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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Financial Services
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers are seeking new hires with high levels of professionalism and work ethic.
| "The fascinating thing I've found is that it seems like people coming out of the technical college system have more professionalism than those coming out of four-year institutions. Because there it's said, 'You've got to be here on time because when people don't show up to work on time they get fired for that.' Or they tell them it's just unprofessional behavior. It doesn't seem like the standards of professionalism—at least at the local institution—are as high in a four-year institution as they are in a two-year institution." | Central |
| "I think a lot of the people that we are interviewing right now, it's about professionalism. Everything is so casual these days that people just don't know how to act professional when we're in an interview or when they start on the job. And we're like, 'What just happened there?' They're so casual about everything." | Central |
| "Employer: You just have to have a level of confidence. Interviewer: Is there a soft skill side to that as well? Employer: Well, I think the soft skill set roots from the fact that the world is changing, you're never going to be comfortable, you're always going to have to grow as a professional, and you're going to need to be comfortable with that fact. You need to be willing to say, 'I don't know' or 'I need to do more work before I answer that question.'" |
Central |
| "I think the people of the business program are certainly more...I think there's a different level there. I think if you do get the people that actually have a finance degree, marketing degree, accounting, there's a different level there than if they're coming out of social sciences or art. I mean, that's basic survival—that these kids have the ability to act professionally. I think it's a real disservice. I mean, if you're a welder, you should still be taught how to be professional. This is just too casual." | Central |
| "Employer 1: We have an awesome generational training and it talks about how we raised them that way. As the parents, we're the ones waking them up in the morning. We're the alarm clocks. We wake them up, 'Okay, here's your breakfast. Time to eat. You need to be in the car in five minutes. I'm driving you to school. I'm picking you up at 3:00 and I'm going to take you to piano lessons. And then at 4:30 I'm going to pick you up and we're going to go to soccer. We're going to sit down and eat at 7:00, and then at 8:00 sit down and get your homework done. And it's going to be lights out at 10:00.' We've done this to them. And yet, when they join the workforce, we expect them to just know what it is they're supposed to do. They're sitting there thinking, 'It's 10:00 and nobody has told me what to do.' Employer 2: They need a daily schedule. And so...I don't know if there's a way in college to somehow knock that out of them?" |
Metro |