Sentences with phrase «graduates held jobs»

For the class of 2008, 75 % of law school graduates held jobs that required a law degree.

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His father Fred never graduated from high school and held a series of blue - collar jobs including truck driver, factory worker and cab driver.

Whereas most graduate students have already held down full time jobs in a particular field, undergraduates are usually less experienced when it comes to the working world.

At Bentley University, this summer marks the school's first Job Boot Camp for graduates, a four - day intensive workshop held a few weeks after graduation aimed at making sure students land jobs.

She graduated from Harvard University, did a stint as a consultant, held management jobs at Louis Vuitton and Hugo Boss and started on an MBA from Columbia University.

report found people who graduated from college between 2001 and 2010 hold an average of three to four different jobs within the first 10 years of working.

The 29 - year - old Wolf began his radio career as an undergraduate at Northwestern, and after graduating in 1975, he continued to broadcast occasionally while holding down a newspaper job.

Or your preteen daughter seems unmotivated at school and fails Algebra, and you start wondering if she'll be able to graduate high school, or even hold a job some day.

Adam Skelos, according to news reports, is a Hofstra graduate who was once arrested on burglary charges involving a girlfriend and held a series of internships linked to his father and title company jobs in the 2000s.

This follows widely - held perception that majority of university graduates are not trained to suit the job market; leading to rising levels of graduate unemployment in the country.

Do these Ph.D. s hold jobs that call on their training and make it a worthwhile investment — both for the individual graduate and for the larger research enterprise, which uses public funding and invests significant effort in training them?

Isobel held several jobs after graduation from Oxford, all of them beneath her ability and credentials as a university graduate.

It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

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.

But because New Zealand originally lacked rats, which can spread seeds, Burns and his Victoria University colleagues Catherine Duthie, a graduate student, and George Gibbs wondered if the mouse - sized wetas had taken over the seed - dispersal job often held by these furry species.

Likewise, the share of the top quintile of STEM graduates still holding STEM jobs 10 years out of college dipped from 44.8 % in the 1977/87 cohort to 43.2 % in the 1993/03 cohort.

The 61 % that the 2014 SED report counted as employed is actually a composite of both those with a firm offer and those returning to a job they held before entering graduate school.

One day he graduated and realized that he could not give up writing about movies, even if he had to hold a day job to do it.

Graduated, holding down jobs they have no love for, the Barden Bellas dream of the days when they had the singing group.

Often subtly implemented to facilitate classroom management, avoid wholesale retentions, and reduce student dropout rates, social promotion has instead produced countless high school graduates unable to do college level work or even to hold entry - level jobs.

Strong regulation - related skills are often associated with stronger social - emotional competence and better mental health, as well as longer - term outcomes such as increased likelihood of graduating from a four - year college, holding a stable job, and not having a criminal record.

Easing the Teacher Shortage Compare these two jobs held by two young college graduates.

Graduates hold top jobs at the likes of Aetna, American Express, Coca - Cola, Delta and United airlines, JPMorgan Chase, Pfizer, and Toyota.

When they graduate, Turner Tech students are certified to hold jobs in specific careers and they possess the skills, knowledge, and experience necessary to obtain and keep those jobs.

Recruiting new college graduates for teaching positions made sense 40 years ago, when the typical graduate could expect to hold just five jobs in an entire career.

In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.

1986: «[T] ypical high school graduates in the class of 1987 - who will be only 31 years old in the year 2000 - will hold a variety of jobs and undergo many educational experiences in their lifetimes.

In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children... studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.

As teenagers, they both held full - time jobs to support their families, and although they deeply understood the value of an education, neither had the opportunity to graduate high school or go to college.

Obama said in the State of the Union, «Studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.

Students graduating in the next few years may freelance and never hold a long - term regular shift job.

When I graduated from Oxford I waitressed full — time while writing at night, so I know how hard it is to fulfill an artistic passion while holding down a day job.

When I graduated high school, not only did I have to hold down a job, I had to go to college and pay my very wealthy grandparents rent.

Yet, for graduates who earn a high income and hold a stable job, this may be an ideal option, that can help borrowers pay off their student loans.

I often tell people that I've never held a real job, and it's true; I've been slinging copy just like this post since the day I graduated college in 1997.

Colleges that can not employ graduates should be held accountable for repayment or not given funding until all of their graduates have jobs and the ability to pay their loans.

By holding colleges accountable for student loan defaults, colleges will be incentivized to ensure that students are able to get well - paying jobs once they graduate, but this could have unintended consequences.

Two years later, everyone else has the same graduate degrees, you still have no experience (you have to keep your grades up at all costs, and working in a PhD lab is a full - time job in itself), competition is fiercer than ever, jobs have been outsourced (even in STEM), and you're also competing with visa - holding foreign workers in the US.

After graduating, she held various odd jobs, including working at Macy's in Atlanta in the men's section selling Tommy Hilfiger and Polo Ralph Lauren («five out of 10 transactions were theft - related»); chauffeuring the artist Sigmar Polke around Los Angeles; and, with fellow artists Sharon Lockhart and Marnie Weber, painting the walls of Mel Gibson's Malibu mansion to look faux - old.

I wonder if that is higher or lower percentage than the percentage of 2010 anthropology graduates who now hold a permanent, full - time job that actually requires an anthropology degree?

According to Adam Smith, Esq., NALP reports that the job market facing the law school Class of 2010 is the worst in decades, to the point that just 36 percent of all 2010 graduates held a permanent, full - time job that actually required the graduate to pass a state bar.

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

Such positions accounted for 16.2 % of law - firm jobs held by 2011 graduates.

There are either cases where couples meet in graduate school and hold lower - earning jobs, such as in academia or social work or journalism, where by necessity, both must continue to work after children are born.

As part of the White House's ongoing effort to build support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, a Harvard Law School assistant dean and graduates holding public interest jobs briefed the media Tuesday on Kagan's expansion of public service opportunities when she was dean.

It was especially designed for temporary workers who hold a skilled job in Québec or foreign students who graduated in Québec or are studying towards graduation.

Furthermore, these is a great deal of competition when it comes to recruiting the best of this year's graduating class, given that talent holds the reins in today's job market.

Sometimes people want to include every single job they've ever held since graduating college so as to show continuity, or that they've had a job continuously since university.

Three of the top four jobs held by graduates employed in the UK include, conference and exhibition manager and organiser, marketing associate professional and travel agent.

Comparing yourself with graduates can be intimidating, but if you can prove you're capable of the job, not having a degree won't hold you back