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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Financial Services
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Many employers have in-house training programs and/or bring in external vendors for incumbent worker training. Smaller organizations will send employees to external training facilities.
| "I think in public accounting, it's a little bit easier for us. If they're a CPA, they're required to have continuing professional education. And some of the firms do that by sending their folks to external CPA activities. And some larger firms have an internal corporate learning department that sets that kind of stuff up." | Metro |
| "We use Society CPA or Accounting Train type training, some soft skill training. We use some Benchmark Learning, the Science Museum of Minnesota as well as [others] for some more technical training. And then also project management training, and a couple of our staff members are going back for master's degrees so they're in college." | Metro |
| "It certainly has been a mind-shift in our organization. It's something that we've been concentrating on for at least the last five years—of making it more of a sales-oriented culture versus just a transaction-based culture. And you're right, there are two different mind-sets [about what an employee prefers to focus on], and so it's been a little bit hard. And we've seen a bit of turnover in the last couple of years because people aren't willing to make that next step in terms of becoming more of a sales associate. We always look at that challenge, and we created our own in-house training program and everybody goes through it on a quarterly basis." | Metro |
| "We also have the learning and development department. They have trained staff that we hire—and we just hired another one—and they do all of the in-house training. They also coordinate external vendors, external speakers, and things of that nature. Every office has different training schedules, but there are a lot of web-recorded sessions that people can attend at any time." | Metro |
| "I can speak about our learning and development. It's something that we have found to be important to our employees, so we have built a new learning and development program, which includes soft skills training. We have a partnership with Skill Soft, so we have a lot of internal trainings that employees can take at their own pace, when they want to. But we do a lot of our trainings—technical trainings—internally. And sometimes we use outside vendors, but the majority is in-house." | Metro |