Sentences with phrase «recently left a profession»

I was just thinking about some of these themes today as I recently left a profession that demanded an urgent, 24/7 on - call attitude from the staff of a particular organization.

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Recently, teacher preparation programs have been successful in graduating enough teacher candidates to keep pace with the increased demand for secondary science and mathematics teachers (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2011); however, up to 50 % of these new teachers leave the profession within their first 5 years of teaching (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004).

Meanwhile, the Teacher Quality and Retention Program, run since 2009 by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the recently formed Boston Teacher Residency Male Teachers of Color Network, aim to support existing black male teachers, who are more likely to leave the profession.

The news that one in four lawyers wants to leave the profession because of the stress and long hours reminded me of the (rather grand) party I attended recently where the partner of a law firm confided earnestly that his biggest fear was that his children would decide to follow him into his career... We pointed out to the lawyer, not without spite, that he lived in a vast house and enjoyed fabulously expensive holidays.

If you have some gaps in your work history or you entered this field recently after leaving another profession, you'll want to show off your future plans and core contributions, not your past positions.