"desirable skill" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a skill that is highly sought after or preferred in a certain job or field. Example: "Excellent communication and problem-solving skills are desirable skills for any sales position."
If you're taking on more responsibility or are bringing in a desirable skill set, those are reasons to talk with your boss about getting paid accordingly.
Maybe they're afraid of their own emotional reactions and trying to practice tamping them down -- an understandably desirable skill in a culture that values stoicism.
Never mind, of course, that post-crisis employers in the U.S. overwhelmingly affirm critical thinking as the most desirable skill college graduates can acquire!
Nephrologists have demonstrated greater clinical aptitude for assessing urine microscopy than their laboratory counterparts, making urinalysis another desirable skill for trainees [ 19].
Creativity is a highly desirable skill at any age and has been considered to vary or change during the aging process.
Neither students nor tutors realized that developing skills to perform any kind of assessment and decision making is one of the aims to the small group dynamic and it is also a desirable skill to the future doctors' profile, as described in the pedagogic project of the Medical School.
Desirable skills, he says, include unarmed combat, driving and firearms experience (the last through service with the police or armed forces).
This is true but, as with most industries, the most desirable skills in new recruits are good communication, drive and the ability to demonstrate the commercial value of their work to their clients' bottom line.
Unemployment remains at a high level, but those concerned about inflation say that general stimulus will not help because the problems are structural, including, for example, a lack of desirable skills.
In the past, as the Republic of Ireland was attracting the likes of Google and Dell, its troubled northern neighbour found it tougher, despite offering low costs and desirable skills.
Others may not want to learn coding, and that's because they'll be onto learning something else, something that we haven't even heard of yet – and no amount of predicting the future and hothousing them in today's most desirable skills will get them ready for whatever that may be.
