Sentences with phrase «on the day to day job»

In libraries, this is a great asset (on the day to day job).

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You may joke that the week you went on vacation flew by far too quickly, but if you stop and think about it, that week actually seemed to last much longer than one involving the drudgery of your day job.

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.

So good earnings news from Berkshire (BRKA), especially on the same day where the jobs numbers were a lot stronger than expected, and showed signs that wages are finally increasing, would seem to be a really good sign for the economy.

«You're obviously not going to feel your best if you can't find a job or you get stuck in traffic for hours on end every day» explains Card Hub CEO Odysseas Papadimitriou.

Investors sit on many boards and have many other job tasks so often if you get a deck the day before and you're in back - to - back meetings and a dinner you're only likely to have a cursory look at the materials prior to meeting.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

How we learned: In our day, we were handed a guidebook on our first day on the job and told to read it.

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.

In his first three days in the job, he discovered that an Afghanistan veteran had been told not to display a platoon photograph on his desk in case it upset people who opposed the war, and that the company did not allow employees to have tattoos or facial piercings.

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.

Jessica — I just did the same thing (quit my day job to focus on my blog and photography business) and I can only hope to follow the kind of success you're having.

A few days ago I was listening to a caller on an AM radio show promote the government's economic record by stating that there are more Canadians with a job today than at any point in Canada's history.

The system also allows the job to be tracked from acceptance, through production and delivery.CJ King is currently providing door - to - door UK turnaround in four working days on jobs that would normally take two to three weeks in the UK.By implementing a high level of integration and standardisation over the whole prepress, print and finishing process, the company is able to run large jobs over multiple presses achieving identical results, as well as short runs without delays in changeover and make readies.

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter — and more pervasive — by the day: Facebook recently announced that it's developing a way for its bots to not only read your private messages, but understand their meaning; Slack is on its way to having its chat feature answer questions about your job.

Then we go to our off - site commissary kitchen where we do all the prep work, which includes rolling the dough, making sauces, cutting the vegetables, and all of the things you really can't do in a 10 - by - 10 truck,» explains Baitinger, who still works a day job in advertising but handles the truck on nights and weekends.

That means a lot of first days on the jobs, and lot of time and money to spend while new staffers get up to speed.

Why I Like It: Back in the day, the job of a PR group was to put «spin» on reality to make it more palatable or exciting.

The day after Trump won, the American Wind Energy Association released a statement touting its contributions to the economy including the fees developers pay to farmers who agree to host wind turbines on their land and the jobs the industry creates.

While we're mostly (thankfully) past the days where women had to face outright discrimination and routinely fend off on - the - job advances (at least outside of, ahem, some industries), differing standards and expectations for women remain.

At Code School, we do this by setting aside one day every month where we encourage our employees to work on anything that makes them better at their job.

At the end of the day, reflecting back on that first job is essential to running a business.

Our opponents have significant operations on the ground in key battleground states, full - time candidates without day jobs, and a lot of media attention to fuel their campaigns.

He told Business Insider on the day he was due to start: «I'm moving there this week by my own without having any particular job.»

It really doesn't take very long to rectify a lot irritating and frustrating issues that dramatically impact on our sense of job satisfaction during the our working day.

To stay the course, Downey relies on a chart on her desk, a carryover from her previous job, showing the day's top goals.

Her further advice is to look at the company's mission statement (we hope it's clearer than these) and make a list of ways you could contribute to that mission in your first 30 days on the job.

Melinda Gates, whose job quite literally entails saving the world, said it well: «On the day I die, I want people to think that I was a great mom and a great family member and a great friend.

With more than 8,000 tech jobs available on Dice.com on any given day, New York City, unsurprisingly, is the most challenging place to recruit computer science graduates, the survey found.

Depending on the day, J. Money covers topics that range from how to make money in weird and unusual jobs to his growing net worth.

On her last day of work before the operation, her manager promised her that her job was safe, she says, but an hour later, asked her to sign a letter acknowledging that it was not.

For professional athletes, there is no entry - level job — they're put on the field on day one and are expected to deliver the goods.

That means that a central pillar of Bounce Exchange's company culture is thoughtful hiring and making sure that the entire process — from first interview to last day on the job — is a positive experience.

It's also important for new hires to connect with the right people from their earliest days on the job.

A simple way to tackle the problem of managing on - the - job training is for you to challenge conventions about where and when work is done — legacies of the days of more limited communications technology.

I had financial security, the ability to take the time off I needed, and a job that I did not just believe in, but where it's actually OK to spend all day on Facebook.

Small firms often have no set limit on sick days and no insurance for long - and short - term disability, so they resist a request for paid time off they deem dubious, or to guarantee leave - takers their jobs back after an extended absence.

Especially if you have a day job, it's probably unrealistic to find the time to pour over financial statements and speculate on earnings reports in hopes of competing with Wall Street analysts who use satellite images to count the number of cars in the parking lots of major retailers.

Eventually, Zhou hopes San Francisco — based SherpaShare can answer that question by working with on - demand platforms to create a schedule for a user's day — drive for Uber in the morning; finish odd jobs for TaskRabbit in the afternoon — to meet an income goal.

He paid a graphic designer $ 30,000 to develop the logo and the packaging, and spent over $ 100,000 more on raw ingredients and materials, using up every last paycheck from his day job.

And who wouldn't like to serve a huge market connecting millions of customers having urgent technical needs, limited alternatives, and little concern about price with millions of highly skilled professionals who would love to be their own bosses, fill their days with challenging and diverse problems instead of bullshit make - work jobs, and have countless opportunities served up to them on a regular basis which they can pick and choose as they wish.

Back in September, two days before Barack Obama delivered his speech to Congress on jobs, he put in a call to Howard Schultz, the chairman and CEO of coffee king Starbucks.

Choose one that'd make the most positive impact with regard to how you feel about your job and pitch your manager on why they should give you an hour a day — or a few hours a week to incorporate it into your work routine.

Sloan reported that 93 % of 2016 graduates accepted job offers within 90 days of graduation at companies like Amazon, Google, McKinsey & Co., and Microsoft, and 6.1 % of grads went on to start their own businesses.

If a staff person isn't required to meet with a client or customer in person on a particular day and the job can be done from home, there's no reason he or she needs to come into the office.

The most significant search tools prospective candidates use are the ones that let them seize on episodes of downtime or gaps in their day to make targeted strikes on potential job opportunities — in transit, on the go, and sometimes on the run.

«We need an SBA administrator who can put the pedal to the metal on fueling job creation and the economy on day one.

I had a journalism degree, and my first day on the job I had to build a financial model from scratch.

If you're looking for advice on how to find a job, start a business, or feel better about how much you accomplish every day, you've come to the right place.

«Pausing to take a little bit of time to reflect on those contributions that we make every day even once a week is enough to strengthen our ability to focus and to invest effort in what otherwise might be a difficult and stressful job.»