Sentence examples for big skill from inspiring English sources

"But when the current CFO retired, we looked at him and realized that he still had some big skill gaps that hadn't been identified and it would take another two to three years to close them," says Tracey Wallace, senior director for organizational development at ATCO. "We learnt it the hard way that we should have a fully integrated program – and that the AMP was just one part of the whole process".

That's the big skill, even more than being able to compose some film and being able to expose it properly.

I think Roger's big skill was that he was a very good writer, but he wrote in a language that wasn't above anybody's head.

This is the next big skill for kissers to learn.

Deputy chief constable David Thompson says the partnership resulted in a "big skills transfer" and allowed the force to create better services in the face of financial challenges.

"The recession has caused a big skills exodus, but it happens in construction, it's a cycle – things suddenly fall off a cliff.

"If Britain voted for Brexit, there would still be a big skills gap, especially in areas which require science, maths or engineering degrees, where we just don't have enough UK graduates," he said.

"We are quite often not worth the money... but there is a big skills gap for really good IT directors and that pushes up salaries," says Jos Creese, president of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.

At current labour-force participation rates, Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal will need productivity growth of 1.4% a year more than twice what they managed between 1990 and 2010 simply to keep up recent growth rates in output per head.Taken together, these developments will lead to big skills imbalances.

"Those are the types of skills that employers are looking for and there's quite a big skills gap as of now and many of these efforts are pushing students in to a place where they have better chances of employability".

And it's beginning to realise that specifically in the professions where we have a big skills shortage, they should revise their whole approach to affirmative action, to such an extent that a very important minister in the cabinet recently, I think, here in London said, "affirmative action is dead".