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on the job

adverb as in on the ball

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With the right person in the right job, the need for on-the-job support is diminished.

That means more on-the-job training, and more apprenticeships that set a young worker on an upward trajectory for life.

In the process, we've shut down other, traditional sources of mobility, like on-the-job experience.

Human capital, for example, is built through public education, private education, and on-the-job training in the private sector.

More to the point, the army of ex-Clinton staffers were the ones who wouldn't need on-the-job training.

On-the-job training, however, does provide a means for mobility within the industrial labor force.

Few workers have professional school training; most acquire their skills through short courses or on-the-job training.

They found the on-the-job engineering office for the ship in a small dome half a mile from the construction dock.

It's just on-the-job training—you go out with old officers and learn how to dust for prints and take pictures and fingerprints.

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On this page you'll find 429 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to on the job, such as: active, bright, careful, intelligent, observant, and perceptive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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