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hire

[hahyuhr] / haɪər /


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“At the end of the day, firms want to hire and promote the right employees,” Pacelli told Harvard’s Jay Fitzgerald.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

The problem is, it’s a three-way tug-of-war between businesses, tech companies and consulting firms to hire from an extremely small pool of FDE talent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Companies are reluctant to hire more people in part to manage costs.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

The department has sought $15,000 from the City Council to hire an outside law firm to represent the city with negotiations with a company called 44 Blue Productions LLC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“You could...convince him to hire me, couldn’t you?”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Avoiding future hires differs from laying off existing employees.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

That popular Griffith Park event hires about 200 performers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

An employer in the UK, who hires a worker with no legal right to work, faces being fined.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

It hires gig workers in fields as far-flung as astronomy, creative writing, law and investment banking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The city hires people like her to work with summer students whose schools don’t have speech facilities, or not enough of them.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

In 2024, the company hired its first researcher to study “model welfare,” conducting experiments exploring the subjective experiences and potential consciousness of AI, and whether it requires moral consideration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Ferrero was hired by Zverev as an outside voice coming into a father-son coaching dynamic, but the German fired him after claiming Ferrero was "disrespectful" to his team.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Sytner hired Porsche experts including Andy Prill and automotive writer Doug Nye to study his acquisition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Luis Grande, head of the Baires Fly airline which carried Bolsonaro, told AFP on Thursday he had been hired by a broker "who lives in the United States."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

I find Tía Zimbul waiting there with a man she has hired to transport us to the seaport.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Financial pressures at some charter operators can also influence hiring decisions, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Both were highly critical of ballooning legal costs under Feldstein Soto, as well as her penchant for hiring outside law firms to fight the city’s battles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Healthcare providers again led the way in hiring, as they have for the past few years.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

But Luna denies that deputies are fleeing the department and says he’s taken major steps to improve the hiring process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

They w as doing a lot of hiring at a munitions plant in California and people was saying that the pay was supposed to be good.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson


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