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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:
Soft skills incumbent training center around project management, business skills, and communication.
| "What we need from people who have come in—especially from larger companies—are basic project management skills. And the ability to know what their role is within a project and to play that role without the project going off-track. Or running a project on their own—being able to put together a project plan, identify the risks, and just kind of looking at it beyond the technical problem at hand." | Metro |
| "I was trying to sort through what I am doing with my staff in terms of where do I have to help them grow and develop? The business analysis skills are areas where we don't have enough people. Project management has put a huge focus on that. One of the pieces that was really tough to teach was the political side of the project management. There's an art and there's a science. They can get the science part of it; they can breakdown the structure if they want. But they can't quite figure out the company politics." | Metro |
| "I would say a lot on the soft skills. I would say a lot of what's happening is that there are shifts in IT generally. So, at least in our world or our sphere, it's moving away from heavy technical skills and moving towards the soft skills. And a lot more business skills to be able to do the analytical work, project management, and communication." | Metro |
| "The other skill, aside from project manager, is basic business analysis skills. Again, it's the ability to look at and understand the business problem before you serve in technical solutions. It's not just thinking, 'I've got to hammer something just to hammer.' Rather, it's, 'Okay, here's the problem I'm trying to solve, and I need to make sure that I have an understanding and an agreement of what the business is trying to solve, and then I'll figure this out.'" | Metro |
| "We have a couple of things in place that help drive that. We have an internal program that we call High-Tech [lost in translation], which teaches soft skills and tries to instill some sort of understanding of what the stuff is supposed to do. And not just make it work, but why businesses have things like this. The business acumen piece, we actually require people that are in senior positions of leadership to sit on non-profits boards or to go through the leadership [lost in translation]—things like that to help unplug for a second from the industry and hone those business skills." | Northeast |
| "One of our problems is communication. We have a lot of people that love to sit at their computer and build apps and not tell anybody what they're doing. They don't share or look at repercussions or anything else." | Northeast |