She then transitioned into dance management, becoming the associate manager for dance legend Ben Vereen.

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Wendy Trevisani, associate portfolio manager with Thornburg Investment Management, says E-Trade will succeed with its diversification from pure trading into banking and lending products.

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Wendy Trevisani, an associate portfolio manager with Thornburg Investment Management, picks E-Trade.

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And Rami Bitar, associate product manager at YouTube, discussed one of the challenges the young Googlers hope they can master as his group tries to figure out new ways to grow the video site's user base.

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As a result, associate looks to manager, manager looks to vice president, and so on, until everyone ends up doing things that more or less adhere to the culture.

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Retail work, including store manager and associate, ranks No. 2, and UPS driver helper is No. 3.

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If your dream company decided to hire a new sales associate, the hiring manager would completely forego the job ad and contact you directly to see if you were interested.

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He has held a variety of positions in the publishing industry including product development manager, editor-in-chief and most recently associate publisher at O'Reilly Media.

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Like any good brand manager, Russell Griggs, executive director of Scotland the Brand, is hoping to get consumers to associate certain desirable qualities with Scottish produce.

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