Sentence examples for narrow skills from inspiring English sources

Boards now see less of a need for their strategic vision and more for the strong, if narrow, skills and operating experience of younger candidates.

When people think about retraining, they often think about very specific and narrow skills, whereas your own personal skill set is much more important.

Unemployment remains stubbornly high, in part because of our narrow skills base.It is for this reason that my administration is stressing education in plans for the next five years.

Training them in the narrow skills that a particular company demands might help them in the short term, but a strengthened K-12 education system would give them a much wider range of options.

In contrast, the division of labour, the specialization of narrow skills, the detailed engineering specification of how each task is to be carried out, and the assemblage of large numbers of employees in great manufacturing plants have greatly diluted the identification of employees with their productive functions and with their employers.

Both commentators, like many others writing today, worry that in our results oriented regime, the study of history, literature and the arts is being compromised or eliminated in favor of narrow skills that fit into so-called objective tests.

Despite the increasing recognition that adult learning improves people's general wellbeing and mental state, for too many adults the choice of education is largely restricted to narrow skills-for-work programmes, he says.

When he stuck to his own catalog — "Bad Boy for Life," "I Need a Girl Pt. 2," — Diddy was a force, not even slowed by his own narrow skill as a rapper or his even narrower skill as a singer.

On top of that, "unemployment rates were high, but even higher for narrow skill sets within the Web development scene," Mr. Taylor said.

For employers who recruit economists with first-class degrees, only to find that they possess very narrow skill sets, lack communication skills, and have little knowledge of real economies, the current curriculum hurts their bottom line.

New teachers need to be more than narrow skill trainers and sorters of students.