This was no government-issued textbook: she had built this giant textbook on her own time, from her own work and experience, and updated it every year.
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The common thread is work and leadership experience in a related field.
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As a practical prescription for improving the economy, the empirical evidence is clear in my view that discretionary Keynesian policy does not work and the experience of the past three years confirms this view.
The MIT Sloan School of Management introduced its "competency model" in 2000, creating a four-zone grid that measures demonstrated success, such as test scores and standout work experience, and personal attributes, such as relationship-building skills and sensitivity to others.
Speaking to the first issue, I know from my work history and experience that disconnects can indeed occur between those who spend their time inside offices at a distant office headquarters and those who work the business in the field.
Issues to be considered include financial obstacles to access and progression, the role of work experience and internships, recruitment practices and what can be done to encourage new applicants for certain jobs.
The only thing less attractive to an employer than a 16-year-old with a crummy education, no experience and underdeveloped work habits is a 24-year-old with a crummy education, no experience and underdeveloped work habits.
This comes in many forms, such as problem-solving creativity, special knowledge and skills, work experience, and willingness to risk investment capital for promising new enterprises.
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As well as core subjects such as maths and languages, students can also do work experience and voluntary placements.
"Most people are free of the mental and physical burdens of work on a Sunday and experience a more stressful change from weekend leisure activities to work activities on Mondays, " said Dr Shuogo Murakami, who led the research.
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Women entrepreneurs are as highly educated as their male counterparts, have the same early interest in starting their own business, and learn the same valuable lessons from their work experience and from prior successes and failures.
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"The truth is that the first step to getting a job and getting back into the jobs market is having some work experience and learning to work and turning up for work on time and being part of a relied on team, " he said.
Successful programmes combining classroom training and work experience in the region are effectively paving the way between school and work.
Because women are more likely to leave and then re-enter the workforce, they often have diverse skills and more work experience than their male counterparts, and greater tolerance for risk.
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Employment Minister Chris Grayling pointed to action the government was taking to boost business - through the Regional Growth Fund and enterprise zones - as well as the work experience scheme and Work Programme which was having "good success" in getting people in to work.
Also, men typically accumulate more continuous work experience and therefore acquire higher productivity in the labor market.
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More than 100 training courses and work experience placements will be offered.
Moreover, you ignore the fact that immigrants' family members already possess valuable work experience and talent that strengthens America as a whole.
This charity has campaigned to improve the quality of careers education, highlighting the link between social mobility and access to career advice and work experience.
She had no work experience and no clue about managing money.
Much of what prior generations have learned through work experience and apprenticeships, we have learned in ways that are not so easily reflected on a curriculum vitae.
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Meanwhile, for the past three years Stanford students could opt to join a database that tracks their ideal industries and geographies, as well as academic credentials and work experience.
The students I accompanied had several entrepreneurs who already had work experience and showed a great deal of interest in how they might expand the scope of their budding enterprises.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said the launch of sector-based economies across the UK would offer training, work experience and a guaranteed job interview to up to 50, 000 people over the next two years.
The country's historic "points system, " in which the government selected immigrants based on a set of broad skills such as education, work experience and language, has not worked very well in choosing immigrants who succeed in the job market.
Getting a job at one, even if part-time or unpaid, is a good way to not only acquire relevant work experience and connections, but also to establish that desire or willingness to work that Wall Street firms look for in entry-level candidates.
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Surveys show that some 50% to 80% of us dream about work, with a significant portion admitting they often wake up in a cold sweat and experience work nightmares once or more a week.
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She said her main barrier when finding work and apprenticeships was her lack of experience and she hoped this course will help her to gain employment at the end of it.
Do women have an equal chance to develop trusting relationships that lead to great work assignments, exposure and experience?
Programmes are aimed at youth from low-income families and those who have low educational attainment and limited work experience.
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