Developing and retaining highly skilled professionals is therefore a crucial long-term investment for any country.

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The meeting will bring together experts and highly skilled professionals to debate openly drought issues and discuss the IDI road map.

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Children need teachers who are rewarded as highly skilled professionals.

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The true challenge for Wikipedia is to overcome misconceptions about the way it works among highly skilled professionals and to provide incentives to these same professionals to chip in to articles.

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Now LinkedIn's database was rich not just with Silicon Valley programmers and venture capitalists but also with Wall Street traders, Texas geologists and highly skilled professionals of all callings outside the U.S. Talent hunters were ready to pay big-time for a chance to connect with the entire LinkedIn community.

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He said recruiting highly-skilled professionals would help ensure the future of Guernsey's economy, and that free movement of people needed to be examined.

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While there are certainly highly-skilled and in-demand professionals who are able to parlay their hired-gun status into big paydays or renaissance workers who are mashing up day jobs and dream jobs, those who benefit financially from the gig economy are in the minority.

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From the conditions Russia outlines for highly skilled working visa applicants, we were able to identify at least one major need of the country: IT professionals.

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