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
  • And no, there is no rehearsal–only on-the-job training.
    Devonne Goode, Parents, 6 Feb. 2025
  • If elected, Atkins said there will be little need for on-the-job training.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Then on-the-job training begins, lasting up to four years and with some failing to make it through.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • More than half have never received on-the-job training.
    Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
  • Many of the jobs require advanced degrees, and new hires often need years of on-the-job training.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • Was this game part of an on-the-job training program for officials?
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In this perilous era, there’s no time for on-the-job training in the nation’s capital.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Simpson said the program provides great on-the-job training.
    Katelynn Winebrenner, Baltimore Sun, 5 May 2025
  • The secret to writing success goes deeper than on-the-job training.
    Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Technical and on-the-job training will provide preparation for the work.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
  • After which they would be required to do on-the-job training in Philadelphia.
    Tom Costello, NBC news, 6 May 2025
  • 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
  • The restaurant makes housing available to its employees in two apartments above the shop and provides them with on-the-job culinary training.
    Kizzy Cox, Essence, 4 June 2025
  • During Mars’ six-week passage through Taurus, achieving an on-the-job milestone is your focus.
    USA TODAY, 9 June 2024
  • As a result, most SMBs are forced to resort to on-the-job training, leading to recurring mistakes, loss of valuable knowledge and high turnover rates.
    Vitaliy Tymoshenko, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Others, like Blattner Energy and Vestas, will provide on-the-job training for new hires.
    Morgan Smith, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Others, like Blattner Energy and Vestas, will provide on-the-job training for new hires.
    Morgan Smith,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Remembering on-the-job training There has been a lot of talk about the value of apprenticeships, trade schools, and non-college ways of learning work skills.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 5 July 2025
  • 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
  • By providing on-the-job training, employers can tap into a wider talent pool.
    Kara Dennison, Sphr, Cprw, Ec, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Talk to your manager about stretch opportunities on-the-job.
    Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • According to Statista, employees say on-the-job, hands-on learning is the most effective learning format.
    Carol Leaman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • The job outlook is faster than average and requires a high school diploma or equivalent and an apprenticeship for on-the-job training.
    Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Their job is to preside over cases that demand both quick responses and quiet deliberation based on years of training and even more years of on-the-job experience.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

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