Printing is an age-old industry, but facilitating orders online--as Keane's company VistaPrint does--demands a bit of technical skill.
Bolshoi dancers have been known to place crushed glass inside each other's ballet shoes, or set an alarm clock to go off during a tour de force (a feat of technical skill during a ballet performance).
Their businesses need a steady supply of people who can step into jobs involving a lot of technical knowledge and skill.
This involves not only the normal get-to-know you questions and technical tests of programming skill.
"Aaron had an unbeatable combination of political insight, technical skill, and intelligence about people and issues, " wrote his friend Cory Doctorow, co-editor of tech blog Boing Boing.
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The impression they give is a mixture of awe at China's ambition and technical skill and a far more qualified assessment of Chinese companies' ability to run international businesses.
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Whether members of these groups have the requisite technical skill or the funds to create Stuxnet or similar malware is a matter for the respective state agencies to investigate.
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But they do need a certain level of knowledge and skill in order to have a proper appreciation of the technical and psychological issues facing the person they are mentoring.
These are life skills, not just academic skills, and it is the quality of writing and thinking that separates employees with identical technical skill sets.
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The actual training itself was quite technical, with a lot of five-a-sides and skill drills.
There's a tremendous amount of skill and specialization to be able to understand the law and technical issues, as well.
In fact, the largest portion of jobs in our labor market (nearly half) require some kind of technical training beyond a high school diploma, and these "middle-skill" jobs are experiencing the greatest shortages of skilled workers.
This then infiltrated the nation's best-loved game, reinforcing the idea of a "warrior" culture, when grit and determination were valued over technical skill.
The most in-demand skill set in the freelance marketplace is creative and technical talent, comprising 80% of the advertised projects on the site according to the Elance 2012 employment report.
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Lightner has a fondness for things found on forest floors, but his technical skill is what defines the food, which is showcased up front in a series of amuses inspired by the flavors and textures of snacks: crunchy, salty, sticky, chewy.
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