Sentences with phrase «many past experiences»

Check their references, ask other founders about their past experiences and find someone who has specific knowledge about your niche situation.

As the company tries to attract new advertisers and venues, the Silvermans have learned the importance of trial and error and reflecting on past experiences.

If I talk about selling, persuading and negotiating, you may get an image of a past experience or something you were told about salespeople that would take you out of the present conversation.

Michael Todd, co-founder and CTO of Victorious, is a perfect example of someone who impresses with his ability to leverage past experiences.

While that looks expensive based on past experience, if rates stay low for long, then it's easier to justify paying that kind of price.

By focusing on your past experiences, you are in effect trying to circle back to the why behind your company's existence.

Your mentor will help ensure you're headed in the right direction based on past experience.

If Feldstein's past experience is any guide, he'll have to pursue insurance companies for payment in some cases.

But there's a reason you hired each of them, and the vast majority of the time their past experiences were an important factor.

Rooted in cultural inequities and beliefs connected to hurtful past experiences, the Imposter Syndrome embeds untruths that can cripple even the strongest among us.

«The value of my past experience was primarily in identifying an opportunity, correctly targeting the decision maker, pitching the idea, and then delivering the goods.»

It is only when they let go of past experiences or mistakes that they can actually move forward.

The survey didn't delve into the reasons why bookkeeping tasks gets no love, but I can fill in some of the blanks from past experience.

Finally, in the business of entrepreneurship, past experience is particularly helpful, since building a business is an art.

This will build value in your past experience, and positions you as the expert in an acceptable way.

Fixated thoughts, past experiences (whether successes or failures) and rigid ideas act as boulders in this river, damming it up.

If past experience is anything to go by, their predictions might not be too far off the mark either.

So, when managing Facebook — and recruiting for talent to bring to the team — she looks for people who have more natural demonstrated skill than simply an arsenal of past experience.

An individual's past experiences with money are what shape these attitudes, which then inform their financial decisions and behavior throughout their life.

Another advantage of behavioral interviewing is that because the answers are based on actual past experience, they can be double - checked.

The usage of a specific color should take advantage of our past experiences and rely on our existing associations and most importantly, be congruent with the product.

And, if past experiences are any indication, when Hari wants a restaurant to make changes, she will do whatever it takes to make it happen.

You don't learn from past experience; you can't empathize.

One other notable feature of Poloz's first appearance, according to TD chief deputy economist Derek Burleton, was a downplaying of any speculation he'll be looking to target a lower Canadian dollar, given Poloz's past experience with Export Development Canada.

At our moving company, we surveyed more than 5,000 clients nationwide about their past experiences with professional movers, asking what actions would have improved those situations.

It's always critical to revisit your value propositions and the new assets you have which consistently brings clients in based on your past experiences.

Schools change their essay questions every year, but you can generally expect to be asked about why you want to pursue an MBA and how your past experiences will contribute to your future.

In fact, in times of rapid change, your past experience may be your worst enemy.

Your past experience may help you anticipate which challenges you will face, or this may be a completely new game to you.

To ease a prospective employer's concern about your fit for a job that differs from your past experience, Shand suggests offering to structure an employment contract with built - in pay - for - performance metrics.

Mental models are based on incomplete facts, past experiences, and even intuitive perceptions.

Overcoming challenges, honing skills, and learning from past experiences are all crucial parts of the playbook that you can apply in your future career.

Businesses that don't operate from a base of trust, respect, and partnership are miserable places to work — we know this all too well from past experience.

They blame genetics, personality or past experiences.

If past experience is a guide, most of us will never actually try to get a new venture off the ground.

«I ask them about their past experience managing tricky situations with peers, and I've found that those with stronger soft skills have deeper perspectives on what to do and why.»

You know, based on your past experiences with them, whether they'd be a good fit for your company.

He listed «previous research on behavioral econ with Capuchin monkeys,» as past experience relevant to his current work.

His dismissiveness of such rule - making agencies may have been supercharged by past experience.

Start by reassessing past experiences during high stake conversations, and ask yourself, «what would I do differently?»

If past experience is any guide, they're right.

Add only skills that you think will actually be useful to emphasize, such as bilingualism, or expertise in a field that wouldn't otherwise be indicated in your past experience.

The results were the same: Positive fantasies, wishes and dreams — detached from an assessment of past experience — didn't translate into motivation.

Explain why your academic skills, past experiences or passion make you stand out from all of the other intern applicants.

My manager asked me recently why I don't like to share my personal life, and I gave him an honest answer (i.e., bad past experiences, unfair judgments against me, etc.), and I have the feeling that he thinks I'm weird.

As adults we use our education and past experiences to solve the problems we face rather than relying on questions.

The term «thought leader» gets bandied about freely nowadays, and as a result has lost some of its value, but if you take the time to comment on industry trends and share past experiences, the value generated for your company will be more than just a few clicks to your website.

Instead, you'd be better off probing into their past experiences — what have they done successfully in the past that's hard?

While the previous man, portrayed by Goldsmith, was seen reflecting on past experiences from the corners of a dark bar with a bevy of beautiful women on his arms, Legrand will be more of an action hero — whether it's chopping a coconut in half with his bare hand, running down a street clutching a pig or retrieving a soccer ball from inside a well.

To do so, the hiring manager interprets the value of past experience and education and imagines how that might apply to the open job position.