Novartis has suffered from this itself, but Mr Vasella says turnover is highest among employees, such as those in sales and marketing, whose skills transfer readily from one industry to another.
And the fact that top-tier racing game players have proved their mettle in actual race cars when given proper training implies that there are many useful skills that transfer from the virtual world to the real one.
On July 5th Kyodo, a news agency, reported that 21 Chinese were among 27 foreign trainees who died last year on a government-sponsored skills-transfer scheme for developing countries that over the past four years has brought in an average of 94, 000 workers a year, mostly from China.
Workers displaced by the latter sort of shock take longer to find jobs, and may struggle to transfer skills and get the same level of pay.
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To believe otherwise is to believe that someone (the college professor) who for the most part lacks any background in the real-world application of finance could transfer skills to those who desire that real-world knowledge.
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Rather than disengaging from Iraq, we will shift the focus to a civilian-led effort to transfer the skills and expertise that will enable Iraqis to unleash their country's great potential.
It needs offshore oil and gas companies to get involved with skills and technology they can transfer into marine power.
"Teachers, with their hard work, affection and stimulating interaction with children, not only transfer information, knowledge, and new skills to their pupils, but also play a key role in making the teaching-learning a joyful and participatory phenomenon".
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.
He found that an employee with prior athletic experience was able to transfer the lessons of being a team player and also noticed strengths in accomplishment-based skills, discipline, and communication.
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