Sentences with phrase «of job initiatives»

Upper Manhattan City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said that while he applauds the mayor's efforts and the fact that he's «putting his money where his mouth is,» he worries about the types of jobs the initiatives will create.

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Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

He is one of the executives President Donald Trump has named to assist in a manufacturing jobs initiative that aims for best practices to bring jobs back to the U.S.

As a result of the two - year project, the Carolinas» Nuclear Cluster says it has created 437 jobs, in addition to launching a number of business - development initiatives that will likely translate into jobs in coming years.

The claim: «Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives,» Trump said at a news conference on Feb. 16.

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.

When interviewing someone I listen very closely to the number and quality of side projects or other self - driven initiatives that person has worked on outside of their job.

After all, part of a good leader's job is to inspire employees to work toward the company's vision and initiatives.

Half of the board of Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has walked off the job, including chairman John Cooper, after it flagged a change in direction, a number of redundancies and cost - saving initiatives in response to the tough climate for local contractors.

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

Neither FundersClub nor AngelList rely on initiatives mentioned under Title III of the JOBS Act, so it's wrong to think that SEC was making a substantive ruling on the matter with these letters.

Perhaps he proposed both initiatives because he was appalled by the behavior of D.C. politicians in the summer scuffle over the debt ceiling and because he believes the public sector right now is incapable of microfinancing in the service of jobs creation.

One classic study, outlined in the book Getting a Job, showed that among the 282 men surveyed, 56 percent had found their jobs through personal contacts, whereas only 19 percent had found theirs through job advertisements and 10 percent through applications of their own initiative,» says the poJob, showed that among the 282 men surveyed, 56 percent had found their jobs through personal contacts, whereas only 19 percent had found theirs through job advertisements and 10 percent through applications of their own initiative,» says the pojob advertisements and 10 percent through applications of their own initiative,» says the post.

The job also puts Gore in charge of Dell's global policy initiatives, empowers her to advocate for pro-entrepreneur regulations and has enabled her to reconnect with former colleagues at the U.N. «I've lived and worked in the humanitarian world for my entire career,» she says.

Facebook began its latest small - business initiative with the wider rollout of its jobs platform.

The president «recognizes that the government must take steps to streamline regulations on small businesses,» according to Fetcher, noting several initiatives begun during Obama's first term, including a government - wide review of regulations and support of the JOBS Act.

The women — Susan Wu, Laura I. Gómez, Erica Baker, Ellen Pao, Tracy Chou, Y - Vonne Hutchinson, bethanye McKinney Blount, Freada Kapor Klein — have all pushed for greater diversity within the tech industry long before the new initiative, on which they'll work on outside of their day jobs.

Apple is already responsible for creating and supporting over 2 million jobs across the United States and expects to generate even more jobs as a result of the initiatives being announced today.

Although the site is meant to be most useful to job seekers looking to beef up their skill sets, the facts that Bloomberg has signed on to Codecademy and the White House has partnered with the site for a learning initiative are signals Bubinski's line of thinking is becoming mainstream.

Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Sara Sutton Fell is the CEO and founder of FlexJobs, an award - winning, innovative career website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance and part - time job listings, and founder of Remote.co, a one - stop resource for remote teams and companies, and the 1 Million for Work Flexibility initiative.

Known inside the company as Future Ready, the initiative is a $ 1 billion web - based, multiyear effort that includes online courses; collaborations with Coursera, Udacity and leading universities; and a career center that allows employees to identify and train for the kinds of jobs the company needs today and down the road.

All told, the initiative has led to the creation of roughly 20 jobs thus far, Grussing says, and 14 burgeoning businesses.

Sara Sutton Fell, founder of telecommuting job site FlexJobs.com, suggests requesting links to current online examples, as well as past portfolio samples, so you can evaluate social media initiatives that the consultant created or played a central role in.

During his 45 - minute outline of the bold initiative, in which he repeated the phrase «pass this jobs bill» more than a dozen times, Obama described reforms to create new construction projects, restore American schools, and cut the payroll tax in half.

We've written plenty about the job cuts, high - level departures, rise of technology, weak deal - making environment, strategic initiatives, and cultural changes.

And while he successfully switched careers, thousands of fellow miners in and around Hazard are unemployed, despite numerous job - training initiatives such as HCTC's lineman program.

While not contending with these headline - grabbing controversies, Clement has also quietly been pushing forward with initiatives with major implications across a host of sectors «One of the nice things about politics is you get to engage in a little bit of self - definition as to what your job is,» says Clement.

In July of that year, the bank announced an initiative to trim more than $ 1 billion in costs including compensation, a plan that entailed cutting 1,000 jobs.

On January 12, the president - elect announced that Powell would get a White House job as senior counselor for economic initiatives, saying she would focus on «entrepreneurship, small business growth, and the global economic empowerment of women.»

Notwithstanding its potential environmental burdens, the JRP ultimately concluded that the NGP is in the public interest, citing various societal benefits including primarily jobs and job - training for Aboriginal communities but also «research, monitoring, and planning initiatives and techniques with relevance beyond the project» and economic benefits, first and foremost the importance of «opening Pacific Basin markets» (NGP Report, Volume II, Chapter 2, s. 2.4.3 and 2.4.4.).

«The agreement does not tie the hands of law enforcement from doing their job,» says Michaelle Pope, the district's executive director of student support initiatives.

NACO is proud to publish its first whitepaper with the objective to promote policy initiatives intended to increase the number of successful startup companies, jobs, and wealth creation by supporting early stage capital investment provided by Angel investors in Canada.

The White House today released a list of 28 business leaders — including Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank — it said will be part of President Trump's ongoing manufacturing jobs initiative.

This award recognizes a woman who has become a successful job creator and significant contributor to the economy of Greater Vancouver through her entrepreneurial initiatives.

Woods, whose background is in downstream activities, wants to emphasize this aspect of the company's business in part for the political benefits: The Trump Administration's focus on expanding U.S. exports and building American infrastructure in order to produce new jobs clearly factored into Woods» address, which emphasized the «thousands and thousands» of new manufacturing and highly - skilled jobs the initiative would produce.

This initiative, which will start next year and continue through 2020, will double container capacity, position the port for future growth, create thousands of jobs, improve efficiency, and increase tax revenues.

Enbridge has an enterprise value of C$ 166 billion, with an unparalleled growth program that includes C$ 27 billion in secured projects and another C$ 48 billion in potential projects — initiatives that will support economic growth, job creation, increased tax revenue and community vitality across North America.

Here for America is an initiative of the Association of Global Automakers to increase public education about the importance of international automakers to American job creation, economic growth, technological innovation and strong communities.

Despite these challenges, we see evidence that employers have tried to limit job cuts as much as possible through initiatives like work - share arrangements, and want to retain their staff in anticipation of future growth.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded in 2005 by operatives from the John Kerry campaign who were then shuttling between work at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Democratic party jobs.

The book of Job tells us that we will never get our heads round the unfathomable mystery of God, but the seer also foresaw that the answer to evil lies in a Divine initiative of Love which will restore beyond measure whatever was lost.

This job title is something for which she has certainly earned her stripes, having spent years living in the toughest of neighbourhoods in Canada and Australia in order to carry out church planting and social action initiatives.

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He was a worker who took the initiative and went far beyond the letter of his job description.

McCain Foods Americas president Frank van Schaayk said that the company will contribute $ 2m and collaborate with the provincial government in the development of initiatives that create sustainable jobs for its affected workers.

The Australian Meat Industry Council and the Meat Industry Employees» Union have accused the government of subsiding foreign workers who compete directly with Australian meatworkers for jobs with its five - year commitment to an initiative, Managing Abattoir, Training and Exchange of Skills, or MATES.

Downs, Ayotte and Hoyer will also discuss the importance of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and the confectionery industry's impact, as well as industrywide leadership initiatives and the NCA member companies» community involvement.

Frustrated by the limited number of people he could help in his job at a nonprofit organization providing services for at - risk youth, Geoffrey Canada in 1999 founded a large - scale initiative eventually dubbed the Harlem Children's Zone.

A staff «white paper «prepared for Thursday «s regular Fair Authority board meeting will suggest a series of economic development initiatives linking the fair to Gov. James Thompson «s Build Illinois program and to the Commercial Club of Chicago «s recent report on creating jobs in metropolitan Chicago.