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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Technical incumbent training topics include new technology, such as cloud, virtualization, and application development.
| "Things change. I think that the technical skills—you can pick whatever language you want and train them on how it is, and there are concepts there that are really important to understand. So, maybe it doesn't matter what language they learn at that time, but then there's the ongoing training that needs to be very relevant, very specific, and very usable. Education has got to be a lifelong endeavor for everybody that's in a technical field. You can never stop or you will just work yourself right out of a job. So, there's got to be something that's available and is more specific and relevant as things change." | Metro |
| "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 to get those additional courses." | Metro |
| "Employer: It would be precise, detailed, technical skills they we need. Like with the newest Cisco equipment and the newest technology and the newest whatever it might be. That's what we would be looking for and encouraging our employees around. Question: So, something that is highly technical and the latest and greatness? Employer: Yeah, because we would want to be moving in that direction." |
Metro |
| "The other piece that I also provide training on—and this is because I think it's worth putting a reinvestment in some of our people—is the technical side. Because, when we are taking off with cloud computing, maybe I need somebody to have knowledge in that area that they don't yet have. So, we are going to have to train them. Or the business intelligence side of it. We've hired some people as consultants to help with the knowledge transfer. So, we will put specific skill sets in place, but it's so much a political side as well. And that is just as tough for them to figure out." | Metro |
| "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 |
| "For us, it's app development, pure and simple. I mean, all these platforms for iPhone and Android. And it's hard to take them away from the work they're doing to educate them on new languages and new things that come about, so that's trouble with us." | Northeast |
| "The fact is that technology is changing so rapidly. What our company looked like 20 years ago—as far as our technicians who joined our organization back then—most of them wouldn't have even had a two-year degree when they joined us. Some of that group, they have more construction-type skills. They may not even know how to operate a computer or they don't feel very comfortable using the computer. Well, today, most of our technicians—we're looking for them to have a network-type background. Part of it, as our technology needs are moving, is taking that work group and helping them try to change with the organization so that their positions aren't phased out. If those employees don't keep up their skill set, then eventually their positions go away." | Southwest |