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Article: Strengthening your skill set: rapid changes in today's economy and workplace require a focus on updated skills.(MAKING CONNECTIONS)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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FOR SIX YEARS SHULONDA RANKINS-MORRIS WAS A district branch service manager at Grainger Industrial Supply. "We had a lot of Hispanic customers requesting our service, and we didn't have anyone in the branch that knew Spanish," says Morris, now a region vice president-retail sales and logistics at Kraft Foods Inc. She saw this as an opportunity to strengthen her skill set, especially since she had her eye on taking an assignment at Grainger's South America location. Morris immediately enrolled in classes to study the language.
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