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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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Successful programmes combining classroom training and work experience in the region are effectively paving the way between school and work.

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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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Also, men typically accumulate more continuous work experience and therefore acquire higher productivity in the labor market.

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Moreover, you ignore the fact that immigrants' family members already possess valuable work experience and talent that strengthens America as a whole.

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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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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.

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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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Do women have an equal chance to develop trusting relationships that lead to great work assignments, exposure and experience?

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Programmes are aimed at youth from low-income families and those who have low educational attainment and limited work experience.

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