Sentences with phrase «rather than a career»

Maybe ministry works better as a special interest, an unpaid calling, rather than a career.

I've seen federales at Waffle Houses before, but the types of scandals that emerge from beloved diner chains tend to revolve around one customer shooting down another's drone at 3 a.m., rather than career - building investigative material.

The e-mail is also a fundraising appeal that asks supporters to help Rice keep the spot on the air by contributing and warns rather ominously that she will be the subject of attacks in the coming weeks «by career politicians and wealthy political insiders who will stop at nothing to make sure that our state's next lawyer is a politician, rather than a career legal advocate.»

Academia now serves as a «training ground» rather than a career destination for the great majority of scientists, with work in industry, government, or other nonacademic employers the «new norm.»

A major part of her happiness is in her family, her home, rather than her career.

Many teaching programs have recognized graduates» tendency to doubt their career prospects in education; therefore, these programs have rebranded themselves so that they are recognized as jumpstarts to a career rather than a career's end goal.

Is teaching considered to be just a job rather than a career option or an occupation or calling for individuals?

My writing career began as a hobby rather than a career, which was interrupted by marriages, divorces, births, deaths, graduate school, and a demanding job as a global collector for multinationals.

Those authors tend to be hobbyists rather than career writers.

at Uni after 25 years employed in various problem solving roles, I would certainly have more faith in the opinion of a relevantly qualified and experienced engineer who has studied climate science literature, rather than a career academic in that field.

Rather than our career taking us somewhere, it's far better to ask where we want to take it.

While other sites such as Google +, Pinterest and Instagram have their uses in the realm of recruiting, the expectation is that these sites are suited more for casual, rather than career, connections.

Rather than a career archive of dates / company names and duties held, the resume is replete with stories that have been parsed based on the target reader's needs (as well as the candidate's most compelling nuances that set him apart!).

The purpose of this kind of a resume is to focus on strong relevant qualifications and skills rather than career progression.

Another option is the functional resume, which highlights your skill sets rather than your career progression.

A functional resume concentrates on a job applicants skills and experience rather than their career history.

ExecutiveTrumpet is purely a web - based matching service rather than a career coaching or career management service.

Not exact matches

Rather than working for their company, they're working toward their own career advancement.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

In the latter (or, to hear him tell it, middle) portion of his career, those causes have often been philanthropic rather than commercial ones: drug law reform, death penalty abolition, ocean conservation.

Meanwhile, Barra said that as CEO she is looking to address the problem of women who start viewing their positions as «jobs» rather than «careers» once they have children.

Rather than climb a single corporate ladder like the company man of yore, you're more likely to spend your career scaling a professional jungle gym, maneuvering between projects, jobs, companies, industries, and locales.

Cohen has long viewed his legal career through a pragmatic rather than high - minded lens, said former Cooley Law School classmate Greg Crockett, now an attorney in Okemos, Michigan.

Connecting people through technology, rather than employment contracts or local proximity, is an inevitable step that will create plenty of opportunities for modern careers.»

He says he became a lifer by accident rather than design: «Evaluating my career, my criteria have always been: Do I like what I am doing?

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

A broken nose led this former college offensive lineman to a career in academia rather than football.

Also, in the past, women saw their businesses more as providing careers and opportunities to make money rather than as opportunities to cash out.

«Turning highly sought - after entry level management careers into hourly jobs where employees punch a clock and are compensated for time spent rather than time well spent is hardly an improvement on the path from the working class to the middle class.»

Rather than the awkward career sabotage we've been conditioned to expect, the teary situation had the opposite effect.

Partly as a result, Black has noticed that Gen Zers are a bit more inclined than Gen Y to favor the idea of developing skills and building career in one place, rather than hopping around from one employer to another.

«Rather than react to the changing times, plant some seeds now so that you can be proactive and stay in control of your career and remain competitive,» she says.

This advice may befuddle generations of guidance counselors with their insistence that love should precede career choices rather than follow them, but Newport isn't the only person challenging the passion orthodoxy.

Solomon: Now comes true confessions time: Anything you can share that you would have done differently in your career - something that readers can learn from rather than repeating a mistake themselves?

Reading «Disrupted» strictly as a memoir of career transition — rather than as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,» as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.

In today's world, employees largely seek the advancement of their own career rather than the organization as a whole.

The recent improvement in start - up activity despite a relatively healthy labour market indicates that a significant number of new entrepreneurs chose self - employment as a career rather than being forced to open a business due to a lack of other employment opportunities.

Bankemper, who had spent most of his career focusing on selling to contractors rather than do - it - yourself consumers, hadn't considered either.

Blockchain systems are poised to redefine the meaning of work, career and employment, where the biggest decisions would be made collectively by an organization's members rather than the C - suite.

Rather than focusing solely on the negative, difficult aspects of «work,» find activities you enjoy and find rejuvenating, and consider them part of your overall career development.

And if you're planning an encore career rather than a traditional retirement, investing the cash to upgrade your skills could make sense.

Anyway the point is that if you are a banker and conceive of your job as «save the careers of corporate managers» rather than «do what is best for the corporation,» that's a little weird.

This approach helps the business owner enjoy his or her career rather than fretting that someone else might be» eyeing their cheese.»

If you want a career in sales, but would prefer to work from home rather than the road, we've identified the top 15 companies for remote sales jobs in 2018.

Rather than looking solely at an applicant's credit score and income, SoFi also considers factors such as education and career choice to decide whether to approve you for a loan.

Shared interests on working on your career, rather than just in.

If we expect universities to be part of our prosperity strategy, then faculty interested in such pursuits should devise new institutional approaches for their career advancement that reward rather than punish them when pursuing commercialization of their research.

But more importantly, my career is motivated by what I can give rather than what I can get.

On character, he'd seem to be able to compete, so long as he emphasizes family life rather than political career (leaving aside the suspicions about Mormonism).

An obstetrician becomes an abortionist after a career damaging mistake saying that he has decided to end mistakes rather than make them.