previous employment

collocation in English

meaningsofpreviousandemployment

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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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employment
noun[U]
uk
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The second most important means of learning the skill is throughpreviousemployment(43.6%).
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Utilizing a longitudinal dataset, she carefully teases out causal relationships and finds surprisingly little relationship betweenpreviousemploymentand later caregiving.
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Small firms produce only what owners learn from theirpreviousemployment.
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Unless a labourer was signed off from hispreviousemployment, it was not legal for another employer to engage him.
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Turning to unemployment benefits, there are two variously generous unemployment benefit systems, for which eligibility is governed bypreviousemploymentand membership in an unemployment benefit society.
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Eight participants expressed a strong need to replace theirpreviousemployment, now that they had retired, with a form of volunteering that would also continue to meet their intellectual needs.
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We define inside directors as those currently employed full-time by the firm and outside directors as those individuals who have no contracts and nopreviousemploymentwith the company.
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Clearly, it is a halfway house between theirpreviousemploymentdirect with the company and going into business with more than one customer.
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A substantial percentage of those in receipt of invalidity benefit today have other resources, in savings or in income from theirpreviousemployment.
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However, these details andpreviousemploymentare usually included in a candidate's curriculum vitae.
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Unemployment benefits depend on the contributions record andpreviousemploymentof claimants as well as on their needs and dependants.
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I have no information as to theirpreviousemployment.
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In other words, the draftsmen, wherever possible, have followed the wording ofpreviousemploymentprotection legislation.
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Previousemploymentrecords are held in individual staff files but extracting this information could be carried out only at disproportionate cost.
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It is important to emphasise that it is only at thepreviousemploymentcheck stage that information can be made available to a prospective employer.
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The right of free movement depends not on residence orpreviousemploymentbut on nationality.
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They are expected to follow good recruitment practices which include interviews, appropriate questioning aboutpreviousemploymentand career gaps, and taking up of references.
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It had the problem of recruiting senior staff who were obliged to give notice to theirpreviousemployment.
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Pre-employment screening takes various forms, including taking up references, medical checks and inquiring aboutpreviousemploymenthistory.
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Others like myself have visited the colony during theirpreviousemployment.
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