Selected for aptitude and local knowledge, men were mostly recruited from the Home Guard which also provided a cover for their existence.
They must concentrate first on building up local groups of indigenous experts, with aptitude for training others, organized if possible on an institutional basis.
We will end all selection by aptitude and restore to local authorities the decision on whether schools in their areas can select by ability – scrapping this government's complex balloting arrangements.
A violin and piano dilettante who once performed in a local garage band called Kaleidoscope, Carpenter's true aptitude for music began to flourish when scoring his late 70s and early 80s films, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween and Escape from New York.
The best way to hire workers, said Paul Evans, a British special forces veteran who manages operations in Iraq for Janusian Security Risk Management, a British company, is to adopt local customs: instead of relying on background checks and aptitude tests, consult the local sheik.
Anderson enrolled at the local polytechnic, flirted with a career in architecture, and developed an aptitude for plaster modelling, which triggered dermatitis.
Over the last seven months, she has taken leadership classes at a local business school, attended networking events and taken a battery of aptitude tests to measure her strengths and weaknesses.
Dibango's musical aptitude became evident at an early age through his singing at the local church, where his mother was a choir leader.
I would love to have a place with O Lar's culinary aptitude close to home — and the restaurant indeed swarms with appreciative locals.
It was only in October that year that she tried it at a taster session at her local athletics club – after several years of heptathlon and gymnastics – and found she had an aptitude for the event.
