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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a proficient worker" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is skilled and competent in their job or tasks.
Example: "She is known as a proficient worker, consistently delivering high-quality results on time."
Alternatives: "an adept employee" or "a skilled professional."
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A proficient worker can plant six or more trees a minute.
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If the supply of technically proficient workers gets a big boost, wages would likely fall, at least modestly.
As noted by Eraut ([ 18] p.261), when the pressure for productivity forces staff to perform tasks at a speed beyond what even proficient workers consider appropriate "…then quality falls, the level of risk is higher and job satisfaction plummets".
In general, however, given time, the number of proficient workers available to follow a given occupation will be increased by a rise in the relative rate of pay it offers.
Over-skilling is associated with a substantial waste of skills, as workers who are over skilled in literacy appear to use their skills at work substantially less than similarly proficient workers who are well-matched, namely 5.3% lower usage of literacy and 1% lower usage of numeracy.
Table 9 shows that, on average, across countries, the indicator of literacy use at work for individuals who are under-skilled in literacy is about 16.3% higher than the corresponding indicator for similarly proficient workers who are well-matched, suggesting that they do actually over-use their skills.
Second, exploiting the rich background questionnaire of the PIAAC survey, it is possible to compare the utilization of skills in the workplace by similarly proficient workers who are well-matched or mismatched in their jobs, thus constructing indicators of the degree of under- and over-utilization of skills associated with mismatch.
Schools would become true learning centers, because students would trust and experience schools as sanctuaries devoted primarily to their growth, not factories churning out academically proficient workers.
It's a proficient band.
He is a proficient juggler.
Yet Herrmann was never a proficient performer.
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