They were selected for their skills with people, and they studied the methods developed by Knight and others.

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The country's historic "points system, " in which the government selected immigrants based on a set of broad skills such as education, work experience and language, has not worked very well in choosing immigrants who succeed in the job market.

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Large employers should learn how to internally transfer and retrain their existing staff rather than, yet again, complaining about skills shortages while at the same time firing the annual 10% of randomly selected people.

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