skilled personnel
collocation in Englishmeaningsofskilledandpersonnel
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skilled
adjective
uk/skɪld/us/skɪld/
having the abilities needed to do an activity or ...
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personnel
noun[U, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɜː.sənˈel/us/ˌpɝː.sənˈel/
the people who are employed in a company, organization, or one of the ...
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Low levels of retention indicate the difficulties faced by managers dealing with a shortage ofskilledpersonneland high turnover rates.
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These separations proved most worrisome to the defense industry, because they signaled an absolute shortage ofskilledpersonnel.
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These techniques require substantial capital investment andskilledpersonnel; simple, cost-effective alternative detection protocols were therefore developed in this study.
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Although the protocol itself demands the services of highly trained andskilledpersonnel, there are thousands of people with such skills in dozens of countries.
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Again the drawbacks to such projects are the lack of capital, the absence ofskilledpersonneland potential political insecurity in the region.
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The test does not require special storage or sophisticated equipment and can be performed by relatively lowskilledpersonnel.
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These multiple roles justify its need for a core of highlyskilledpersonnelat the higher levels.
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In inland provinces, owing to the lack of financial resources andskilledpersonnel, local governments had difficulty pushing local growth, let alone adjusting the local industrial structure.
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We must keep under review the whole question of the supply of expert andskilledpersonnelto deal with these operations.
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Rather, it is a shortage of sufficiently well-trained andskilledpersonnelto interpret those arrangements.
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British industry faces a major and growing shortage ofskilledpersonnel.
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The amount of foresight, material, andskilledpersonnelrequired to solve the problem involved is surely infinitesimal.
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That has meant that 45 of its keyskilledpersonnelhave had to be made redundant.
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After all, when we are short of products made byskilledpersonnel, we find no difficulty in importing such products from abroad.
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In these circumstances cross-checks are made by highlyskilledpersonnelwho are regularly practised in error detection.
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Obviously, if the material is not there for theskilledpersonnelto use, they are bound to be idle.
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Unless injuries re- ceived attention within a few minutes, it was very often quite useless, and for that attention highlyskilledpersonnelwas necessary.
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