Sentences with phrase «job time spent»

And, they welcome off - the - job time spent for volunteer endeavors.

Not exact matches

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.

The constant pressure of running an efficient business and the emotional exhaustion of time spent on the job puts entrepreneurs at risk for serious mental health issues.

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.

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.

I quit my job, spent time with my dad, who'd had a stroke, and went back to school for business and environmental studies.»

This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

Apprentices spend the majority of their time shadowing a fully qualified professional or «journeyperson» on the job, and supplement their practical learning with classroom studies at a union training centre or college campus.

If employees are completing all of their work on schedule despite spending half their workday wasting time, it might be smart to add more duties to their job descriptions.

A good job could be a great job if you spend a little more time thinking through the whole process.

What has not been tried enough is to create highly scalable companies that help remedy the problem of exclusion from the job marketplace,» he said, referring to time spent with the NAACP.

That means a lot of first days on the jobs, and lot of time and money to spend while new staffers get up to speed.

Until October 2009, Harmon worked full - time at another job while spending his nights exploring new ways of selling the obscure tongue brush.

«We try to shift the focus onto strengths and spend more of our time identifying what people are good at and finding jobs for them that play to their strengths.»

The only time I've had a job that did was when I had to do little work so that I had time on the side to either write, or start a business, or have fun, or spend time with friends.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Any CEO at this stage who spends too much time in one or two functional roles - such as sales or marketing - is undermining his executives and not doing his own job effectively.

Carefully consider what you could be doing with your business if you were not spending time on the job.

«I'm here because I wasn't lucky and I didn't have someone to do this job,» he says, sounding a little put out that he has to spend time overlooking a snowy parking lot in Deerfield when he could be doing deals.

To further motivate people to spend time identifying creative ideas, small businesses can emphasize innovation by making it part of the company's job descriptions and evaluation criteria.

But you're far more likely to find engaged, productive employees who love their jobs, do great work and spend almost no time trawling LinkedIn.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

In the best companies, people don't come for the job, they come to be part of the vision and to spend their time in a place that values and appreciates them doing work that makes a difference.

His wife had just given birth to a baby girl — their first child — and he knew he wanted to take a few months off from his job as an IT manager to spend some time at home.

How to Conduct a Job Interview: Know What You're After Before you start searching for the perfect candidate, you need to spend some time thinking about the jJob Interview: Know What You're After Before you start searching for the perfect candidate, you need to spend some time thinking about the jobjob.

At my desk job, about 50 % of my time was spent gallivanting and avoiding work.

After spending just a few months working in his first full - time position out of college, Sam realized that he didn't want a safe nine - to - five job with a 401 (k), good health insurance, and a few annual days of PTO.

I spent a lot of time sending him emails and getting coffee with him before ever getting the job.

Instead, he split his time between studying for his economics and finance classes and spending 10 to 15 hours each week on the internship and job hunt.

The more time we spend holding ourselves accountable for doing our jobs, achieving our goals, and supporting our team members, the less time we have to spend holding other accountable.

Customers can sense when employees are having fun and enjoying their jobs — and this attitude is contagious, which hopefully causes customers to spend much more time shopping.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

I had financial security, the ability to take the time off I needed, and a job that I did not just believe in, but where it's actually OK to spend all day on Facebook.

As for buybacks: «Over the 2008 - 2016 period, the top ten job - cutters in our sample each spent an average of $ 45.5 billion repurchasing their own stock, six times as much as the S&P 500 average of $ 7.4 billion,» said the report.

He spent some time using the new MRI with a technologist, and by the time Dietz was done speaking with her, he was thoroughly convinced that he and his team had done a great design job.

Horowitz, who spends much of his time mentoring young leaders, says that most important job for a CEO is to architect the way people communicate in a company.

While Fredette's job isn't always glamorous (it involves frequent meetings with the company's marketing and consumer research departments), more than 50 % of his time is spent in the kitchen, where he experiments with flavor pairings, makes ingredients, develops recipes, mixes test batches, and yes — eats a lot of ice cream.

It's not enough to «find» time to spend with your children, because the job will always find a way to fill every minute.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

I just felt that, if you were going to spend a majority of your time doing a job, why couldn't you have fun at it?

Kazakoff, without missing a beat, advised, «If you have a job right now and you're thinking you want to spend cash as fast as you can and spend no time at all with your family, the executive MBA is for you and all it's going to cost you is $ 150,000.»

Most of the overworked employees are white - collar workers, and hours spent at their jobs are often not monitored by time clocks.

The study also showed that time spent on social media sites is more for personal reasons than for job - related activities, with less than 7 percent of respondents indicating they use social media exclusively for work purposes.

But really, selling is the sales rep's job, and whatever time is spent updating a CRM system is time away from selling.

A three - time community - college dropout, he spent most of his early twenties working odd jobs, hanging out with his friends at a nearby lake, and generally goofing off.

«I think those job candidates are spending more time on Facebook and looking for jobs there.»

The good news is that while hiring someone like Weiss can save you or your employees from spending the time to conduct research on your competitors, you can also employ several techniques to get the job done virtually for free.

The latter involves spending more time with fewer candidates focusing on their past performance, their upside potential and ensuring their intrinsic motivators map to the real job.

«Turning highly sought - after entry level management careers into hourly jobs where employees punch a clock and are compensated for time spent rather than time well spent is hardly an improvement on the path from the working class to the middle class.»

As a career coach, I spend a lot of time working with professionals to make the jump from one role to another, offering advice and guidance across all parts of the job search.