Nevertheless, in a continent where education is a way to the city, a suit and an office job, finding well-qualified people to stand in the open fields all day will not be easy.
There were also no daycare centers in my city, Worcester, Massachusetts, for children under 3, so I had no place to put my son while working an office job, even if I could have afforded it.
Jezegabel also grew up outside Paris, the son of a newspaper editor and a lawyer. (In addition to a lot of silver jewelry and a black onyx ring, he wears a vintage Timex compass watch with a grosgrain band.) Unlike Jourden, he's worked on bikes from an early age and has never held an office job.
An office holder with a job approval rating consistently in the mid 40% range might be scrambling to present a new face to voters.
Soon after he got a new job in an office that included a fellow alum.
"Companies can get 50 applications every week and all of them start to look the same, " Mr. Peitersen said, while sitting in an office not far from the job seekers sitting in windows.
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The England Women's rugby captain decided the summer months would be best spent dedicating herself to her sport and so, sacrificing the security of a monthly wage, she resigned from her job as an office manager to pursue her ultimate goal of winning the Women's World Cup.
She plans to apply to an office-supply store, an electronics store and for a telecommunications job she could do from her home in western New York.
In the video below he talks about his first summer job, as an office assistant at a federal research lab in Maryland, where his responsibilites included mopping up the mess after safety showers were tested.
There seems to be a genuine feeling among some people in the workplace that a real job takes place in an office.
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Further, we should create an Office of Innovation Assessment, with the job of staying current about innovation developments beyond science and technology, and outside our borders, and equipping Americans with the knowledge they need to stay competitive.
Sara Sutton Fell, CEO and founder of Flexjobs, says a successful transition to a new office job generally starts with becoming an integral and valued part of the team.
Mr. Volcker had finished up a job on Wall Street and needed an office when he ran into Mr. Ravitch.
All too often, these bright and ambitious recruits see work as something to avoid or as a necessary evil to endure prior to winning the lottery, landing a spot on a reality television show, or getting a cushy, high-paying job with a corner office and an expense account.
He quit his job to avoid the Net and now works as an office manager at much lower pay.
When city officials wanted to promote a job-creation plan in 2005, they used ads depicting an office full of Mannekens at computers and in meetings.
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His main job at the outset will be helping the Treasury to build an office of financial research, created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law to mine market data for threats to financial stability.
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He has filed at least 75 cases this year on behalf of his new client, Michael DiPirro, a jazz musician who got a job as an investigator with Chanler's firm while dating the office receptionist.
For example, if an employer can demonstrate that a typing test and skills tests using Microsoft Office software products constitute a fair sample of the content of an administrative assistant job, then the tests will probably be considered content valid.
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Sometimes an office's culture can be so dysfunctional you can find it impossible to do your job.
After quitting a job as an executive director in the fixed-income group in the London office of Goldman Sachs, Sulger, now 33, moved to Shanghai knowing no Mandarin.
His career began properly in 1953 when he walked into the CBS office in New York and persuaded network officials to give him a job as an assistant director.
Until quite recently, every smart office block in Sao Paulo used to employ an "ascensorista" - a person whose sole job was to ride up and down in the lifts all day, pushing buttons that the occupants could easily have pressed for themselves.
In his first job at the Department of Justice in Miami, he convinced his superiors that the office should have an Internet connection.
He has already formed an alliance with the opposition Christian Democrats, and they are reported to have offered him the job if they win office.
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Last December the attorney general startled voters by announcing he will leave office in January 1999, abandoning a promising career in Democratic politics for an as-yet-undisclosed investment banking job.
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