Those surveyed by the workforce solutions provider said that the hardest jobs to fill were in skilled trades, engineering and IT.

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Washington, a freed slave who walked 500 miles from the mines of West Virginia to study at Hampton, who argued that these colleges should focus on teaching blacks skilled trades and vocations.

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And, yet, there's enough people interested in it that I have got cooperation from sectors that will be vital to it, you know, the skilled trades, some -- some very gifted contractors who are underutilized, electricians.

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Forty years ago, women with no apparent power, either transactional or economic, moved tens of thousands of women into business and the professions, into the skilled trades, into science, engineering, and, technology, onto police forces and into fire houses.

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Burr said his group opposes such an exclusion because, even though unemployment in the construction industry is high right now, at times when it is low there can be labor shortages in high-skilled trades and contractors want to be able to bring in foreign workers.

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Skilled Healthcare trades at a far lower multiple of just 7 times expected full-year earnings.

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Christian faith was found to be strongest among women aged over 55, and amongst men and women in skilled manual trades.

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If you are skilled and the time is right, you can put on the contrarian hat for some great risk-reward trades.

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