What the aspiring GOP candidates will need to mount a modern - day
tech race are campaign
veterans with a wide range of seasoned digital
skill sets — for fighting TV admen over budgets, writing fundraising email copy that doesn't go straight to the trash bin and in using data the right way to find potential donors and voters.
But as I talked to a number of
veterans looking for jobs in the
tech industry, many were frustrated that employers often didn't know how to interpret the relevance of their
skills or appreciate their capacity for such all - purpose
skills as rapid learning, leadership and pure smarts.