Sentences with phrase «years jobs went»

For years jobs went begging, with some of the highest wages in the country.

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A quick «congrats on the great work» email, thank - you note or pat on the back can go a long way in cultivating improved job performance and a positive company culture for the rest of the year.

Much has been said about the possible impact of automation: A Forrester study estimates that 6 percent of jobs will be replaced by robots within four years; others say half the world's jobs will be gone by 2035.

If you want to commemorate the years they've spent in college, or, if they're going far from home for a job opportunity — frame a nice picture of their loved ones.

I've had several connections with iiNet for over 6 years now... I'll be looking elsewhere as great customer service comes from people who are very happy with their jobs and don't dread going to work.

Late last year, she accepted a job as a senior consultant on ocean governance for World Wildlife Fund Canada, which provides her with new mentors, new skills and the chance to go home at the end of the day.

Back in Barrie, Leone checks on a one - year - old elevator to demonstrate how an ideal maintenance job should go: He climbs into the pit at the bottom of the shaft and replaces the pads that absorb dripping oil; he wipes the crud and cobwebs from the elevator's bottom; he rests an ear against the door to listen to its mechanical innards; he straddles the door to ensure it nudges him out of the way properly.

When my daughter Chloe was born 10 years ago, I went back to work after 12 weeks, the max amount of time the Family Medical Leave Act would protect my job.

In return, she had one year to become profitable — or she had to go get that job she turned down.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

That's a terrible thing in America, where a guy who has been a company commander in Afghanistan or Iraq goes to try and get a job at a tech company, some 25 - year - old HR weenie asks them if they've ever had a real job.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

Those who've made the final cut — after what's typically a yearlong series of interviews that scrutinize a venture's business model, hiring practices and sales potential — have gone on to collectively create more than 225,000 jobs and generate more than $ 6 billion last year alone.

«When CGI was first invented we all thought we're not going to have a job in five years,» Corbould said.

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

The topic came to mind when I read today's story about how the salary of the CEO of Canada's biggest banks, RBC, had gone up 44 % to $ 10.9 million during his first year on the job.

«If we don't act, in the next five years we'll be saying the same things: that Greece isn't going well, that there are no jobs... that we have a new...

What's more, she said, Code2040 estimates that 1.4 million tech jobs will be created in the next three years, but 70 % of them will go unfilled.

There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.

«If we don't act, in the next five years we'll be saying the same things: that Greece isn't going well, that there are no jobs... that we have a new program by the International Monetary Fund and European Union to support us,» the 25 - year - old said.

Host Amanda Boleyn went through a similar journey when she quit a corporate job five years ago, and now, she's devoted much of her time to telling stories that will inspire others to stop thinking about their dreams and start chasing them.

But the fact that China has lost more manufacturing jobs than the U.S. over the past 20 years is a strong indication that playing hardball with the Chinese isn't going to do anything to increase employment in the United States.

Maybe that's why he is one of the rare breed of CEOs who has held the top job for 17 years and is still going strong.

The eventual number of jobs going is expected to be balanced out by increased hiring in India, China and Boston, with more than 500 posts being created over the next two years.

Under Title III of the JOBS Act, a company can raise $ 1 million a year from the crowd without having to go through the very expensive process of registering those securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

With the madness that sometimes comes with my full - time job and two kids under four years old, we both agreed that if we're going to do this crazy 5 - year mortgage pay off extravaganza then we still need to have fun.

However, fast - forward many years later and job seekers have gone on «auto - pilot» with respect to cover letters.

There are certain creative jobs where you know you are the person on the line, and there are few guarantees that you're going to be able to crank out hits every year.

Wing's first leader was famed MIT robotics scientist Nick Roy, who worked there during a two - year sabbatical and then went back to his tenured job at MIT.

We lose incredible talent in our workforce every year as millions of Americans are faced with the absurd choice of going to work sick or staying home and losing their pay, or perhaps even their jobs.

According to PayScale's results at least, «Men tend to go into engineering, computer science, management roles and director roles more so than women, and those jobs see fairly consistent pay increases year in and year out,» Bardaro says.

Almost two years have gone by without Cyrus releasing any of her own new music, and since that's her actual day job, Maleeny said that putting some new product out there, even for free, is critical.

«Any job where you get the majority of your training in school and the first few years of your career is not going to see much pay growth after that,» says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at PayScale.

No sooner does an individual go through years of schooling, apprenticeship or on - the - job training, does this DNA activate, driving the corresponding behaviors.

Training and expense costs are tax deductible for Olympians but most Olympic competitors spend years working regular jobs or going to school while enduring grueling practice sessions that push bodies to their breaking points.

«When businesses get these breaks and special deals from governments, you see they promise a bunch of jobs that they usually can't deliver; they promise a bunch of economic growth that doesn't happen; and then once their 5 -, 10 -, 15 - year deal has expired, then... they're looking to either re-up those special agreements or they're going to move somewhere else,» Barnes said.

«I believe technology is going to be substituting many jobs over the next 20 years.

Those jobs have been disappearing for years — and, not to sound hard - hearted, thank goodness they're going away.

This happens every 25 or 50 years, people get all amped up about «machines are going to take all the jobs» and it never happens.»

With a «real» job, our combined income could go up anywhere from $ 20 - 40k per year This would allow us to pay debt and save at 2 - 3 times our current rate.

If not, they can go work a job for a couple years, save some money, and then start buying things at thrifts stories, garage sales, AliBaba, eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, or Letgo and start flipping them on Etsy, by arbitraging the different marketplaces on the internet.

This group of 18 - to 29 - year - olds has been told they must go to college in order to find a decent job.

These numbers are a great goal but unless you have your own successful business or a six - figure job that you planning on committing 30 years to I'm afraid it's not going to happen.

But in recent years, many H - 1B visas have gone to temporary immigrants who lacked special skills and displaced American workers from jobs.

«I'm pretty sure there are going to be new jobs 10 or 20 years from now that none of us could even imagine today,» Chavez said.

On June 19, 2015, three years after the JOBS Act was signed, Title IV (Regulation A +) of the JOBS Act went into effect, allowing private early - stage companies to raise money from all Americans.

«Would you rather have cheap subsidized... goods dumped into Walmart and not have a job and not have your wages go up in 15 years, or would you like to pay a little bit more — not much — a little bit more, and have a job and have your wages going up?

And for the third time, real wages are going nowhere fast (2/3 of 1.5 % is due to oil prices) while an extra million people exited the job market the last four years unrelated to demographics (aging boomers).

Earlier this year, thousands of AT&T workers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsourcing.