gaining skills

They did the work themselves, gaining skills as they went along.

Students could be viewed as workers gaining skills prior to employment.

Goes on an adventure with challenging missions while gaining skills in physics and engineering.

Hacking Your Education is a guide to gaining skills outside the classroom.

For the next two-and-a-half years she toured with the show, gaining skills no operatic training could have provided.

These programs have aided northern residents in gaining skills needed for enhancing their positions within small business, government and non-governmental organizations.

Budding Beckers and Grafs start gaining skills from around the age of five or six - sometimes even younger.

The centre, which enables these young people to improve their life-chances by gaining skills and knowledge, helps up to 3,000 young people a year.

In addition, many of the entrepreneurs served in elite technical units, gaining skills that they use now in software start-ups.

The object of the game is to evolve a character from prehistory through modern times by gaining skills, intelligence, stamina and knowledge applicable to the age.

"I am interested in Americans gaining skills in computer technology, in biotechnology, not in learning how to produce buggy whips."

Gameplay involves fighting monsters, completing quests, gaining skills and stats, and accumulating items and meat.

In upper levels of the site, it becomes apparent that the people of Çatalhöyük were gaining skills in agriculture and the domestication of animals.

The degree requirement is also very unfair for older workers who managed to work their whole lives without degrees, gaining skills and experience at the time, and got promoted.

To complement his role in the family company, Kassar also spent his afternoons working at Fransabank, gaining skills and experience in banking and finance.

I'm all for people gaining skills, of course, and I readily concede that learning for free can have terrific benefits for both the intern and the employer.

True, American workers gaining skills from education and training will qualify as machinists, mechanics, computer experts, repair people and electricians - the elite of the manufacturing work force.

It is suggested that by becoming ninja they strive to advance to an even higher plane, gaining skills such as haragei, or sensing the surrounding world in a different manner.

Since the school is located in an agricultural community, many of the students at Hamilton are involved with Future Farmers of America, gaining skills in agriculture, agribusiness and leadership.

The vision was to create a place for Jewish kids and teenagers from Israel and around the world where they can connect and strengthen their Jewish identity while gaining skills in the field of hi-tech.

Rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families, the founders of Phi Beta Sigma held a deep conviction that they should return their newly acquired skills to the communities from which they had come.

A Scout works to gain a number of proficiency badges (which involve the Scout gaining skills in a specified area ranging from Information Technology to Navigation, caving and rock climbing to arts and communication) and target badges/cords.

Extended unemployment benefits usually lead to the higher unemployment as well but it can be good for the economy, because unemployed people can invest more in gaining skills and knowledge and pursuing for the better workplaces that it could be possible if benefits had not been in place.

As the recession persists, more of the major architectural and interior planning firms like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, KPF Interior Architects and Fletcher Thompson - firms that helped many of the same corporations expand in the 1980's - now find themselves gaining skills in making them smaller.