Sentences with phrase «year job stints»

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Following a 10 - year stint in the Navy, he landed a job as a manager trainee in 1971.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

A veteran of 20 years in high - tech firms, including a stint as director of personnel at Intel, Bowers cites the example of cataloging job resumes that come in unsolicited to Apple: «We get over 1,500 resumes a month from all over.

The coach will design personal learning plans for each young staffer based on what they want to accomplish during their brief two - to five - year stint at the company, and understand their values and interests well enough to ensure a smooth landing at their next job.

For the next 12 years the files went with Collins wherever he went — to college, to a stint with the elite Navy SEALs and finally to a job in real estate in Princeton, N.J.. However, it wasn't until January 1990, when Corinne Ham stumbled upon her fiancè's pedal - boat file while helping him pack for the move back to Noroton, that the project finally took off.

However, given his lack of experience in a top job with just a 31.4 winning percentage from previous stints in charge of Sion, Palermo, OFI Crete and Pisa, there are real doubts over the 39 - year - old being the long - term solution.

Winston Churchill was 80 when he left office, Margaret Thatcher was 54 when she began her 11 - year stint in the top job.

He won the seat at the 2001 general election and, after a short stint as shadow secretary for education, was party leader within four years, beating David Davis, Liam Fox and Kenneth Clarke to the top job.

Another part of the job is consciousness - raising, helping (e.g.) other NSF program officers, many of whom, at a given time, have just rotated in for 1 - to 3 - year stints, to understand that research in Africa poses unconventional problems (by American standards) which might call for unconventional solutions.

His college education was hard won, at night, paid for by the various odd jobs he took during the day, first in Chicago and later in New York City, and interrupted by a two - year stint in the military.

Peterkin, who worked on each of Ackerman's transition teams, acknowledged challenges of the job but that she had always been committed, staying within each post much longer than the typical superintendency stint of two years.

The track is bumpier and the conditions are not as good as years past, but the Michelins are doing a great job to maintain the consistency over the course of our stints.»

I was able to lead all of stint last year, and Antonio did a great job closing down and passing the Ferrari for another victory.

For several years I supported my writing habit through a variety of dull, poorly - paid, and sometimes horrible jobs (the weirdest was probably my stint as a research assistant / housekeeper / dogsbody for an egomaniacal self - help author whose elderly husband spent much of his time in the basement with his huge collection of Hustler magazines).

As the parent of a 23 - year - old who alternates between travel, freelance promotional jobs and short stints at home, the last thing we're planning for is depending on her for financial support in our old age.

After living in Spain for the past few years and returning home for a stint, I then quit my job and moved to New Zealand and I've been here ever since.

Istomina begins: «Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.

It was on this path, a few years into her 26 - year stint working for Newsday as a writer and art critic and her other job of writing television essays for Public Television's «The MacNeil / Lehrer Report» that she met the artist Louise Bourgeois and then found her way into the world of documentary filmmaking.

Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.

White (pictured) is set for an eight - year stint in the role, having first taken on the top job in 2009.

Bramwell, a veteran lawyer of more than 30 years, including time as GC at mobile operator O2, is enjoying his longest - ever stint in the same job after becoming BAE GC in 2007.

The skill that requires (in the UK) a three year law degree, a year of practical training, a two year stint of on - the job training, before the brightest and best graduates can call themselves qualified and enter the profession fully to «start» their career and their real learning.

In fact, if you were a frequent job hopper, only including the year, and leaving off the month, can sometimes be a helpful way to downplay short stints at jobs.

Your co-worker might tell you, for example, that she'd prefer you not mention her stint in marketing for this editorial job, or that she has 15 years of experience if she's hoping not to appear overqualified.

Corey says six - month or one - year stints can be explained as contract work, but that you should try to have a job on your resume that lasted at least two and a half years to show you have long - term potential.

With a global perspective, having lived overseas for 12 years (plus a stint outside of Washington DC for 5 years), Diane understands the military life, work, and culture and delivers savvy solutions and powerful (appropriately translated) career management tools for career change, career search, and career development, empowering military clients, building confidence through the military transition, and ensuring job search - proofing.

Too many years of minimum wage customer service jobs (and a stint in the Navy) has made me rather blunt about people going all summer's eve like that.

Luckily I found an unpaid internship a month later that is more suited to what ultimately I want to be doing, but I'm still at a loss for how to explain my brief stint at my last job, not to mention the year - long gap before that.

After living in Spain for the past few years and returning home for a stint, I then quit my job and moved to New Zealand and I've been here ever since.

I have never filled out a job application and the only job I have ever done that isn't fishing is a three year stint co operating my fathers wholesale lobster business (4 - 6 employees, 10 million in annual sales, what a headache).