Sentences with phrase «of sitting across»

The mere idea of sitting across a panel of interviewers whose next step is to grill you intensely, is somewhat perturbing.

They are in fact the most difficult to ace, as the pressure of sitting across the table from a prospective employer can really make you feel intimidated and overwhelmed.

Most of us have an inherent apprehension of sitting across the table from an interviewer but it is something that we... Read More»

Or maybe — as one negotiator said five years ago — it's just that they all got really sick and tired of sitting across from the same people saying the same thing year after year.

I strive for each piece to give the viewer the sense of sitting across from someone during an intimate conversation.»

For the unpublished writer, the thought of sitting across from an editor or agent and convincing her / him to read your book is intimidating.

There's nothing worse for an introvert than the prospect of sitting across from a first date and trying to think of conversation, and how to be engaging.

Sometimes doing an activity together takes the pressure off of sitting across a table from one another trying to come up with conversation topics.

Sometimes even the idea of sitting across from a stranger and trying to come up with witty conversation is just too daunting.

And because they have the luxury of sitting across multiple boards they ought to be able to bring you a helicopter view of the decisions you need to make in your business.

A recent dater that I know of sat across from his attractive date and confessed the following: «I'm sorry.

All of them sit across the Himalayas from Kathmandu (they're only the worlds tallest mountain range after all) presumably in the mountains or on the Tibetan Plateau, since average temperatures are all 10 degrees C or more lower than Kathmandu.

Not exact matches

«By taking the time to teach the orientation, the clear message that comes across is that we value them and their work so highly that the head of the company is willing to sit with them to go over things,» he says.

Around the turn of the millennium, Fernandes was sitting in a London bar, when he saw entrepreneur Stelios Haji - Ioannou, who is famous for creating easyJet, a low - cost airline which now flies more than 75 million passengers annually, across 31 countries.

The other nine provinces were mashed into a single space, while the biggest province sat just across the aisle in a relatively spacious spread spanning the equivalent of two typical booths.

In mid-March, as part of a world tour to promote the company's new menu of «experiences,» Chesky stopped in on New York City for a sit down interview in front of the Economic Club of New York, the 110 - year - old organization whose membership spans the top leaders from across the business world.

When the co-founder of California - based Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) isn't sitting in the middle of a 70 - person trading room or staring at a Bloomberg machine, he's doing yoga at a health club across the street, thinking of his best ideas.

Sit down with your credit card bills and bank statements and track how much you spend across each category annually, including rent, food, and all of those one - time irregular expenses.

Hundreds — perhaps thousands — of entrepreneurs have sat down across the table from Union Square Ventures founder Fred Wilson to ask for money.

That applies literally: The simple action of looking at a workstation from the same vantage point (as opposed to sitting or standing across from the trainee) will make your training more effective.

Canwest's Sunday papers are survived by a few remaining Sunday editions across Canada — most notably the Sunday Star — but the 24 - hour news cycle will undoubtedly continue to force the number down, as sitting with the Sunday paper becomes more of an anachronism, in a country that never fully embraced the idea of a Sunday paper in the first place.

On this particular walk, I had popped into the Silver Snail and HMV, both purveyors of pop culture that sit across the street from each other.

Many abandoned their usual domestic duties for the day, with spiritual sisters across the country staging sit - ins and takeovers of all - male bars.

In private, people sitting across the table from Cohn have seen another side of him, that of a maestro in the art of applying strategic pressure.

My prospective boss shook my hand from across his desk, then walked around and grabbed one of two chairs in front of the desk and invited me to sit in the other one.

Instead of showing up in a window, Bob will be at the bottom of your computer screen, just like he's sitting across from you.

It's hard to listen to Clark's arguments for a «fair share» of pipeline benefits without imagining her sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of a log cabin with a shotgun across her lap.

Spread across three levels, Domain has full occupancy of the building's top floor, which sits beneath a south - facing sawtooth roof designed to make the most of the Australian sunshine.

It sat six feet across at its widest, and the four of us were never farther away than eight feet from one another the entire journey.

My grandmother was sitting on the sofa, slack - jawed and transfixed, walking across the surface of Mars.

Along with quite a number of other colleagues, I sat on that internal committee and we held hearings across the country.

One note of caution: be cognizant of articles that you come across that may be sitting behind a site's paid side (i.e., paywall).

As a matter of interest, I chair our Diversity Leadership Council, made up of senior leaders from across our businesses, and it is the only committee other than my executive committee that I sit on.

Declaring today a «National Day of Disruption,» protesters in hundreds of cities across the country are participating in mass strikes and sit - ins to bring attention to the cause.

Bloomberg's Julie Verhage sat down with two of Anthemis» founders, Sean Park and Amy Nauiokas, to discuss market trends across the financial services...

In celebration of National Small Business Week (April 29th - May 5th) we sat down with five members from Hera Hub locations across the world to hear about their story, passions, impact, and businesses.

In this recorded interview, AudienceBloom CEO Jayson DeMers sits down with Neil Patel, Founder & CEO of KissMetrics, CrazyEgg, QuickSprout, and columnist across dozens of major media publications.

Commenting on the formation of the team, Kramer said: «SILT sits at the heart of our organisation and taps into decades of ESG expertise across investment teams, governance specialists and clients facing advisors.

That could create a political quandary for House Republicans, faced with voting next week on a tax bill with scores of controversial provisions, while another version sits across the Capitol that could be more palatable.

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

On a recent weeknight, an anemic crowd sat nursing drinks mostly in silence as an episode of «Jeopardy!» flickered across a flat - screen TV.

Otherwise, you will both be sitting across from the CEO stumbling over answers as to why lead management is not working — and is out of synch.

She sat across from tech bloggers, reporters, and TV cameras who slurped up her delectable story — that she had come up with Theranos, her blood - testing company, as a Stanford freshman who was fearful of needles — and they largely regurgitated it, sometimes beat for beat.

The guy sitting on the bench across from me is of particular interest to me: A short, pudgy, obviously hardened Hispanic male in a leather jacket and an uninviting scowl on his unshaven face.

I've sat across the room from a group of fisherman who shared their stories of being drugged, forced to labor 20 hours a day for years on fishing boats, under horrific conditions.

As I write, they sit across the kitchen table from me, in all their innocence and little - girl perfection, eating chocolate cake, chatting purposefully about what game they will play next, blissfully unaware of the things that divide their mothers.

I happened to be sitting across from and talking to my daughter in law when I noticed a deer crossing the wide expanse of a lawn, I exclaimed, «Look, there's a deer!»

I happened to be sitting across from and talking to my daughter in law when I noticed a unicorn crossing the wide expanse of a lawn, I exclaimed, «Look, there's a unicorn!»

The wife of a northern clergyman noted in a letter home that «we were told that Negroes sitting on benches along the street weren't just sitting — they were watching to see that our office [the NCC office in Hattiesburg] and the COFO [Council of Federated Organizations] office across the street were safe.»

On the western slope of the Mount of Olives, just across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem, sits a small chapel called Dominus Flevit.