Sentences with phrase «small talk topics»

The most common small talk topics, such as travel, movies and music, are great ways to break the ice with your interviewer.

Find some small talk topics before you go so that you have more to talk about than just coworkers and work.

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Within those broad topics will be talks on many small - business issues.

Stephen Harper begins a second Pacific Rim trip this month in New Zealand, a natural ally on nearly every topic except for Canada's heavily sheltered dairy industry, where the small country that's been dubbed the «Saudi Arabia of milk» is hoping regional free - trade talks will pry open Canadian markets.

Say I am talking about baseball, and different leagues in different countries and I'm comparing and contrasting various types of equipment used in those leagues (aluminum bats in college, only wood in the pros, etc.) and the topic of baseball size comes up, and it's noted that the baseballs in Japan are smaller than the balls used in Major League Baseball.

The age of your child plays a big role in how you approach the topic of job loss — after all, small children won't understand if you start talking about layoffs, downsizing, or the economy.

This isn't something that will be answered once and never again, as with so much in parenting, addressing the topic in small pieces multiple times over the years is a great way to educate your children as opposed to having one «big talk.»

I will be talking about my favorite topics: the low FODMAP diet, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, IBS and IBD.

Never struggle to make small talk again with these go - to conversation topics.

Study them and then consider the following as viable talking points when you're flirting with someone in a bar this weekend or thinking of a topic for your first term paper or just making small talk with your dog...

Ask participants to talk in small groups about what evidence they saw of a good project (for example, the project revolved around a real - world topic; students were involved in project definition by suggesting questions; experts were included).

However, small talk can be especially difficult for some learners because making small talk means talking about almost anything — and that means having a wide vocabulary that can cover most topics.

After the afternoon talks, breakout sessions will allow teachers to explore specific topics in small groups with the scientists.

I've written before on the topic of edge, and how I think certain behavioral qualities can create much larger advantages for small investors than they might realize, but the short answer to this question is something I've observed over the years: everyone talks about these principles, but it's very difficult to effectively capitalize on them.

After a welcome and opening remarks by Dr. Bianca Zenor, Veterinary Technology Program director, the symposium gave participants the chance to choose between large and small animal topics, ranging from a presentation on Management of Feline Hyperthyroidism by Dr. Catharine Scott - Moncrieff, professor of small animal internal medicine and head of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, to a talk about Cattle Behavior and Stockmanship by Dr. Bethany Funnell, clinical assistant professor of bovine theriogenology.

They usually begin by trying to initiate small talk on any conceivable topic.

If small talk is the bane of the listserv, where there is a moderator or public pressure to «stay on topic,» small talk is the life blood of the social network.

He has a thesis in his new book about how kind of buyers or clients are taking control of the dynamics of the industry and as part of that, I think he and you advocate for lawyers and small law firms, thinking more like businesses and thinking about clients as buyers and things like that, that we'll get into in the episode, but one of the topics that I think is interesting to talk about then is something we've brought up a few times in the past about kind of identifying your ideal client or crafting personas of your ideal clients that you can have a story of who you're looking for and how to find them.

Right now I'm talking to the solo and small firm lawyers about the need to automate their document process and document assembly, because I think that's a big topic.

Discussing big topics, rather than small talk, creates more meaningful connections.

Make small talk with your interviewers, but keep to innocuous topics: don't talk about how much you drank at the weekend!

Whether the topic is big or small, your relationship can only suffer when you and your partner refuse to talk.

Thankfully, my parents talked to me about sex and protection, so I at least had the basics — even though it was more of a taboo topic and I didn't feel comfortable asking for more than the small bit that they told.

When I asked my friend Katie what topics she and her fiancé talked about in their marriage prep, she described it as an «opportunity to discuss real issues that can become critical in a marriage, such as holidays, finances, conflict resolution styles, etc. and smaller things such as annoyances / pet peeves, household chores, etc.» Katie suggests emphasizing that going through marriage prep is «just an extra opportunity for us to get to know each other, spend quality time together, and prepare ourselves for marriage, and talk about as much as possible beforehand so that there wouldn't be any «surprises» later down the road.»

«Small talk may be discussions of topics unrelated to what you're selling,» Lill says.