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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)

They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education

 

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While some employers send incumbent employees off-site for training, many have professional development units that develop in-house training. Vendor training is frequently used for new software/technologies that businesses purchase.

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"One of the things that we do is Red Hat. We do training. So, one of the vendors we support is Red Hat. And they benefited a great deal from Oracle buying Sun and customers just running away from the Sun infrastructure and running to Red Hat. So, we've seen a tremendous growth in training and in Red Hat and the whole virtualized infrastructure." Metro
"Employer: We actually now have a specific learning development organization that resides within the technology area. They provide a lot of different trainings, predominately technical. They have hundreds of various trainings that they can take, in addition to having opportunities to take additional courses outside of the organization. So, they do have specific dollars that we've allocated towards their training and personal career development.

Question: So, you've internalized that function then?

Employer: Most definitely."		 Metro
"Well, certainly, PMI training is a big," Metro
"Vendors are a big source in our industry for training, whether it be VMI or Symantec or ENC or whoever. I really do think there are opportunities there because what we see is that our customers go through training—typically quite large businesses—and there seems to be a gap between...as those companies get smaller and smaller, they can afford less and less of this kind of training. And that's why I would look for closer partnerships between colleges and vendors." Metro