Sentences with phrase «of years on the job»

Replacing the standardized salary schedule, where the only factors that determine teacher salaries are the number of years on the job and academic credentials, seems a worthwhile goal.

The authors found that even in districts that were identified by NCPI as having merit pay plans, «most were so weak that they represented no meaningful change from traditional compensation systems,» which typically are based on the number of years on the job and academic credentials.

The rest of the teachers in Los Angeles — and most of the country — still hang with the industry - style, highly unprofessional way of compensation: ye olde step - and - column method whereby teachers, no matter how talented they may be, are paid by their number of years on the job.

This set - up rewards teachers for the number of years on the job, irrespective of their effectiveness.

Tenure provides teachers protections aftera certain number of years on the job.

Not exact matches

Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra - Lee Furness, who's 13 years his senior, met on the set of his first job in 1995.

In fact, 41 percent of the on - demand workers we surveyed had faced a personal financial hardship in the past year (such as a job loss, health emergency or unexpected major expense).

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.

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.

Harley Finkelstein, Chief Platform Officer of Canada's tech darling Shopify, took on a second job this year as a judge on CBC's Next Gen Den, the web - only version of the hit show Dragon's Den, featuring younger entrepreneurs and riskier deals.

«Once fully realized, the programs in this announcement will support more than 18,000 highly skilled jobs in the U.S. and thousands of jobs in Saudi Arabia as part of maintaining and modernizing these platforms over the next 30 years,» Lockheed Martin said in a statement on May 20.

While Texas has few jobs directly dependent on exports to Canada, the state sells us more than $ 25 billion worth of goods each year.

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.

As part of the deal, which still needs approval from Congress, Saudi Arabia «expressed its intent» to spend $ 28 billion on defense technologies and programs by Lockheed Martin, which estimated the deal would support 18,000 jobs in the U.S. over 30 years — a figure that falls dramatically below Trump's estimate.

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.

Non-energy exports led the rebound, a show of strength that Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz has been waiting on since he started his job more than two years ago.

For the study, researchers analyzed a a sample of more than 340,000 job interview reviews posted anonymously on the site to determine whether hiring is moving faster or slower today compared to previous years.

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.

Back in Barrie, Leone checks on a one - year - old elevator to demonstrate how an ideal maintenance job should go: He climbs into the pit at the bottom of the shaft and replaces the pads that absorb dripping oil; he wipes the crud and cobwebs from the elevator's bottom; he rests an ear against the door to listen to its mechanical innards; he straddles the door to ensure it nudges him out of the way properly.

Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a New York City - based nonprofit organization focused on placing top - college graduates in startups for two years in emerging U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Sort by median salary to find the jobs with the fattest pay cheques; sort by five - year wage growth to see which fields have the fastest - growing salaries — that can indicate a shortage of qualified candidates (and opportunity for you); or sort by five - year growth in the number of people in the field — those are the places that have been on hiring sprees (but watch out; that doesn't mean they'll continue the streak).

Axovant shares tumbled another 20 % Monday after CEO David Hung, the former chief of Medivation who orchestrated the latter company's sale to Pfizer, resigned from the post after less than a year on the job.

My initial reaction when I saw Jim Stanford's piece on how the Tory plan confused jobs with person - years of employment was disbelief.

On the other hand, increasing the minimum to that amount two years ago might have cost the economy about 500,000 jobs, or 0.3 percent of the workforce, by 2016, the CBO found.

Alberta, still on the mend, has experienced an uptick of more than 20,000 jobs since the start of the year, too.

Daunted by the expense of a four - year program, students are focusing on learning the skills they need for the jobs they want.

There's no guarantee of a job after the program finishes for participants, nor any obligation for them to stay on in the city, but Greene Groves hopes that spending a year in Detroit will help convince participants to build longer - term ties to the city.

Three years earlier, Cramton quit his job as a furniture salesman to focus on building the company, which he had been running part time out of his basement in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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.

Feldstein says his lawyer had to lean on the insurance company before he could collect on the hotel job, and that it took him more than a year of negotiation to secure his money.

When Herb Sizemore was CEO of Kansas Communications, in Lenexa, Kans. (he recently sold the company), he kept a file of all the «People on the Move» columns in his local paper and called people a year after they'd taken a new job to see if they were happy with their situation.

In March of last year, after another successful Kickstarter campaign for a touchscreen stylus called the Cosmonaut, they quit their fulltime - design jobs to focus on running Studio Neat.

The number of U.S. manufacturing jobs has been on a 30 - year decline.

According to Accenture, 40 percent of Americans plan to spend more on holiday shopping this year compared to last year, both in stores and online via computers and mobile devices, so it's your job to earn their attention and dollar.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

Among the jobs on offer when he graduated was bank teller at the Bank of Nova Scotia's Windsor Park branch — starting salary, $ 7,400 a year — marking the start of a 43 - year run at the bank.

After a year on the job, the tall, soft - spoken 46 - year - old knows the four square miles of his delivery zone intimately: where it's safe to double - park, which streets snarl with weekend tourists.

He spent nearly a year working on a unique business idea - a reverse job board - that he felt could provide a valuable alternative to the array of options currently on the internet.

Despite a mixed Friday jobs report — the US economy added only 156,000 jobs against expectations of 175,000 — the labor market has come on strong over the past few years after the financial crisis.

On the table below you can tap the column headers to re-sort by salary in absolute dollars, five - year wage growth, size of workforce, job title, or demand outlook.

To qualify, you'll still need to have a loan from the Direct program, have had made all of your payments in full and on time, and have worked 10 years in a public service job with a qualifying employer.

Those who've made the final cut — after what's typically a yearlong series of interviews that scrutinize a venture's business model, hiring practices and sales potential — have gone on to collectively create more than 225,000 jobs and generate more than $ 6 billion last year alone.

Finally, the economy is on a hot streak: employers have been adding jobs steadily for a year, and growth is running at an annualized rate in excess of 3 %.

While the professional restlessness wasn't new for Stewart (in a Medium post she wrote on the topic of her departure, she referenced a pattern of churning through jobs every three years), the way she acted on it was: She quit with no opportunity lined up.

The topic came to mind when I read today's story about how the salary of the CEO of Canada's biggest banks, RBC, had gone up 44 % to $ 10.9 million during his first year on the job.

One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

The PSLF, established by President George W. Bush in 2007, allows student loan borrowers who pursue government or non-profit public service jobs to wipe out their remaining debt after 10 years of on - time payments.

With that said, those still aren't the cities these young adults are currently moving to, says LinkedIn, which determines these trends by looking at data from its users, including the year they graduated from college and the locations of the jobs on their profiles.

That sounds damningly high, but it adds up to just 35,000 jobs per year, or a seventh of the number of jobs the U.S. economy has gained on average per month this year.

Rendle was one of the architects of The North Face's industry - leading success in recent years; he was president of that brand from 2004 to 2011, on his way to becoming COO of the parent company four years later, the job that landed him the CEO position.