Sentences with phrase «of getting to the job»

If you begin writing your resume with this positive notion in mind, you become aware that your chances of getting to the job interview are actual and visible.

Use the following tips to better your chances of getting to the job interview.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Jeff Bezos is «proud» of this employee benefit A dream job that's all the rage across America 4 ways to get your ideas noticed by the C - suite

«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.

The truth is that most of us are mere mortals and we don't need the newest and greatest anything — we just need something in our price range to get the job done.

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.

In fact, job search platform Glassdoor says one of the most popular interview questions that candidates can expect to be asked is, «What gets you up in the morning?»

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.

Design has changed over the last few yrs., and no longer is it enough to get jobs through word - of - mouth.

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.

Not all of us are that honest - kind - of - guy who has no fear to straightly state his opinion and show appreciation when it comes to a well - done job, but being a leader is sometimes all about getting out of our comfort zone.

To get started, here's the story of Orcas Island Taxi, which Charles «Eric» Whitehead started after a construction job dried up.

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.

There are a many people coming out of law school who are finding it very hard to get a job at a decent law firm.

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.

«If we get complaints about a manager, that manager has to go to each member of his team and say, «Listen, I can't stay here unless I do a better job of being your manager, so what am I doing wrong?»»

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.

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.

When I got a job at Barnes and Noble in high school, I used my discount to buy a bunch of copies to give as gifts.

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.

While new tech can help solve a lot of problems, it's important to realize that ultimately any new bells and whistles are just tools that help you get the job done more efficiently.

(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.

From professional services like accounting, real estate, and insurance to simple job brokering (i.e. a head hunter), all you need is a phone and a list of names (which is also easy to get if you have access to your town or city's public property tax records).

When you «got so much money you should start a bank,» so much paper right in front of you it's hard to think, then you've got 99 problems and keeping your job ain't one.

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.

One of the biggest problems that nonprofit organizations have is finding enough people to get the job done.

«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.

«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.

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.

Some people want to keep working, while others wants to get out of the stress and pressures that come with a job as soon as possible.»

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«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.

The government's job is to create infrastructure and really get out of the way and allow the movement of free trade.

«Young people have got the potential to be great employees in a sales capacity, but they're not coming out of school completely job - ready,» says Scarborough.

One take - away from this story is great advice from an Entrepreneur to his son, «Getting, keeping or making that future job starts with understanding the distribution system and your place in that process... Your knowledge has to be critical to the success or failure of the process.

When he was laid off, one of the two calls he received after submitting 200 job applications was from a renewables company that manufactures biofuels from compostables, an area he's keen to get into.

«Like all companies, [our] employees really want to do more than just work at a job, and part of the purpose is to get engaged in the community,» he says.

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.

My clients are people that want a quality, no - nonsense company that will get the job done whether it is from planning a small and intimate event to a gala or wedding or from planning or promotion of a fundraiser to a signature launch party.

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.