Sentences with phrase «of getting a job on»

West Bromwich Albion caretaker boss Darren Moore has boosted his chances of getting the job on a permanent basis after the club's 1 - 0 win over Manchester United.

Back in November, when I returned to Northwestern to accept my Alumni Award, I told the Medill students that was why I started writing fiction instead of getting a job on a newspaper.

The odds of getting a job on MedReps go up considerably after 3 months, but those who have seen the most success have been members for over a year.

Why hire you if they are capable of getting a job on their own?

Not exact matches

I wrote a separate article on the topic of delegation where the simple rule is that if someone can do a job 70 % as good as you can, you should delegate it because you get 70 % of the output using almost none of your time.

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.

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.

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

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.

Non-productive meetings interrupt the flow of the day and we should all challenge the temptation to call a meeting rather than get on with the job in hand.

«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.

Maybe your awkward interview came in the form of a potential employer asking you about a skill set that wasn't outlined in the job description, or maybe your nerves simply got the best of you and you blanked on how to respond to a simple question.

They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

A way to get this straight in your mind is to take your job description, and match it to the persona of your ideal employee; the impact you want them to have on the business; and your own management style.

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.

In a 2011 op - ed in The Wall Street Journal, President Obama acknowledged this problem, saying «sometimes, those rules have gotten out of balance, placing unreasonable burdens on business — burdens that have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs.»

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.

This was during the early days of the internet, when AOL frequently needed to get parts to its engineers, but its logistics vendor was falling down on the job.

«Parliament has today backed the government in its determination to get on with the job of leaving the E.U.,» said British Brexit secretary David Davis.

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.

While college students concerned their degree won't get them a job (and their anxious parents) might breathe a sigh of relief on reading Kant's post, they should note that other experts warn that this «major in whatever inspires you!»

The irony of spending years in high school and college before getting a job is that what employers want most isn't any specific (or even highly specialized) body of knowledge; they want employees who can learn on the job.

Finding the world of finance lacking — it perhaps didn't help that she started a job at Lehman Brothers the very week it went bankrupt — Lewis moved on to get her MBA at the University of Virginia.

Whether you're after one of those jobs, attempting to move up or out at the one you've got, or trying to make it on your own, thinking entrepreneurially will help you get ahead.

«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.

Though the behavior of «playful Sue» may sound outlandish to some women, there are no shortage of high - powered and deeply serious professional women that admit to using their feminine charms to get what they want, including Clinton - era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who has admitted to flirting with male foreign leaders on the job.

«There are jobs and new ways of doing things that we can't quite get a grasp on, but they will exist.»

Domise says there are cases when healthy people can excel in their old age in jobs, but no one should make working late in life part of their retirement plan, because you just can't count on having the physical ability and get - up - and - go to do it.

Once you've gotten two or three comments, the comment feed should do a good job of attracting more comments all on its own.

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.

With 30 states and the District of Columbia having broadly legalized marijuana in some form, at least a few employers are reportedly treating it like alcohol: Don't show up impaired or get that way on the job, and you're fine.

Your job is to focus on the profitable 20 percent while not getting consumed by the demands of the costly few.

I took a poll of the room asking the very simple question: «On a scale 1 to10, how hard do you feel it is to get a job in your desired industry?»

Scientists know what's happening — it's a sense of euphoria you feel when someone comments on your Instagram photo, but that's not quite the same thing as landing a new job or getting a raise.

«At 22, I evaluated my first job based on what I could get out of it.

«The students get paid internships as a way to offset the cost of college, and when they graduate they can say they learned it and actually practiced it on the job.

«He gave raises to people who have the least skills and are the least equipped to do the job, and the ones who were taking on the most didn't get much of a bump,» she told The Times.

Early on I worked at a tech startup and in order to get that job, I kept pestering the founder of the company.

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.

By the late 1950s, the candidate in the gray flannel suit was performing in - basket assessments in which he'd be graded on how he handled a set of letters, papers, tasks, and telephone calls that mimicked what he'd get on the job.

But I also got a taste of what millions of individuals working white collar jobs deal with on a daily basis.

In looking for «nonnormal job» endeavors, Tetrick got talking to his childhood friend Josh Balk, who worked on reducing dependence on factory - farmed chicken eggs for the Humane Society of the United States.

That's why a lot of traders will be watching the market reaction if we get a blowout number on the jobs report Friday morning.

With 10 minutes of training from any employee, it can get to work on a job and after a few hours switch to another one.

You could also get certified in skill - based procedures, such as CPR, depending on the responsibilities of your job.

If you do side jobs on top of getting a regular paycheck with taxes withheld, you also might be able to adjust your withholding to reflect the additional tax you'll owe from self - employment.

If you're considering getting more education, the U.S. Department of Labor has helpful information, including which master's degrees pay off best, certificate programs that lead to good jobs and data on the fastest - growing occupations.