Sentences with phrase «of getting a job for»

Although the practice is controversial, a bad credit history — or lack of credit history — can lower your chances of getting a job for which you otherwise are qualified.

Interview coaching can help increase your chances of getting a job for a number of reasons.

Not exact matches

«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.

«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.

«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

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

(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.

«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.

Since everyone at the outset is doing multiple jobs and since you can't be everywhere at once, you've got to trust your people to do the right things in the moment, since there's no rule book, no time for extensive preparation and instruction, and there's rarely a second chance to make a great first impression with a lot of new and prospective customers.

Here's a list of 10 jobs of the future you should start training for now to get ahead of the employment curve:

«Running for mayor of Waterloo, talking to people to get their trust, was the most incredible job interview I've ever had.»

I never thought we would grow to the size we are today,» he told WA Business News.The most recent innovation has been the $ 250,000 adaptation of software, originally developed for Toyota, to allow clients anywhere in the world to get quotes, supply artwork, have that artwork checked and for the job to be printed and dispatched.

Trudeau backs the Keystone pipeline as «an extremely important initiative... in terms of getting our raw resources to market,» which, in turn, could mean good jobs for a greater number of people.

Yet economists and policy experts say that view fails to take into account the changing realities of the workplace, where it's harder to get good - paying jobs, and where wages have been stagnant for decades.

It's more difficult for them to land good jobs, according to a study from the Pew Research Center, in spite of the fact that more millennials are getting college degrees than their parents did.

It's much harder for researchers to identify the new jobs that will be created and who will get them as a result of I4.0.

I graduated first in my class at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 1958, and after 52 interviews, I got a job for $ 2.50 an hour with the firm that designed the Empire State Building.

«People wan na hire people that they know and are comfortable with, so the more relationships you have, the easier it'll be for you to get a job, have someone recommend you, that sort of thing.»

You've got to want it, be willing to work for it, be right for the job you're seeking, and not get too far ahead of yourself.

The best way to assess a person's suitability for a job is to get a good picture of him or her through multiple perspectives.

However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder of Junar, an open data platform for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job for at least a year.

Like Erin Griffith said in a previous Term Sheet, the degree of the misconduct matters: «The specific act that occurred matters for questions like: Should this person be allowed to get a new job in a position of power?

In fact, in a survey of US employees, one in three said they would look for a new job if they didn't get a pay increase in the next 12 months, according to Glassdoor.com.

Where, in their day - to - day life, programmers may have well - paying but fundamentally boring jobs managing tiny bits of huge, tremendously complicated software, Gigster lets them exercise their problem - solving muscles — and get well - paid for the privilege.

«People look at you and say, «You just got the job because of your dad»... It was very important to me, branching out and getting to know people and having people know me for me as opposed to knowing me for being my dad's son.»

If the product they sold is defective or the customer service team does a poor job of handling complaints, your sales team's morale will drop, especially if they're getting chargebacks for cancellations and refunds.

In our world of trying to make everything bigger and faster, the challenge for companies ranging from SAP to Google (GOOGL) has been how to get more information into the DRAM, because if you want real - time data processing (for example, the Internet of things or for business transactions) you want jobs performed right next to the computer processor.

One of Perry's biggest programs, Los Angeles WorkSource Center, is all about getting people — especially those who have been out of the work force for an extended period — into jobs.

What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

Instead of asking customers what features they want, they observed their customers to understand what «job» they were trying to get done and the «outcomes» they longed for beyond the obvious.

The book helps people amplify these areas of their lives in order to prepare for major transitions, become unstuck, reinvent themselves in the workplace or get the job they've always wanted.

It can be a pressure - cooker of a job, but if you've got the nerves for it you can be well - compensated, with average salaries of $ 87,000, with paycheques gaining altitude in bigger markets with busier airports.

«It's always better to get to the end of your experience and have extra money for your re-entry or your nest egg,» she says, adding that the exact amount of money you need varies depending on whether you plan to travel or stay planted in one location, what activities you plan to do and whether you have a job waiting for you at the other end.

Either way, job - seekers get a lot of sympathy from me, as long as they're taking responsibility for their side of the equation.

If you tend to micro-manage, then follow these basic steps: select the right person for the job; train them to the standards required for the job; resource them with all the tools needed to perform the job; identify the expectations for the performance; get out of their way to allow them to do the job; assess the performance and correct and praise, as appropriate.

It does show that for Pao, as for many of the women in Snyder's study, simply being excellent at the job at hand isn't going to get you very far.

Instead of vowing to get a better job in Q1, commit to updating your resume and applying for at least five job postings.

The hardest aspect of my job as an executive coach is trying to get CEOs such as William and Rachel to sit still for 20 minutes a day in quiet, contemplative thought.

There's still no word on if this means Garoppolo has the job for good — Beathard's injury was factored into head coach Kyle Shanahan's reasoning for Jimmy G getting the start — but regardless, Sunday will likely be the most excited Sunday of the season so far for 49ers fans.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

«Small business owners should not worry about [a higher minimum], because they will get a higher quality of work, and your business will get much bigger returns from happier customers if you have happy employees doing a good job for you,» Nguyen says.