How to Use on-the-job in a Sentence

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  • Lack of sleep can lead to mistakes at work and is the cause of many on-the-job injuries each year.
    Trey Williams, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • If elected, Atkins said there will be little need for on-the-job training.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Was this game part of an on-the-job training program for officials?
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The secret to writing success goes deeper than on-the-job training.
    Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Ah, your on-the-job experience helped fix a longtime problem.
    WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
  • And facing challenges head-on requires on-the-job adjustments.
    Matt Leach, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Even if security guards dress like police, their on-the-job actions aren’t protected in the same way that officers’ are under the law.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Talk to your manager about stretch opportunities on-the-job.
    Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Their on-the-job education has led to this stark, imperfect, unfinished-but-beautiful tale of Uyghur food and culture.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Working with love Volunteers join the Freyerim group in ninth and 10th grade and receive on-the-job training in agriculture from the farmer being helped and older volunteers.
    Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Tides plans to use its grant to offer paid on-the-job learning opportunities and to create new entry points into the behavioral health field for workers of color.
    Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Over one-third of survey respondents say their employer talked much about DEI during the interview process, but the on-the-job diversity efforts proved far less than promised.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • The one-year apprenticeships involve classroom and on-the-job training, mentoring and support services.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Does your employer offer on-the-job training or tuition subsidies?
    Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Part of that preparation is high-quality on-the-job training in a respectful and safe working environment.
    PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Supervisors should receive on-the-job coaching and be encouraged to improve their leadership habits, says Lovich.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Mentorship and coaching support both the 70% and the 20% of learning; they can be tailored to suit on-the-job learning and collaborative learning experiences.
    Matthew Reeves, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The specific organizations that will host the participants for that kind of on-the-job training are still undetermined.
    Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The school will partner with Airbus and Austal, to name a few, in getting students throughout Baldwin County in 10th through 12th grades real-world and on-the-job training in preparation for a job upon graduation.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • While there's never a guarantee going from coordinator to head coach will be a slam dunk, rarely if ever does somebody get the on-the-job training that Moore was afforded last season.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Being the lone Democrat on the state’s five-member Executive Council has been excellent on-the-job training to be the state’s chief executive, Warmington said.
    Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • But Leung also credited the intense, on-the-job, training regime for his versatility.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Some people say there’s no manual that teaches parents how to raise their children – that such a great responsibility requires on-the-job training.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, Bickert pointed out that their company medical insurance covers them as on-the-job essential items.
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Previously this gap could have been explained by the very real difference between studying the theory of mortuary and the on-the-job experience.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • That sort of on-the-job training has become largely a thing of the past in today’s fragmented and constantly churning TV landscape, with writers shuffling from one short-term gig to another, often taking on second jobs to make ends meet.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2023
  • Another 41% of respondents said formal on-the-job training is the best way to find success professionally, while 37% said life experience is most valuable.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Move Afrika will also work with local vendors, agencies, artists and crews to provide on-the-job skill development and training opportunities.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In an interview after a rehearsal, Blanchard explained how his flexibility — unusual in the world of opera, in which scores, like schedules, are set far in advance — was the result of some early, on-the-job training in his career as a jazz performer.
    Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Alexis Oberg, a clinical research coordinator assistant at Moores for one year, said that the wage structure has resulted in a high turnover rate, with about a quarter of workers in these jobs with little on-the-job experience.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2023

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