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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers look for new hires who possess strong communication skills, both written and verbal. These skills are often lacking. Some employers attribute this to younger generations having less experience with face-to-face communication.
| "It would depend upon the personality of the person when they interview. That's a big part of the employee being hired—they have the ability to communicate well." | Central |
| "I think communication skills and being able to get along with people are important. You don't have to like your co-workers, you don't have to be their friends, but you do have to be able to communicate with them. You can have somebody who is just so smart and can do everything, but they can't talk to anybody. I've seen that happen time and time again. Eventually, they're out because they couldn't work with people." | Central |
| "They can know just about everything, but if they can't work with other people, it just doesn't work. It sucks all the energy out of everyone else." | Central |
| "Well, sometimes there's just the attitude that they know it all and that no one else knows anything. Or that they're just smarter than everybody else. It's like this: When you say something to me, I roll my eyes like, 'Oh, my gosh, you don't know that?' That's all you have to do, and do that consistently to everybody you meet, and you're going to very quickly not have anybody working with you. Even if someone works independently, they still have to communicate with their supervisor, or with other people working with different pieces of that project. And I don't know how you go about helping someone like that." | Central |
| "If we're looking to fill from a computer standpoint—not that we've had to fill one for a while—but we'd be looking more probably at the BCIS because we need the business side with the computer. It doesn't matter what position you're in with IT, you need the interpersonal skills because you'll be working with a business unit. You're not going to be crunching behind the desk programming. Our main focus would be business communication information systems, that's what we're looking to fill. Typically, they're probably more at a senior-level. We're looking for someone that's been in the profession." | Central |