Sentences with phrase «younger career people»

A student or a young career person who really doesn't spend a lot of time where they live.

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Looking back on her career, she says there are a few key principles she has lived by that she'd advise any young person to follow.

But he insists that the skill set is a valuable one to cultivate regardless of a young person's career ambitions.

Once an optional stop on the career path, internships are increasingly becoming de rigeur for young people — often high school, undergraduate, and graduate students — looking for hands on experience in a wide range of fields.

«Young people do not look at sales as a realistic, ideal career path,» says Jamie Scarborough, co-founder of the recruitment firm Sales Talent Agency and a PROFITguide columnist.

The biggest piece of advice I would give a young person is to try to spend time with someone who has had a career like the one that you want, and then do your best to figure out how they do what they do.

Moshe Milevsky, a finance professor at Schulich and one of Canada's best - known home - ownership skeptics, has long argued that for young people with limited means and unrealized career potential, stowing most of their wealth in a single illiquid asset is foolhardy.

Instead of pursuing our dreams as young people, we're often just trying to avoid imaginary pitfalls or conform to a predictable, mythological career path.

So does James Marshall Reilly, the author of new book, Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these days.

And young people aren't the only ones who seek out purpose in their career, not just a paycheck, or who want to make a difference.

Lemann and his partners at Brazilian investment bank Banco Garantia ran a scholarship program that backed promising young people in their early careers.

Upstart backers tend to be individuals who have had entrepreneurial success and want to give back by helping young people pursue their career dreams.

«Especially for young people choosing careers.»

But for every tale of a young person building a start - up in their dorm room or boldly launching a career in social entrepreneurialism from their parents» sofa, there are plenty of press reports of grads who are underprepared for the rough - and - tumble realities of today's economy and fail to find their professional footing.

Plus, Wagner has advice for young people looking to build the innovation skills necessary to have a career less ordinary.

People younger than 30 — typically without children or spouses of their own — have the energy, ambition and bandwidth to make career or entrepreneurial choices which may be too scary later in life.

In 2009 and 2010, as jobs in the U.S. grew increasingly scarce, applications from aspiring teachers — younger people who saw little opportunity to land a full - time gig at home, as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — poured in.

For many young people, the luster has worn off corporate careers.

That's according to career advisor Erin Berkery - Rovner, who contends in her Quora answer that too many young people stick their heads in the sand about others» misguided ideas of their generation.

But while most critiques of Millennials are sensationalist silliness, that doesn't mean that today's young people, like every generation before them, aren't making some serious, career - limiting mistakes.

Here are some of the most useful cautions and advice that employers, fellow Millennials, and professional career advisors offered young people to help them tune up their careers.

But the normal career and family cycles moving young people from cities into suburban houses have become, in Myers» words, «a plugged up drain.»

Do young people view entrepreneurship as a viable career option?

As a career development specialist and one who has worked with young people in and out of schools for 35 + years, I DO promote the notion that finding something you are passionate about is KEY to loving what you do.

«We've heard young people share how they didn't even know about a particular career path,» said Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings - Blake.

This program encourages Manitoba's young people between the ages of 18 and 29 to start their own full - time, year - round business and pursue self - employment as a career choice.

She helps young people start their careers.

«When a young person is starting his or her career, that individual needs advice, inspiration, and connections with others in the business community.

Yet too many young people find that embarking on a career journey with a degree or diploma in hand...

Speaking of career paths, younger people are having a tough time getting good jobs these days.

We're seeing a growing number of young entrepreneurs, starting out in their 20s, but also more and more people are considering a new career in their 50s and 60s and launching their own business.

In order to continue pushing boundaries, there must be a sustained effort to instill in young people the realization that yes, they can grow up to be space explorers — and that pursuing a career in aerospace, astronomy, or STEM - related disciplines can have very real and practical applications in today's commercial space industry.

«With 21 graduated apprentices becoming store managers and 57 shift supervisors, it proves to us that apprenticeships for young people are a genuine alternative to academic study and are a real path to a retail career,» said Lisa Robbins, director of Partner Resources for Starbucks UK.

That's why we're focused on introducing young people to careers in health care and pharmacy, two significantly expanding fields, and ensuring that they are armed with the skills they need to achieve success in not only their careers, but also in life.

For young people just starting their careers, simply saving at all could be a sufficient goal, while those nearing retirement will likely want to have at least a few hundred thousands of dollars in their retirement accounts.

By all means, young people should be considering entrepreneurship as a career option.

The Times points out that many young people actually would like to commit to marriage and family, but feel pressure from their parents to prioritize career.

All those young people who are stretching their ear lobes will eventually have to get them sewn up to advance in any mainstream career.

The proper thing to teach young black males is to stay in school, get good grades, choose a respectable career field, attend church regularly, be kind and couteous to everyone you meet, repect and support the police, stay off drugs, don't steal, don't assault people, and quit thinking the man is out to get you.

Whether it's a 65 - year - old retiree, a young stay - at - home mom or a seemingly successful person at the top of his career, the story is always the same.

The most tragic result is that countless young people who have sensed the despair of the musicians in their churches have never considered a career in church music even though in other respects it appeals to them.

The strongest part of After the Boomers is when Wuthnow does this for young adults: the problems of a particular cohabiting couple or a young person who can't quite find her way in a career.

In an interview with America magazine, Robert P. George offers advice to young people unsure of their careers and vocations:

We see gifted young persons who are interested in the arts and in science, who are drawn to a career in social work or a career in the church.

My favorite part was «Their policy of recruiting and proselytizing young people to become missionaries, with promises of a low - cost education and a good career, is for the sole purpose of adding new members who are willing to add to the coffers of the church.»

Norman Cousins describes humanizing education: «The first aim of education should not be to prepare young people for careers but to enable them to develop respect for life.

Such training in programs of continuing education would involve not only young persons looking toward a career in the church but also church leaders at every level.

When young people today talk about their future, chances are they talk almost exclusively of their career.

I walked into a room full of young people as the one with money, career, and fame.

Our young people ask about roles and careers, but vocation seems like an obsolete idea.