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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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"Often, yeah, we train them. We do a lot of training, but we also will send people to training. From time-to-time, we do utilize services from local institutions or we do custom trainings. And we'll get a little room and do the training for our state board electricity licensure stuff." Northwest
"We do send our folks to trainings." Northwest
"Going back to communication skills, they actually host training sessions for our staff on all of those basic Microsoft Suite programs—Word, Excel, Publisher, etc.—but from a communication standpoint, not only do they help people troubleshoot, but they actually teach our staff." Northwest
"Employer: I know from the early days of working with [another respondent] on router stuff—the two of us sat in a room and didn't even know half about cracking into one. We know a lot about that stuff now, so it's working with the new employees that come in and have a willingness and a desire to learn. It's not required of all of my techs to know all this stuff, but I make the options available and say, 'We're going to go through restoring the database to our finance server on a backup server, so if you want to know how it's done, here's your opportunity.' We have one that asked about more active directory training, so we looked for opportunities for him to do that, and so on. But if we buy a certain product for content filtering or whatever else, we'll bring everybody on to work with that particular vendor.

Question: And you bring that vendor in midst of the training?

Employer: Very wireless stuff, and whatever else. But everything that's in-house—the knowledge base we already have—we'll certainly share with them.

Question: And for most of you, is it a combination of online and in-person training? Or do you lean more...?

Employer: We send them off, too."		 Northwest