Sentences with phrase «people at industry»

Alternatively, 54 % of people said they prefer to meet people at industry associations and activities organised by their employers.

Not exact matches

At industry event, I can tweet with a certain hashtag as a way to meet people whom I may be able to help (and have actually gotten clients this way).

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

Unexpectedly, the news - gathering industry is receiving at least a short - term shot in its ink - stained and digital arms courtesy of a president who has labeled it an «enemy of the people.»

At the time, she also used Instagram as a platform to implore people to «change the conversation» about body shapes in the modeling industry.

The party would set a $ 15 minimum wage for federally regulated industries, and establish a Youth Community and Environment Service Corps, which would support jobs for 160,000 young people over four years at the new minimum wage.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

Regulators have been taking aim at industry contracts that prevent people from viewing movies and TV programs outside the country in which they are sold, focusing on Sky's deals with major motion picture studios including Walt Disney, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Brothers unit, Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

And I find that one of the greatest joys I have is sharing what I've learned as a way to give back to the people who are either starting out in the industry, or are sort of at a point in their careers where they're looking for some sage counsel and advice,» he told me.

However, according to Matt Schulz, a senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com, there's an easy way to protect yourself from fraud moving forward — but it's something very few people do.

«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.»

Dharmesh Shah: As the founder of HubSpot, pioneers of inbound marketing, Shah is a great person to follow on Twitter because he's at the forefront of an industry that is constantly evolving.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

«He's a guy who thinks at the highest levels — about government, about macroeconomic issues, about geopolitical issues and about what's happening in our industry,» says Colleen Johnston, TD's chief financial officer, adding, «Despite all he's achieved, he's also a guy who can put himself in other people's shoes and think like a normal person.»

It's the first time an executive at the nation's second - largest bank has publicly laid out how it will deal with gun - industry clients following Feb. 14 shootings at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

«People look at the electronic medium as an environmentally friendly thing,» says Paul Quinn, paper industry analyst at RBC Capital Markets.

On Wednesday, the most influential people in the tech industry gathered at Trump Tower in Manhattan for a conversation with president - elect Donald Trump.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

«It has become clear that at the most fundamental level, appropriate representation in technology or any other industry will depend upon more people having the opportunity to gain necessary skills through the public education system,» said Williams in Facebook's 2016 diversity report, released Thursday.

«I tell the people I work with that they should be Vikings or pirates,» Bridget van Kralingen, SVP of Industry Platforms at IBM (ibm), told attendees of last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C. And what exactly does that mean?

Even if you don't find employees at these industry events, you will at least make contacts who understand your needs and will put you in touch with other people they know.

But speaking at in - person engagements and industry events can play a role in establishing influence.

Obviously while being a «name» helps, lots of people only became names, at least in part, after they gained exposure by writing for influential, high - profile sites in their industries.

Rather, finding the people who are most aligned in interests and goals, and communicating genuinely with this at that level, is most likely to achieve your desired result: industry contacts that can help you.

The key is, for years United has been at the bottom of an industry that people already don't like.

China is preparing to hit back at Trump's planned sweeping tariffs with levies aimed at industries and states which tend to employ his supporters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.

Rather than try to compete directly with Match, the industry leader, he created a website that cost almost nothing to run and was aimed at the sort of people who wanted to browse a few profiles but weren't ready to take out their credit cards.

«At a certain stage, it's hard to value him, because he's like a piece of art or a «collector item» to people in the industry.

An Israeli entrepreneur, Shor discovered that the health care industry has long struggled in vain to find ways to get people to take the right meds at the right time — or to take them at all.

Weiner is undergoing psychological treatment for what he says is an «addiction» and is working at a non-profit organization he founded in 2014 to train young and formerly incarcerated people for jobs in the culinary industry.

Alan Kennedy, a longtime executive in the industry who worked at Avon in the 1970s and 1980s, puts it this way: «The fundamental challenge in direct selling is getting people to sell your stuff, not so much getting people to buy your stuff.»

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

The JPMorgan Chase CEO had gone on a tirade about a certain well - known cryptocurrency — people who purchase Bitcoin are «stupid,» Dimon said at an industry conference, and governments will one day «crush» the stuff — and Ludwin was aghast.

Contrary to their portrayal in pop culture, entrepreneurs aren't purely «idea people,» dreaming up revolutionary new concepts and introspectively coming to profound conclusions about their industry — though they are that, at times.

And, when she decided to get into fashion, she didn't just do some research, she met with «people in the industry who had created or worked at companies I respected — Tory Burch, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, and Calvin Klein, of the established players.»

But disruption is coming at us from all corners of industry, as our 2015 ranking of the most influential young people in business shows.

Six people died and more than 20 were injured when a crane collapsed at a Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea on Monday, Yonhap News Agency said.

In a globalised world, with circular flows of culture, ideas, money and people, the very companies that are at the forefront of engineering and IT - driven industries in India, are also major investors in the UK today.

At a time when the music industry is dominated by three major labels - Universal, Sony and Warner - will.i.am told CNBC that programs like «The X Factor» and «The Voice,» which he has been a judge on for two years, provide a valuable means for people to become successful artists.

However, he observes, functionality has been an issue with some early pay - at - the - table solutions, largely because they were designed by people who lack understanding of the specifics of the restaurant industry.

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

Speaking at events is a great way to get your company's name out to people already interested in your industry.

When I look at decisions to expand my business, if I look to hire new people, the reason I make the decision to do that is based upon what the economic climate is going to be and the economic activity of my industry,» said Rowen.

The move also comes as a number of retailers stake a claim in the growing «smart home» industry which centers on tech that does things like let people turn off the air conditioning remotely: Best Buy (bby) recently announced it was giving more floor space at 700 of its stores to better showcase Amazon's Echo as well as Google Home.

One thing technology has been doing for some time is helping to determine salary by looking at a person's position and responsibilities and then comparing it to their peers», not just inside the company but across the industry.

One of Doornbos's instructors at George Brown, master sommelier Bruce Wallner, wasn't sure he liked the idea of sharing a sommelier title with people outside the industry.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials.»

To see the industry downturn tears at the cultural roots of how people perceive themselves and where they live, because it pulls the rug out from underneath you.»

In 2016, according to a Marijuana Business Daily report, the industry employed approximately 150,000 people nationwide, from lab technicians in testing facilities, extraction scientists to retail jobs at dispensaries.