Sentences with phrase «who was out of a job»

The investigation is coming out of the office of the U.S. attorney of the Eastern District, according to this source, and started after the governor hired a number of former Obama administration staffers who were out of jobs after their ex-boss left the White House.

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Not all of us are that honest - kind - of - guy who has no fear to straightly state his opinion and show appreciation when it comes to a well - done job, but being a leader is sometimes all about getting out of our comfort zone.

There are a many people coming out of law school who are finding it very hard to get a job at a decent law firm.

«The jury's still out,» according to Bitcoin developer Peter Todd, who says Ethereum has done a good job of marketing itself, but who isn't sold on a technical level.

We want to turn the vital bits of who we are into jobs, and ensure that we can see ourselves reflected in the services and products we are involved in turning out.

Kinross Gold's Tye Burt, Centerra Gold's Stephen Lang (he's now chairman) and Great Basin Gold's Ferdi Dippenaar are just three of the many gold company executives who found themselves out of a job or kicked upstairs.

Researchers at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that parents who set super-high expectations for their teenage daughters — and who constantly reminded them of those expectations — had daughters who were less likely to become pregnant, drop out of school, or wind up in lousy, low - wage jobs.

«As it turns out, one of the perhaps six people on planet Earth who could have looked at my cartoon and said «yes» was a woman married to a guy who was the spitting image of, and had the same job as, Dilbert.

One of Perry's biggest programs, Los Angeles WorkSource Center, is all about getting people — especially those who have been out of the work force for an extended period — into jobs.

That's what happened to Mark Tacchi, who dropped out of graduate school in 1993 to take a job at NeXT, the computer company Jobs founded after being forced out of Apple.

Create a spreadsheet to help you keep track of the hiring managers you've reached out to, so that when you hear back from them, you know who's who and you can easily recall what the job was and anything else you've learned about the employer from your research.

To find out she scoured the web and reached out to a number of founders and CEOs who are also mothers to gather the best advice on balancing high - stakes jobs and newborns, writing up the results in a fascinating Medium post.

We caught up with CNBC career expert, Suzy Welch, to find out who knocked the Watershed Hospitality job interview out of the park and who left something to be desired.

The real clincher comes when we see a world of disgruntled people who go off to work, day in and day out, to a job they hate, never even knowing they were called to be more.

Do what everyone who's ever had a successful career has done since day one: Get a degree in an in - demand field, get a good job with a good company, gain experience, figure out what you love to do, develop your skills, meet lots of great people, gain exposure to new opportunities, and advance your career.

When you cope in a job, it feels like you're having the life force sucked out of you by an invisible overlord who laughs like an evil genius as you visit random websites all day.

That's what happened to Jack Griffin, the CEO of Time Inc. who was recently thrown out after less than six months on the job.

Former Republican Congressman Jim Greenwood, who is now the president and CEO of biotech's largest trade association and lobbying outfit, BIO, is out with an editorial in The Hill celebrating the five - year anniversary of the JOBS Act becoming the law of the land.

Once «green jobs» got moved out of the hands of folks who were responsible for starting it, they were suddenly no longer based in political or economic reality.

The union was seeking assurances about bonuses and severance packages for the factory employees who will be out of jobs when the plant closes before the end of this year.

The No. 1 job on our list is petroleum engineer: the person who figures out how to get the oil out of the oilsands.

For the first time since then, the percentage of MBAs who are shunning traditional corporate jobs in favor of going out on their own is hitting new records once again.

Those who were not part of this new team, with a few exceptions, found themselves out of the loop and, increasingly, out of a job.

But one major advantage to this strategy is that candidates who aren't results - oriented and sure of their skills will self - select out of your hiring process, leaving you with the people who will actually do a good job for you.

«I decided it was time to get out of the spare bedroom and set up a legitimate business,» recalls Crews, who left her job as a government contractor in 2010 to start Kombuchick.

They're out of touch like Mitt Romney, who lost the presidency in 2012 and was widely criticized for saying at a private campaign event, «My job is not to worry about» 47 % of the U.S. voting population.

This is a key to the success of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers, a group that emerged out the 9/11 tragedy in New York and asks customers to join them in rating restaurant food quality while inquiring about the quality of the jobs of those who prepare and serve their meals.

And so are quits — there are still lots of Americans who are holding on to jobs they'd rather leave for fear they'll find themselves out of work.

He argues that this is borne out by other data, like the number of people not in the labor force, but who want a job.

Unemployment, measured in a different survey, edged down to 7.7 % from 7.9 % in January and, for once, not just because more Americans gave up the job search: 170,000 said they had found employment, meaning those who dropped out of the labour force were less than half the total.

Any journalist who makes stuff up or tries to substitute opinion for fact would quickly be out of a job at Inc. magazine.

Members of the operations team who handled onboarding in markets where self - serve wasn't yet up and running demanded to know whether their jobs were safe; at least half a dozen didn't wait to find out and took other offers.

Former Google exec Margo Georgiadis is out as CEO of Mattel after a year on the job, to be replaced by Ynon Kreiz, who previously ran YouTube video producer Maker Studio.

When I left a secure corporate job, I was immersed in writing about visionaries like Jobs, Bill Gates, and others who started companies in their garages or dorm rooms, dropped out of college, and became billionaires.

The case for expanding investment in entrepreneurs and small businesses is clear: small businesses create two out of every three new private sector jobs and half the people who work in America own or work for a small business.

«We want them to progress because when you have a whole bunch of people who can't progress out of their jobs, that's when you get into environments that aren't highly engaged,» says Ewen.

Uber hosted a «jobs event» for prospective and current drivers to showcase how many New York residents» jobs would be cut if the vehicle cut were to take effect, and also ran TV ads, bought banner ads on websites, sent out direct mailers to constituents of City Council members who are proponents of the proposed legislation, and even reportedly tried to persuade the Rev. Al Sharpton to oppose the for - hire - vehicle cap.

Way too many 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 year olds who follow me on Instagram think that their first job during college, or out of college, or as they're coming up, is to learn how to raise capital.

We've done some interesting things to figure out how many job candidates we should be interviewing for each position, who are better interviewers than others and what kind of attributes tend to predict success at Google.

For Starbucks, the new store in Englewood and others like it form a key part of the company's long - term commitment to connect opportunity youth — 16 - 24 year olds who are out of work and school — to jobs.

If you are looking for a little inspiration, check out these stories of job seekers who love to use FlexJobs!

They figured that «hedonistic» candidates would be highly influenced by things like office location (which turned out not to be true); that «self - directed» candidates would be greatly concerned with a start - up's perceived innovativeness and with their own ability to have an impact (both true); and that people who are especially worried about job security would focus on the qualifications of the founders and the commitment of prominent investors (both true).

So while asking those run - of - the - mill interview questions can help you weed out the candidates who took the time to do their research (and those who didn't), what you really should be asking are those strange job interview questions that can offer a better glimpse into the person's personality.

With new unemployment figures released each month, it's easy to get discouraged about the millions of Americans who are out of work or underemployed, and it makes us all the more grateful for our jobs.

«The Retail Revival is a critical read for all marketing professionals who are trying to figure out what's next in retail Doug Stephens does a great job of explaining why retail has evolved the way it has, and the book serves as an important, trusted guide to where it's headed next.»

In fact, in a survey conducted by his company, «Seven out of 10 employees who report they've received some form of appreciation from their supervisors say they're happy with their jobs.»

They are examples of how global outsourcing companies are using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional skills — according to interviews with a dozen current or former employees of Toys «R» Us and New York Life — to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

They also extend the analysis in the earlier Jones and Riddell paper to incorporate data from Canada, and compare differences in the rates of job creation for people who were counted as unemployed versus out of the labor force in the two countries.