Sentence examples for portable skills from inspiring English sources

Kloosterman (2010) describes a 'global elite' of 'highly skilled immigrants with their portable skills …. who flock to innovative places where their specific talents can be used best' (p.36).

Instead, he needs portable skills, updated regularly.

People with portable skills flee, and those with money stash it offshore.

Careers are not confined to specialisms, and employers value the many portable skills gained.

Today, he says, a third of workers have the portable skills and ambition necessary to become successful free agents.

Gone are the days of "a job for life", so the focus should be on externally recognised training so individuals can accumulate portable skills that allow them to progress in their careers.

"It's a very portable skill so I could go back to it".

Fortunately, my mum was a trained nurse, and she was able to call upon that portable skill-set to reinvent her life and provide for us.

"While we do recruit a lot of chemists into R&D, chemistry is a very portable skill set," says Jez Chance of AstraZeneca in the U.K. "We have chemists in lots of different parts of our business".

Having a portable skill is vital to funding your adventures and can be anything from teaching subjects such as English or music, to growing and harvesting crops on an organic farm.

Team training activities are often designed to develop generalizable, portable teamwork skills that learners can apply across different settings and health care teams.