Sentences with phrase «of job points»

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The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

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.

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

This video does a pretty good job of outlining the main points, however:

Ali, moreover, points out that planners, because they work so often with members of the public, need to be versed not just in the technical elements of the job; they must also possess exemplary communications skills, and have to be able to respond to criticism or skepticism from residents.

The whole point of these tools is that they are supposed to make your job easier, not harder.

Her solution was to diversify: «I always made a point of keeping the networking up, volunteering and staying involved in the community, beyond my job,» she says.

Of course, no ranking can tell you the best job for you personally — but we can point you toward some intriguing opportunities.

As Factcheck.org has pointed out, there are no Lockheed Martin jobs «coming back» to the United States, but there are new jobs being created as part of a contract for more F - 35 planes.

Some professionals wear a heavy workload as a kind of badge of honor, considering it a point of pride or evidence of job security, but that isn't a valuable long - term strategy to deal with the increased load.

In the room were some 1,500 energy sector executives, most of them in a tetchy mood, given that oil was south of US$ 50 a barrel and over 35,000 Albertans had lost oilpatch jobs up to that point in 2015.

«We can't point to a lack of quality jobs,» BMO chief economist Douglas Porter wrote in a note this month.

To his point, nearly half (47 percent) of American jobs are at risk due to the threat of «computerization,» according to Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne.

That point isn't lost on Steve Roberson, the co-founder and technical lead of Start - Up Hire, a new job site for venture capital - backed companies.

His staff pointed to statistics encompassing seven months of job gains across the far broader mining sector.

The narrative reveals more about today's hyper - partisan discourse than about the reality of the new tax law, which is likely to affect jobs and the economy in important ways that don't fit either party's talking points.

The basics of a solid job description include title, to whom they report and a summary of the position and bullet - pointed specific job duties.

A leader's job description can seem like an ever - growing list of bullet points, but the priority for CEOs, CFOs and staff managers alike is always the same: leading their team.

The Survey of Consumer Finances reports that in 2010, just 35 percent of families held some sort of retirement account offered through a current or past job, down 2.9 percentage points from 2007.

Understanding the experience from the customer's point of view will give them great insight into their new jobs — and sometimes longtime employees might benefit from a refresher, too.

So, in addition to a summary of the position, detailed bullet points describing the job's main tasks and the minimum education and experience requirements, great listings incorporate behavioral characteristics.

Russell points to one of her clients who alerted her network about a month before her mini-retirement ended and began fielding job phone calls almost as soon as she stepped off the plane.

We hear so much about awful treatment of job - seekers, but let's be honest - the problem is just as bad from the recruiter's point of view.

The same could be said for Welter herself — her resumé is impeccable, full of the relevant experience, to the point where a coaching job at the sport's highest level made perfect sense.

At one point of the night, and many beers in, I joined Carl and a few bloggers on discussing what his life has been like since retiring from his job.

The point is that the single most important job any CEO of a growing company can perform is identifying the constraints that are keeping the organization from sprinting forward in the right direction and then allocating as much of their time as needed to remove them, thus freeing up space for the organization to perform more effectively.

How to Conduct a Job Interview: Ask the Right Questions By using the criteria you have decided on, you can form pointed questions that make the most of your time with the candidate.

(At one point, the elder sister mentions a documentary that compares P.J.'s succession woes to the story of Job in the Old Testament.

The firm uses millions of data points like job openings, resumes, and compensation to determine the market value of individual skills.

Analysts are currently calling for 140,000 new job's in the government's report this Friday, but the sum of the data in recent days is mixed at best as both ISM reports point to weak hiring, but this morning's data points to better than expected figures.

Eliminating the dull jobs, plus the dirty and dangerous ones, has in fact been the point behind the entire history of technology.

«If they've already done a job like this, what's the point of the test?

If you don't need your bed to be such a focal point of the room, this Murray Platform Bed with Wooden Box Frame will do the job of supporting your mattress, while staying out of the way.

You'll encourage a culture of empowerment by saying any job is here for the taking and simply pointing to the board when someone asks: Hey!

As psychologists have pointed out, traditional interviews produce a subjective, acutely narrow view of a job candidate.

«So I consider it my job to point out when we're getting a nice buying opportunity in the stock of a high - quality company if they ever occur.»

As Jonathan Cohn points out in the Huffington Post, however, Conway's reasoning is faulty: «The majority of able - bodied adults on Medicaid already have jobs.

For example, Bloomberg points out that only 2.2 percent of new grads surveyed started a business as their primary job after college.

«As a leader, it's your job to find these leverage points and guide your team to take full advantage of them.

You might not be thinking about what books, articles or speeches to create, but there has probably been a point in time where you have talked yourself out of pursuing something, because you convinced yourself that you lack a certain level of creativity that it takes to get the job done.

Healthcare and education are just two examples — but they illustrate a point: if the current system prevents a growing number of people from being able to care for themselves when they are sick, or get the training they need to get a job that supports themselves and their families, they will break the system.

«The No. 1 job in America, the point of person, is someone who doesn't understand the people, and really don't give a f — about the people,» James said.

And critics are also quick to point out that the promised benefits to Main Street of Trump - style tax cuts — faster job growth, higher wages and a boost to the middle class — are very much in question.

And J.D. as a child, a Marine, and a college student discovering the basic rules of life (wear a suit to a job interview, sparkling water is simply carbonated water) is so lovable that you find yourself wanting to hug this young boy and point him to the right path.

Mamane's case is extreme, but it underlines a crucial point: any tailor with 10,000 hours of experience can do a bang - up job hemming trousers, but when it comes to style, there's no guarantee that you'll like that tailor's work.

The biggest turning point in my life happened when I declined the security of a 9 to 5 job and decided to build a digital business on the simple principal of adding value to the lives of others.

That's better than the 74.9 percent of prime - age workers who had jobs at the low point of the economic downturn, in September and October 2011, or the 74.8 percent from November 2010.

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

Xero works with 350 other apps, including those for handling inventory, job tracking, and point of sale.

Dali Yang, a Chinese - born political scientist at the University of Chicago, points out that supporting off - line retail helps preserve domestic jobs, which pleases employment - conscious Chinese government officials.