Sentences with phrase «of job you're going for»

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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.

Here's a simple rule of thumb for when to keep your own mouth shut: don't say a thing unless it's going to help someone else in the meeting do their job better.

A quick «congrats on the great work» email, thank - you note or pat on the back can go a long way in cultivating improved job performance and a positive company culture for the rest of the year.

«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.

If you want to commemorate the years they've spent in college, or, if they're going far from home for a job opportunity — frame a nice picture of their loved ones.

Late last year, she accepted a job as a senior consultant on ocean governance for World Wildlife Fund Canada, which provides her with new mentors, new skills and the chance to go home at the end of the day.

The recombination of the two companies has been one of the scenarios floating around Viacom ever since it became obvious that CEO Philippe Dauman was not going to be long for the job.

«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.

When I broke the news that my first job out of college was going to be working for my brother, she was horrified.

Second of all, if you lie about the job, then the person starts working for you and sees that things aren't the way you presented them, you are going to lose them and they will go work for another company.

This job taught me the power one garners by knowing everything that's going on in business and the world — who's doing well and might be a candidate for a sale of a popular Warner Bros..

«Health care goes beyond doctors and nursing professions — there is high demand for people to fill positions available in health care technology, at hospitals and elsewhere within the industry that tap into a variety of the categories we rank and that offer a low unemployment rate, a high median salary and robust job growth.»

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

But for Jordan, having the discipline to go the distance when no one's watch - ing is part of the job.

He showed early entrepreneurial promise selling candy and doing odd jobs for neighbors, eventually going on to become the founder of the Standard Oil Company.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

For example, in terms of summing up past and current data on what is going on in the world, they generally do a pretty good job.

«I think it's real tough for anybody to go out and start a business in a world he knows nothing about,» says Tom Golisano, the founder and CEO of Paychex Inc., an $ 870 - million payroll - processing and human - resource - services company based in Rochester, N.Y. «My advice to Mike would be to find a job in a dynamic industry and then to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities within that industry.

While the majority of the credit for their success over the first half of the season goes to their defense, Case Keenum has done an admirable job filling in as the starter.

He also says he was fired for going around the marketing team and for not being «great at planning or product management,» skills that the company needed to scale, not to mention that they were also part of his job description.

Sanders echoed his own presidential campaign's message by noting that American people are «tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low - wage countries.»

For Niceta Lloyd, who goes by «Rickie,» the job has the added challenge of collaborating with a first lady who is not yet living at the White House full time.

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.

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

I knew that most of the people we let go that day would not get another job for a long time.

There needs to be something more for someone to go through the stress of seeking out and interviewing for a new job.

And VR's going to do a much better job of that than AR for the foreseeable future.

There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.

The hiring of a schizophrenic man as the interpreter for Nelson Mandela's memorial service is a bold reminder that employers need to go the extra mile when screening job candidates.

Maybe that's why he is one of the rare breed of CEOs who has held the top job for 17 years and is still going strong.

Along those lines, Smith and Microsoft's EVP of Artificial Intelligence, Harry Shum, are circulating a new book that, among other things, explores the demands that AI is going to create for new skills and job retraining.

The German government granted a bridging loan of 150 million euros to allow Air Berlin to keep its planes in the air for three months and secure the jobs of its 7,200 workers in Germany while negotiations go on.

«When you come back and are looking for a job, this is the story that your boss is going to remember out of all the people they interview,» he says.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

For the first time since then, the percentage of MBAs who are shunning traditional corporate jobs in favor of going out on their own is hitting new records once again.

A 2014 study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a group that promotes tougher immigration laws, concluded that in New Hampshire the vast majority of job creation went to immigrants and not to native residents.

Then they came for those who had gamed the student visa system to get permanent residency, and I felt a twinge of guilt about Rajiv, who I used to go drinking with before I landed my job at Megabank Inc..

Long gone are the days when filling a position was merely a matter of posting a job description and waiting for people to apply.

GALLOWAY: How did the insecurity of that job affect you because with everything your parents had gone through it's not the most stable profession for someone.

One of the toughest jobs for an Internet fax vendor is adding and deleting users as employees come and go, but the vendor Peoples Trust uses, Seattle - based Concord Technologies, processes requests in minutes.

All that was looked at or considered was, different kinds of ways in which the people could be seated so that people and office goers could come, do their job and retire for home.

«In the back of your mind you're thinking about why you're leaving your current job, and you don't go beyond that for a while.»

It's as if the marketing world believes that consumers buying something for themselves are totally emotional, but the minute they go to work and buy something as part of their job, all they care about is optimization and efficiency.

The company I worked for nearly went out of business, and a friend offered me a job as a writer for a content service at $ 15 a page — and I thought it was marvelous.

«We're going to feel the pinch,» says Armine Yalnizyan, the senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, who predicts another wave of job losses.

Yet for all the celebration of Facebook's success and the adulation of Zuckerberg as a visionary, what's less well understood is how he goes about his day job as an executive.

Surveys conducted of the 50 Best Workplaces for Recent Graduates found teams substantially more likely to say they can count on colleagues to cooperate, as well as a greater willingness to go the extra mile to do their jobs, compared to workers at peer companies.

Add to that a lack of regulation: After the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012, which aimed to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital, startups could take on many more investors before the Securities and Exchange Commission effectively forced them to go public.

One economist recently told Fortune he has job openings in the hot area of data analytics that have gone unfilled for six months or more.