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
  • This summer, workers across the country are staring down the barrel of on-the-job illness, injury, or death due to extreme heat.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024
  • 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
  • During Mars’ six-week passage through Taurus, achieving an on-the-job milestone is your focus.
    USA TODAY, 9 June 2024
  • Others, like Blattner Energy and Vestas, will provide on-the-job training for new hires.
    Morgan Smith,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The company is a contractor of the U.S. Department of Energy, which has rules to prevent on-the-job overheating.
    Cathy Bussewitz, The Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The new staff who were on-the-job training expressed their excitement to begin their positions, stated the training was good, and genuinely were happy with their decision to join the team.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2024
  • 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
  • The instructor is supposed to: Routinely observe and evaluate the student’s on-the-job performance.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 21 June 2024
  • Does your employer offer on-the-job training or tuition subsidies?
    Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Instead of sitting for the multiday bar exam, which most states offer twice a year, new graduates can be admitted to practice in Oregon through on-the-job training.
    Erika Bolstad, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • 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
  • By comparison, predecessor Laxman Narasimhan had nearly six months of on-the-job training before taking over in March 2023, and only presented his first strategic overview a month later.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2024

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