Education has multiple, complex goals -- creating a technically skilled workforce, nurturing an informed citizenry, promoting a curious, literate, and numerate public, and so forth.
While a sluggish economy factors into the improved average since employees are less likely to jump ship, she said, employers are also more discerning in their hiring practices, and those who offer more opportunities for advancement, competitive compensation and other retention techniques to nurture skilled talent enjoy less attrition down the line.
It also helps to nurture skilled lieutenants who can take over your job when you move up the ladder.
Although he was known to have opposed putting some of these shows on the air, including "Dancing With the Stars," Mr. McPherson was skilled at marketing and nurturing them once they were hits.
Negotiators tend to be empathetic, linguistically skilled, adept at handling people-and nurturing.
To prevent poaching talent from the private sector, the public sector should be nurturing its own pool of skilled specialists; big data analytics should be part of the UK government's new computing curriculum.
Just when the U.S. should be opening its doors wider to skilled foreign workers and be focusing on nurturing startups, it is turning protectionist and xenophobic.
"The UK's startup scene, nurtured by international venture capital and skilled workers' willingness to move here, was starting to create global challengers – and thousands of well-paid jobs.
The UK's start-up scene, nurtured by international venture capital and skilled workers' willingness to move here, was starting to create global challengers – and thousands of well-paid jobs.
Minister of Economic and Business Affairs, Lene Espersen, adds that Denmark encourages scientific entrepreneurship with "a skilled and flexible labor force, and government policy that nurtures new and emerging technologies and innovative companies".
