Sentences with phrase «getting unpaid work»

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I had to start right at the bottom, working as an unpaid intern for a year, before finally getting the chance to be a paid intern, and then eventually, got a real job.

In related news: a survey of full - time working mothers and mommy bloggers conducted by a thermometer maker found that when their children got sick, 33 % of moms pretended to be sick so they could stay home with their child, 62 % of them called on parents or in - laws for child care, 57 % of them took unpaid leave to care for their child, and a distressing 34 % of them took the kid to school or day care anyway — where they could infect your child.

Again, I explained that what I actually needed to do was get back to work because I was on unpaid maternity leave and the electric company couldn't have cared less about my new bundle of joy.

If the state workers who work for their paycheck have to take an unpaid furlough, why don't those who don't work and get paid?

«I'm incredibly thankful for our grassroots support — and to our staff, unpaid interns and volunteers for working so hard to get our campaign on the ballot, gathering more than 7,250 signatures and ensuring that after 18 years, voters will finally have a choice in this election,» Saujani said in a press release.

«We would like the government to now look at more ways in which communities themselves can get involved in community sentencing, for example in helping to identify what kind of unpaid work particular areas require,» she added.

Yesterday David Cameron said unemployed young people would be forced to do six months unpaid community work to get their benefits.

So you've got a choice, you can either pay for the return bus home and come back at six, that'll cost you around an hour's pay — or sit around at the back of the restaurant unpaid until work picks up again.

Tedra Cobb got 5000 signatures with unpaid, instate volunteers because she has been working with quiet determination for months with communities throughout this huge district.

Human rights forensics remains more an avocation than a vocation; Haglund himself got his start working during vacations, and even today most of the people who do this work do it on the side, either as paid consultants or, more often, as unpaid volunteers.

Our internship program is unpaid; although, we offer students with the opportunity to get hands - on experience on what it's like to work in the real world of specialty retail.

And get as much experience as possible, even if that means taking an unpaid internship and working a side job to make ends meet.

Watch millions more teachers leave as the government squeezes to get even more unpaid work out of a drained workforce.

Every day that car needs fixed and can't get you to work, bank fees pile up or that unpaid bill gains interest is more money out of your pocket.

We will work to get paid / unpaid collections, charge - offs, judgements, federal & state tax liens, repossessions, late pays, bankruptcies and more OFF of your credit reports.

This internship is part of the program and is unpaid, but you are getting the valuable experience you will need to work in the diving industry.

For many people, some major factors holding them back from traveling are being unable to get off work and the lack of income that would result from an unpaid vacation.

Also, as with the so - called scandal of the CRU emails and FOI requests, no allowance is made for the facts that (a) climate science isn't getting adequate funding, reducing the number of scientists who can afford to do it full time and not work on other projects and (b) involvement in the IPCC is on a volunteer basis, so it's extra, unpaid work that not even every working full - time climate scientist can afford.

Our employment lawyers help injured oilfield workers get the compensation they need after getting hurt at work, but also fight for unpaid overtime and work discrimination claims on behalf of retail workers, managers, fast food workers, call center employees, and for workers misclassified as contractors.

Most law students don't get their post-grad jobs based on their transcripts but through their work experiences in law school, both paid and unpaid, and through the connections they make at networking events at school and through recommendations from employers.

As reported in a 2014 study on the health impacts of such work on racialized, immigrant women in the Greater Toronto Area, «temporary and on - call agency work seemed to be the new norm in both the private and non-profit health and social services agencies... Working precariously meant not just fewer hours and lower wages, but included the quality of work, the differential treatment being an agency worker; and the «invisible» and «unpaid» time and energy spent in - between and in getting from one job site to another...»

Would those benchers who have investor - clients be working merely the alleged 31 days a year bencher - average of unpaid labour to get that approval?

For some students (and employment industries), it's often an accepted norm that you will undertake unpaid work experience in order to get experience.

Commercially minded graduates who can stay two steps ahead of consumer trends will thrive in this competitive area of retail — but be ready to do unpaid work experience or further study to get ahead.

Getting the right razzle dazzle in your cover letter is a lot of work, but this effort never goes unpaid.

The functional resume thus offers advantage to the jobseeker with little or no work experience in that it allows the jobseeker to list skills gotten from school as well as those gotten from internship, hobbies — either paid or unpaid — which can be transferred to the workplace.

You can also get experience in a hospital pharmacy, although this may be unpaid work shadowing and last from a few days to a few weeks.

I am just wondering if you agree with this advice, which includes unpaid internships and per - project contract work, on the basis that getting a foot in the door of a company is going to be extremely difficult unless you have a champion on the inside.

I have developed a great rapport with all top insurance companies in the state, which is why it is a piece of cake for me to work with them in order to determine statuses of claims, and get unpaid claims paid in a jiffy.

No matter what your initial reason was for leaving your previous job, you can easily fill the gap with any volunteer work, consulting, or unpaid experience you got.

People are getting laid off from their jobs - more than 1.2 Some newer professionals are taking unpaid internships just to stay in the working world and in the hope that they might turn into paying jobs.

While the position is considered unpaid, you will get the chance to earn while working during the actual filming process.

There was a time when the only people who sought out unpaid internships were students who wanted to gain valuable work experience and were willing to forgo a salary to get it.