How to Use employable in a Sentence

employable

adjective

• One study says one of out five American men are no longer employable as a result.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2021
• Maasbach's mother learned her first employable skills at one of the centers.
  — Monica Haider, CNN, 25 Jan. 2020
• What should be the key focus areas for academia to promote employable talent?
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz India, 4 June 2020
• These statistics are not driven by a lack of employable skills.
  — Vicki Salemi, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Minimum wage is the rate a business must pay anyone who is employable.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
• That’s a huge number of people who will need to re-skill in order to remain relevant and employable.
  — David James, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Strong tech skills are commonly seen as the key to becoming employable.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Henry pulled over and rolled down his window to find out why someone who looked so employable had to resort to roadside begging.
  — Kate Santich, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 June 2017
• The days of long tenures at businesses and thinking that the skill sets someone gained with a college degree are enough to keep them employable is changing rapidly.
  — Jaime Taets, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• The film’s director was Mr. Lumet, who hired Mr. Bernstein under his own name, thus effectively restoring him to the ranks of the employable.
  — John Anderson, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
• As a result, the work requirements could pare Medicaid roles of many more people than just those who are employable but not working.
  — Philly.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Studies show that the good-looking are considered more likeable, more intelligent and more employable than the rest of us.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2019
• Instead, colleges feed the narrative that a degree is required to be employable—which is currently true in much of the business world.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
• With that migration is all kinds of people -- rich people, people with degrees and people who are very employable.
  — Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• But with a few more years of experience, the program can still offer all the tools a student needs to be employable through an online offering that will use a rolling schedule.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2019
• Green said a number of the patients who have had dental services have written to the clinics and said oral care played a role in their ability to be employable by correcting their speech or smiles.
  — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2019
• The reserve army of unqualified, but employable, workers may be small.
  — Joel Naroff, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Like his sister Katie, Kevin is following his passion to learn an employable skill with the help of professional mentors.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• And a disturbingly large number of workers will face longer-lasting problems, and will not be so quickly employable when business demand picks up.
  — Harry Holzer, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• That more and better education makes people more employable overall and more likely to land high-wage, high-profile careers is not news.
  — Derek Newton, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• And for many black people, having to think about whether or not they'll be seen as employable after doing something so basic as taking care of their hair, can be an unfortunate rite of passage.
  — Allure, 8 Aug. 2018
• But it’s become evident that Alexander isn’t employable as a campus president and Oregon State can’t move forward with him.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2021
• Of the remaining employable adults in the Las Vegas Valley, a sizable chunk of them work in hospitality support services (construction, health care), and the rest work for Zappos.
  — Nicole Rupersburg, Cosmopolitan, 14 Apr. 2015
• These characteristics make a person not only employable, but a great neighbor, spouse, friend and parent.
  — Kristi Valentini, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2020
• Better video games might make leisure time more attractive, some economists hypothesize, and opioid use might make many less employable.
  — Jeanna Smialek, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018
• In fact, 74% of workers are willing to learn new skills to remain employable, and 76% find companies that offer additional training for staff more appealing.
  — Nancy Xiao, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• The program, barely a year old, aims to provide employable skills to adults who are recovering from addiction, homelessness and other trauma.
  — Sarah Fritsche, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2017
• Training happens in over 27 countries According to Banjo, the course will give participants a 70% chance of becoming more employable.
  — Torera Idowu, CNN, 6 June 2017
• Yet, the current crop of employable professionals has subtly grown into their collective voice, expressing wants and needs to thrive and align with corporate missions.
  — Rod Berger, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• Today’s workers must constantly upskill themselves to stay relevant and employable.
  — Wayne Elsey, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024