noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prospective employer
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Smart appearance is important to most prospective employers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Gordon Brown also promised Labour would be good news for big employers ... like the nearby Rover plant in Cowley.
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The biggest employer got to be the county prison.
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Although we were the biggest employer in Britain, we had no serious employee-involvement policies.
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The biggest employer is the manufacturer of La-Z-Boy recliners.
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It became the biggest local employer , with a basic work-force of about 1,500, and numerous additional contractors constantly in demand.
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For more than a hundred years the federal government was the biggest employer in the District of Columbia.
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Away from the big employers most of the part-time farmers found employment with small rural businesses.
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One of the biggest employers in Gloucestershire has been taken over.
large
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Both government agencies and large employers encouraged immigration from the Commonwealth to meet labour shortages throughout the 1950s.
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At one point in 1993, Employee Staffing was the largest employer in Rhode Island.
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General Dynamics, five years ago the largest local industrial employer , is gone.
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But that possibility is faint, and the prospects of another large employer ever using the site are even more remote.
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The factories, the largest employers in their respective areas, are of vital importance to their local economies.
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Some large employers are also cutting jobs.
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Neill's was one of the largest employers of women and therefore one of the main targets of possible strike action.
local
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For example, it is taking steps to discover what local employers and businesses need and want from their employees.
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General Dynamics, five years ago the largest local industrial employer , is gone.
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It became the biggest local employer , with a basic work-force of about 1,500, and numerous additional contractors constantly in demand.
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You may have heard very positive things about a local employer .
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Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate.
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But many expatriates are working for themselves, or for local employers who make no employee pension provision.
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He has reached the top at a relatively early age and now leads the largest local industrial employer .
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Firefighters suspend ballot Britain's firefighters have suspended a ballot on strike action after pay talks with local authority employers .
major
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Their decisions are binding on industrial tribunals and have had a significant impact on managerial practices by major employers .
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Federal, State, and local governments are major employers , accounting for 1 of every 3 budget analyst jobs.
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An annual scheme brings together major employers in the engineering industry and students from schools, or more usually, colleges.
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Boeing, the region's major private employer , closed its Seattle-area factories until Thursday.
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All of them are major employers .
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Every major employer in the area ensures that their workforces are trained to uniformly high standards.
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Because of the isolation nearly all the off-farm employment was rural, with the Forestry Commission being the major employer .
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Primary Production Agriculture, forestry, fishing and tourism are major employers in DRAs.
new
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Utah, in particular, needs all the new employers it can find.
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It hired a team of people with business experience to aggressively recruit new employers for work-based learning experiences.
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She'd had no idea that her new employer was waiting!
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Finding five new potential employers can often be extremely difficult.
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These old bodies could cost a new employer thousands in worker comp.
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On 17 September 1990 the respondent attended the key department together with his new employer .
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It can take months and years to lure new employers to a region.
potential
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How will you describe yourself to a potential employer ?
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Finding five new potential employers can often be extremely difficult.
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The answers to these questions will have important consequences for anyone who is about to choose a career or a potential employer .
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They strengthen the ties between students and potential employers .
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One particularly gifted black student refused to be stereotyped into teaching only ESOl and literacy by potential employers .
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The notebooks and the focused career exploration give stun dents a sense of accomplishment and something to show to potential employers .
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The most important task now is to promote to potential employers the benefit of employing members of this Institute.
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But what alternative is there if you are unknown to a potential employer ?
previous
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It is necessary with every unemployment claim for previous employers to advise such information.
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My previous employer gave us four weeks of vacation after 10 years.
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Pensions may be received from two main sources: the state and previous employers .
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If you run down the character of your previous employer , you will run yourself down in the process.
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Abilities or aptitudes can be tested psychologically; experience can be validated by talking to peers or previous employers .
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The vacation time you accumulated with your previous employer has to be honored, usually by that employer.
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My previous employers were keen on understatement rather than fireworks.
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New employees normally produce a P45 on which their national insurance numbers will have been entered by their previous employers .
private
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Staff training and development for private sector employers .
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J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
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There is also substantial private investment by employers in training for their staff which the Government encourage through the manpower training scheme.
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The Supreme Court pointed out that its decision has no effect on drug testing by private employers .
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Mr. Bowis A minimum wage involves the Government dictating to private employers what they should pay their workers.
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Some private employers , including hotels and news organizations, have the opposite problem.
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In the main, they will be private sector employers operating in a free market and looking to secure an edge over their competitors.
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The city and some private employers also extend medical benefits to gay employees' partners.
prospective
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Some prospective employers were more concerned with my nursery arrangements than with my qualifications.
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Writing a resume of your achievements that will make a prospective employer want to meet you requires practice.
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It is important to be able to prove to prospective employers that you have the relevant experience for the job.
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This tells your prospective employer that you are very positive and that you know where you are going.
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It is a good idea to take along a number of copies of your c.v. which you can leave with prospective employers .
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Each of these had a specific meaning for prospective employers .
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After beating incredible odds to prove himself a classroom genius, Steven has been cruelly snubbed by prospective employers .
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To protect yourself, experts recommend you ask a prospective employer for a contract.
■ VERB
allow
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Fortunately, the government is generous and allows employers various ways to reduce tax and national insurance payments.
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It also allowed and even encouraged employers to threaten workers who want to organize.
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In the standard form the contractor must pay to or allow the employer the liquidated damages.
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Current federal law allows employers to sponsor up to 140, 000 immigrants each year for specific jobs.
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Job Centres allow employers to put age limits in the vacancies they display and the Government will not stop this practice.
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Democrats contend it would undermine unions by allowing employers , rather than employees, to select workers to include in talks.
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It will also allow employers to take steps to safeguard jobs and businesses.
hire
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A more simple option would be a cash subsidy to employers who hired the long-term unemployed.
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This is because the older workers' protected situation may make employers reluctant to hire them.
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Despite that perception, 69 percent of employers say they are hiring just as many teens as they did 10 years ago.
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For example, in one case, an employer refused to hire a visually impaired applicant for the position of research analyst.
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About 36 percent of employers plan to boost hiring the rest of this year.
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Apply slightly tougher standards for employers who hire temporary foreign workers for specialty jobs in the high-tech industry and elsewhere.
pay
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If the government puts a tax on employers for every worker they employ, who pays - the employers?
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These taxes are paid by both employers and employees.
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The prescribed element is, in effect, frozen for the time being and should not be paid by the employer .
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Contributions are earnings related, paid by both employer and employees, as are the pension payments.
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The government, like any employer , would pay the employer share of their premiums into the alliances.
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Non-Contributory/Partial Contributory Schemes Where the premium is paid wholly or partly by the employer benefits should be paid directly to the employer.
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Benefits paid by employers are declining, while copayments and deductibles are increasing.
provide
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It is therefore very important that schools provide a forum for employers to express and explain their concerns.
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It provided employers with a cheap labour force.
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Where this is provided by employers it is important for the costs to be properly recognised and funded.
require
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The defence requires employers to identify the essential functions of the job.
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The 1-page standard would require employers to provide special training to injured workers and others handling the same duties.
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The police were not competent to enforce the civil provisions, which required that employers should do so.
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These require employers to assess users' workstations to ensure they meet certain standards.
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One of its powers is to make recommendations requiring an employer to recognize a particular trade union as a negotiating body.
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The other is dominated by workers with few skills, other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers .
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The inspector is required to give the employer the same information as he gives to the employed person.
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The course will develop a range of competences required by employers , together with the skills of versatility, adaptability and organisation.
work
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This means the agency is paid by, and in effect is working for, the employer .
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Support teams work with employers and fellow workers in a training programme and are also on call if there are problems.
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One reason Siemens promotes school-to-\#work so actively among employers nationwide is to prevent other businesses from stealing its graduates.
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You work for your employer , the local authority.
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If both parents in a family work , both employers would share the cost of the family premium.
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It may be that you do homeworking as a self-employment, freelance or consultancy option, or working for an employer .
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Uneven Commitment Level Companies often discover that the capacity and interest of individual schools to work with employers differ.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She applied to her employer for a redundancy payment, but she was refused.
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We will need a reference from your last employer before we can send you a contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Customer satisfaction, as measured by parent and employer surveys, has improved.
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For example, it is taking steps to discover what local employers and businesses need and want from their employees.
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He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer .
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In practice, 70 percent of employers pay their workers less than the legal minimum wage, according to Mr Masduki.
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Most had never received visits from employers with job openings for high school graduates.
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Subjecting applicants or employees to medical examinations is not the only means that employers have used to screen out disabled employees.
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The plaintiff window cleaner was instructed by his employers in the sill method of cleaning windows.