Skill Gap Quotes

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.

I'm no slouch, but when comparing LeBron's game, I'm usually left out.

I've had a decent career, I've been a decent player but coaching is a whole different ball game. I can take the experience that I've got but there's so much more to it than that and I'd never take it for granted and just say I can jump into a new role and it will be easy and a breeze because I know it won't be like that.

I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

There are several million job vacancies on the country right now, but they don’t line up with skills [of the unemployed.]

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

So much technology, so little talent.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

I spend my days in an office in my house. There are things to be done that I don't have the skill set for. I'm able to learn on the fly, thank God, so I can function. But it's difficult.

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.