Sentences with phrase «work of a number of years»

«It was real local experience that helped achieve those results - local credentials bringing forward the hard work of a number of years brings success,» he told Today.

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For 15 years in a row, the number of applicants for H - 1B work visas has far exceeded the program's cap of 85,000 available visas.

The slowdown in mining project work has resulted in a 26 per cent fall in the number of environmental professionals employed at the state's biggest consulting firms over the past year.

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

-- Shannon O'Brien, ranked number one career coach and number one life coach in Boston on Yelp and founder of Whole U, a career and life strategy consultancy she started after seven years working and studying at Harvard and MIT

Two years later, those numbers haven't improved much: Facebook, for instance, is 55 percent white and 36 percent Asian, with all other minorities accounting for just 9 percent of the work force.

After two years of work, that number stayed the same for male employees — but for women, it dropped to 16 %, regardless of whether they were married or had children.

The two have already swapped staff in a number of cases, including Gawker editor John Cook, who spent a year as editor of First Look before returning to Gawker, and Alex Pareene, who worked at First Look before returning to Gawker.

«Taking the two years to the end of 2016, almost a third of the rise in the number of people in work reflected growth in self - employment (double the share of that category in total employment), with another fifth corresponding to more people in part - time work,» he wrote in a recent note to clients.

Today marks the additional number of days the average woman in the U.S. has to work this year to catch up to what men earned in 2017 alone.

One technology company that I worked with for a number of years couldn't catch on to this.

Walmart has its work cut out for itself: the number of unique visitors to its mobile app rose 20 % year over year in October, but Amazon's rose 64 % to 49 million during that period.

With U.K. life expectancy a long 80.75 years and the average retirement age of 65, a significant amount of people are working longer, however, with data from the Office on National Statistics (ONS) released last week showed the number of older people aged 65 - 74 who were economically active had almost doubled in the last ten years to 16 percent.

The company frequently ranks number one on lists of «Best Places to Work,» like it did this year on Glassdoor, and as it has six years in a row on Fortune.

Then they can look at your track record from the last number of years and see it's all worked out, and when you have made a mistake, you've owned up to it, and that there were lessons learned.

The number of Orbital employees working on OmegA is expected to double to 1,000 if the Air Force awards the company a design contract this year, the company said.

I had been working a number of years for the same organization, and was now engaged to my fiancee, who was from Germany.

The number of professionals who are working on a freelance basis as opposed to a full time basis has been on steadily on the rise in recent years across all industries, but in particular in the journalism industry.

Project Jasper, a joint effort between the private sector and Canada's central bank and payment systems operator over the past two years, is a good example of this type of work, and is a blueprint that the U.S. should follow if we ever want to see blockchain become a viable Social Security number replacement.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

They've been working for me for a number of years; and, so far, we've made it work.

Your startup may have the coolest technology in the world, but without people who believe in your product and service, who are willing to work for you, to buy from you, to do business with you month after month and year after year, then that $ 1 million number will be what it is for the majority of startups out there: only a dream.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

For instance, organizations may allow their employees a certain number of «work - from - home» days throughout the year.

The organization determines the average hours worked per year by taking «the total number of hours actually worked per year divided by the average number of people in employment per year,» according to its Web site.

Finally, don't put this issue down without reading «Making It Work,» Jeff Chu's moving profile of five businesses leading the fight against a quiet social crisis — the growing number of people on the autism spectrum who come of working age every year.

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

«We worked together very closely for a number of years — it's hard to say who [influenced who] more but it was a very important part of my life.»

The work on the shop floor, as in any box company, is hard, blistering hot in summertime, and occasionally dangerous (the number of lost - time accidents last year: five).

His small team, which is working on a game called The Long Dark (due next year), is comprised of industry veterans who have collectively worked at a number of the big studios in Canada, including Ubisoft Montreal, BioWare and Relic Entertainment.

Rethink «retirement» «I've been on this agenda for a number of years now, that we need to quit talking about retirement planning and start talking about planning for when you can no longer work,» McClanahan said.

To help extend your savings at retirement over a longer time horizon, work with an advisor to assess both your investment allocation and your draw - down strategy in relation to the number of years you expect to live, he said.

While there are programs like Social Security to help ease the financial burden, most workers have to depend on savings, 401k's and the dwindling number of pension plans that some companies offer, to see them through their after - work years.

It's fundamentally uncomfortable to either have a year, or many years, of work reduced to a number, or to do that to somebody else.

Over the past year, historically high levels of unemployment have left record numbers of highly skilled individuals looking for work.

Age she received her first camera: 13 Year she won a MacArthur Fellowship: 2009 Countries she's worked in: 40 + Number of kidnappings: 2

The number of people working on the side has more than doubled in the last 40 years, rising to nearly one million Canadians as of 2015, says Statistics Canada.

Starting from the most recent 2014 report (which contains data from 2013) and working backwards through all the available studies, we find that the number of these workers has shrunk somewhat, though there is a great deal of year - to - year volatility:

Just because something has worked for a number of years doesn't mean that it will continue to work, or that you can't find a better way to do it.

Divide it by the number of workday hours, which is 1,760 (220 working days per year times eight hours per day = 1,760).

I know people buying over 100 homes a year — and they work the same number of hours as I do, if not fewer.

At Wharton, the number of graduates going to work for start - ups doubled in the past year.

Worse, over the past 12 years, these low numbers have barely budged, meaning that the vast majority of employees worldwide are failing to develop and contribute at work.

The finance area keeps in touch with alumni who are working in finance at a number of events that are organized throughout the year.

Hourly salaries were converted to yearly using a hypothetical number of 1,790 hours worked per year.

Chan said that about five years ago, he worked with a Hong Kong - based non-government organisation, which advised him to lag the pipes inside his factory to reduce the number of steam leaks.

Prior to forming CorePointe, Mr. Fording spent over 12 years working for Ableco Finance LLC and Cerberus Capital Management where he focused on direct lending serving in a number of different capacities including origination, underwriting and portfolio management.

Individuals who participate in an income - driven repayment program, work at a non-profit organization, or work for the federal government may qualify to have their loan balances forgiven after a set number of years on on - time, consecutive payment.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

In fact, some of the folks I work with who have millions stashed away spend less than $ 82,770 number each year.