Sentences with phrase «traditional career tracks»

Employed Americans want to opt out of traditional career tracks.

And yet, in the face of the aforementioned rampant unemployment and depressed economy, Americans are increasingly opting out of traditional career tracks at every major juncture, choosing self - employment and creative work over «corporate» America.

Ultimately, I have my own small business (a lot of stress would have been spared if I'd been an entrepreneur from the beginning instead of trying to follow a traditional career track), that has literally saved the ranch and kept the roof over my head, not to mention some hours of terrific pleasure in nature.

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Second, the United States needs to build a more responsive labor market with more career paths outside the traditional degree track.

As graduate students and postdocs, you likely know that the majority of Ph.D. scientists enter rewarding careers outside the traditional academic track.

Many women who are still single at 40 and beyond have made a conscious decision to focus on their careers rather than taking more traditional tracks like marriage and babies.

Previously, a typical career track consisted of traditional advancement from teacher to assistant principal to principal and regional director or corporate support center staff.

But NYC's traditional public school system is on a fast track to nowhere without a successful strategy to turn around the vast majority of non-charter, non-selective admissions schools that continue to fail to prepare students for colleges and careers.

One author in particular — Elle James — taught me a lot about her highly successful career being a hybrid author, working with traditional houses as well as being a driven indy author with a great track record.

Over at Above the Law, Elie Mystal writes that recent events suggest we are seeing a new bifurcation of the attorney career path: traditional partnership - track associates and a new species of what he calls «barely legal» career paths.

Market shifts over the last fifteen years have created a much different career path for many lawyers who might otherwise have had a traditional, stable existence at a law firm with an 8 to 10 - year partner track.

For someone who made his name blogging, Lat's career started out on as traditional a track as possible.

But it is doing so with an interesting twist: a career path called the Custom track that is designed to retain talented lawyers who desire a less traditional path to partnership or choose not to become partners at all.

Tammy Lawson was on track for a very successful sales management career when she decided to leave the world of traditional employment to purchase and manage a franchise organization that was in distress and required turnaround.

The report concludes that social pressures push men and women into different majors and career tracks based on traditional gender roles.