at times.

He comes from the background of a religious home; he is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life; he is sensitive to spiritual values; and he seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

Some, taking their cue from Max Weber and R. H. Tawney, see our work ethic as stemming from our Puritan background.

One of them is his own self - effacement that led him to shy from the limelight and work modestly and humbly in the background.

There is a small community of Muslim background believers — Christians from Muslim families — as well in Egypt, and that's a community that Open Doors also works with, although we are also very involved with the Coptic church.

A couple weeks ago, Heineken released a long - form commercial that paired people from different backgrounds and belief - systems together to work on a project.

I'm in the military and I see people enjoying the company of people from many different backgrounds and ethinicities at work, ceremonies, office parties and even recreational outtings.

Jim came from a Scottish working - class background and was the son of devout Roman Catholic parents.

I think back on the disciples — they all came from such disparate backgrounds that I find it a miracle they were able to not work together with only one known disciple leaving the bunch.

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

What's so wrong with picking and choosing certain ideas from multiple different backgrounds and sources to create a set of principles and doctrines that works for you individually or your small community of spiritual colleagues?

(ENTIRE BOOK) The fictional character of Ted Brown represents a young man who comes from a religious background, who is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life, is sensitive to spiritual values, and who seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

Such background information may help us to appreciate the extent of the struggle the idea of revelation in Catholic theology has undergone in order eventually to be liberated, especially through the work of the Second Vatican Council, from association with theological schemes that tended to narrow its meaning unnecessarily.

All marriages are «mixed marriages» (in that all couples come from differing family backgrounds and world - views); but when there are deep disagreements about the core meanings of existence, a couple must work doubly hard to establish creative closeness.

Edouard Harmouche, who is of French / Lebanese family background, has recently retired from working for the United Nations.