We go to great effort to learn how to read and calculate in school and then invest even more time and effort to learn professional skills, from evaluating market research to judging the success of a campaign.

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The reality is that human interaction skills are vastly more important in terms of influencing professional success.

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"His athletic skills and leadership and his professional accomplishments have been a source of pride for Rutgers for more than three decades, " it said.

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The second step happens at the collegiate and professional level, where we must do more to train and certify individuals for the highly specialized, marketable skills needed to take advantage of these latest technologies.

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We had never formally structured it, but with the recent success of our Aspire Learning Consortium for Starcraft 2 and the big announcement from Riot Games for Season 3, we wanted to create a more specific way for players and teams to work towards a professional level of competition, or for eager gamers to gain skills they could utilize in the professional space.

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