Sentences with phrase «job of getting a job»

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«I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working,» says Cuban, in an interview for a recent episode of the podcast «How I Built This.»

But Eric had fond memories of visiting Orcas Island, so when he was living in Delaware and got a call from a relative to come out for a construction job, he was enticed to go back.

Rate of annual job growth: 0.17 % St. Louis citizens enjoy an average commute of just about 11 minutes and pay about 32 % of their income toward getting around town.

Many candidates are prepared to talk about the high points of their career, but to get a full scope of how you will adjust to the job, hiring managers also want to see how you handle situations that don't go as planned.

I wrote a separate article on the topic of delegation where the simple rule is that if someone can do a job 70 % as good as you can, you should delegate it because you get 70 % of the output using almost none of your time.

Jeff Bezos is «proud» of this employee benefit A dream job that's all the rage across America 4 ways to get your ideas noticed by the C - suite

«Generally, when you are the basis for a platform, you don't want to scare away investment in your platform developers by competing with them... There is a vibrant ecosystem of game developers, headed by Zynga, who do a good job making successful social games already, and Facebook gets a cut of what those developers make, so there is currently no need for Facebook to step in and make games itself, either strategically or monetarily,» Hoskins recently explained via Quora.

«You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs,» Bush said.

«I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working,» says Cuban, in an interview for a recent episode of

The truth is that most of us are mere mortals and we don't need the newest and greatest anything — we just need something in our price range to get the job done.

Freelance work can allow them to get real world experience and earn some money until they land a full - time job, he said, although relying solely on that type of employment can also mean there's a lack of corporate identity — for the company as well as for the freelancers themselves.

That's a great way to get a sense for whether you'll fit in and get the kind of experience and have the sort of job that you're looking for.

U.S. welfare systems, Tanner says, tend to pull a person's benefits all at once as soon as they get a job — so much so that a person on welfare who gets a job will only see an increase of about five cents for every new dollar they earn from that job.

In fact, job search platform Glassdoor says one of the most popular interview questions that candidates can expect to be asked is, «What gets you up in the morning?»

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

One of the aspects that differentiates a job versus a career is when someone gets more excited about the time they spend outside the office.

Ultimately if you're seeking for approval or board consensus on an action (getting approval for a budget, raising money, investing in CAPEX, firing a head of sales — whatever) your job is to hold a discussion in which all board members who want to voice an opinion can do so and ultimately pushing for a vote or a resolution.

Design has changed over the last few yrs., and no longer is it enough to get jobs through word - of - mouth.

Non-productive meetings interrupt the flow of the day and we should all challenge the temptation to call a meeting rather than get on with the job in hand.

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

Maybe your awkward interview came in the form of a potential employer asking you about a skill set that wasn't outlined in the job description, or maybe your nerves simply got the best of you and you blanked on how to respond to a simple question.

They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

Not all of us are that honest - kind - of - guy who has no fear to straightly state his opinion and show appreciation when it comes to a well - done job, but being a leader is sometimes all about getting out of our comfort zone.

To get started, here's the story of Orcas Island Taxi, which Charles «Eric» Whitehead started after a construction job dried up.

Some of them got jobs, and a lot of them went successfully into treatment because if you're not spending all your time thinking about how you're going to pay for your next fix, you do have time to think about other things.

«I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working,» Cuban said in an episode of the podcast «How I Built This.»

The employees who still have jobs usually get the added workload of excised personnel, without a commensurate increase in salary, title or influence.

Steve Blank's first job in Silicon Valley: Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, recalls his first job in Silicon Valley and what he learned getting fired and rehired in the same day.

There are a many people coming out of law school who are finding it very hard to get a job at a decent law firm.

A way to get this straight in your mind is to take your job description, and match it to the persona of your ideal employee; the impact you want them to have on the business; and your own management style.

«If we get complaints about a manager, that manager has to go to each member of his team and say, «Listen, I can't stay here unless I do a better job of being your manager, so what am I doing wrong?»»

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

In a 2011 op - ed in The Wall Street Journal, President Obama acknowledged this problem, saying «sometimes, those rules have gotten out of balance, placing unreasonable burdens on business — burdens that have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs.»

Half the battle to getting a remote job is knowing where to look, and knowing the community of remote companies, but that's still not going to land you a job.

When I got a job at Barnes and Noble in high school, I used my discount to buy a bunch of copies to give as gifts.

Instead, you should focus on telling the applicants about the excitement and challenge of the job, the salary, what they will get out of it, and what it will be like working for you.

This isn't always a bad thing and it's part of the psychology — or pathology if you prefer — that also makes it possible for entrepreneurs to quickly get over their past hiccups and get on with their main job of making history and changing the world.

While new tech can help solve a lot of problems, it's important to realize that ultimately any new bells and whistles are just tools that help you get the job done more efficiently.

(See This isn't always a bad thing and it's part of the psychology — or pathology if you prefer — that also makes it possible for entrepreneurs to quickly get over their past hiccups and get on with their main job of making history and changing the world.

For example, if you're only hiring based on the skills of the job candidates, you're only getting half the picture.

From professional services like accounting, real estate, and insurance to simple job brokering (i.e. a head hunter), all you need is a phone and a list of names (which is also easy to get if you have access to your town or city's public property tax records).

When you «got so much money you should start a bank,» so much paper right in front of you it's hard to think, then you've got 99 problems and keeping your job ain't one.

This was during the early days of the internet, when AOL frequently needed to get parts to its engineers, but its logistics vendor was falling down on the job.

I remember all the hustle and grit of getting that first job.»

One of the biggest problems that nonprofit organizations have is finding enough people to get the job done.

«While I was running for mayor of Waterloo, going door - to - door and talking to people to get their trust was the most incredible job interview I've ever had.

«Parliament has today backed the government in its determination to get on with the job of leaving the E.U.,» said British Brexit secretary David Davis.

A 2016 survey by a national job portal found that more than 60 % of human resources personnel found that an applicant's appearance affected his or her chances at getting the job.