We're a small town where everyone knows everyone else, word gets around. The government was preoccupied with paper before. The paper is down now.
Social skills are more important.
Regarding complex vs. simple skills, the dynamic and non-market service sectors tended to identify more complex and challenging skills. Regarding information technology skills, responses differed significantly by sector. The following chart gives the number of skills for which frequency of selection was significantly different in the sectors. There was some conjecture that this might reflect other work that has suggested that Canadians as a group are not risk takers. On the other hand, several entrepreneurs who own small businesses observed that their businesses can only afford one risk taker-themselves.