Sentences with phrase «land yourself a job»

A city's unemployment rate isn't the only factor that affects your ability to land a job, of course.

A National Association of Colleges and Employers survey found that unpaid interns were no better at landing job offers than those who did no internship; and unpaid interns were paid an average $ 1,366 less in their first job than students who started cold.

Lee - Chin, a civil engineer by trade, landed a job as a financial adviser in 1977 after struggling to find work in his field.

Each time one of CGE's students lands a job at, say, a hotel, CGE earns a fee from that hotel.

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.

Millennial entrepreneurs can become disillusioned when they see friends land jobs with salaries that allow them to pay down student loans or take exciting vacations.

But when it came to choosing an MBA, she made her choice based on the best possible option for landing a job.

To land a job at Version One Ventures, Angela Tran Kingyens had to complete an assignment.

After graduating from Toronto's Ryerson University in 2006, she landed a job in her field straight away, managing accounts for a large packaging firm.

She credits her specialized study with helping her land a job before graduation as a real estate analyst at TD.

There aren't really hard - and - fast rules for landing the job you want — if it were that easy, everyone would already have the career they dream of.

Analysts argue that Germany will fight to get the top role at the ECB as it needs to restore credibility among its voters and they believe its own central bank governor, Jens Weidmann, will land the job.

The benefits used in the calculation assume that the immigrant will have a 100 % chance of landing a job at the going wage.

I landed a job with Internet Broadcasting as the director of regional sales before starting TextingForward.com, LLC.

There's a reason you're not getting hired, according to David Baszucki, a Silicon Valley CEO who says he seldom sees people doing what it takes to land the job they want.

Be warned — you won't need a relevant degree, but you will be tested on the specific skills you need before landing a job, Haller says.

You're five times more likely to land a job interview if you submit your application before 10 a.m. Your chances decrease by 10 percent every half hour.

She landed a job as the assistant to Vogue magazine's esteemed food critic, Jeffrey Steingarten.

In 1975, Doug Oberhelman landed a job in the Caterpillar treasury department, with the goal of paying off his car and student loans.

After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1960, Jack Welsh Jr. landed a job as a chemical engineer in the Plastics division of General Electric.

A few months later, he landed a job in New York City as a studio facility supervisor for ABC — Disney bought the network in 1996 — and the rest is history.

A year ago, he moved to Prague where his wife landed a job as a diplomat, and found he had far too much time on his hands.

Shen studied biology in college but, after being rejected by Google and other companies, went on to land a job as product manager at Etsy.

Not everyone wants to create her own startup, and landing a job at a one can be difficult.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms.

But the network he built while working on the energy file — including prominent lawyer Purdy Crawford and Brian Levitt, now TD's chairman — landed him a job with Merrill Lynch.

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Following a 10 - year stint in the Navy, he landed a job as a manager trainee in 1971.

Today, Udacity has 25,000 students enrolled in its nanodegree programs and says more than 1,000 alumni have landed jobs relevant to their nanodegree program.

Pearson began his career as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., where he worked for 23 years, having landed a job with the prestigious firm right after graduating from his MBA program at the University of Virginia.

So when he landed a job at Banker's Trust, he felt «lucky.»

After members of an a cappella group struggle to land jobs in the music industry, they reunite for a chance to perform again.

As a result, Hwang's creativity landed her the job.

JT felt hopeful about his chances of landing a job at Facebook.

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.

In this space, you'll want to focus on the skills that are most impressive to the employer you're hoping to land a job with.

At eCompany Inc., a software firm at which Maiffret was hoping to land a job, CEO Firas Bushnaq invited the brash teen to try to hack into the company's computers.

Then they came for those who had gamed the student visa system to get permanent residency, and I felt a twinge of guilt about Rajiv, who I used to go drinking with before I landed my job at Megabank Inc..

It took Marianna Zanetti a full year after graduation before landing a job at exactly the same salary she was earning three years earlier without an MBA.

Yet, Joe Mihalic, then 26, was able to land a job with Dell (DELL) in Austin, Texas, at twice as much as the $ 52,000 a year he made before earning his MBA.

But there are some words that won't help you strike the notice of a recruiter, score an interview or land a job.

Some 95 % of the class of 2010 landed jobs three months after graduation.

On that day, she walked away victorious, eventually landing a job with Microsoft shortly after leaving the prison's walls.

From there, she freelanced for Report on Business magazine before landing a job at The Financial Post.

I was a public affairs Marine, yeah, a POG and a short - timer, who somehow got it into his head that four years writing glorified propaganda would land me a job as a civilian journalist.

Feed Google the right search keywords in the right order at the right moment and you just might land a job at the tech giant.

After graduation, he landed jobs at prominent tech startups like Foursquare and Twitter (twtr).

Students know that they need an advanced degree or at least a bachelors degree to land a job at one of today's dream companies.

But if these candidates hope to be taken seriously and land the job, they'll need to prove they've got what it takes to deal with frustrated customers.

Here are the top five things I've learned about landing a job in the cannabis world: