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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 emphasize the need for candidates with strong technical skills as well as strong soft skills, particularly effective interpersonal communication skills.
| "They can know just about everything, but if they can't work with other people, it just doesn't work." | 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 at the BCIS [business communication information systems] 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'd be working with a business unit. You're not going to be crunching behind the desk programming. So, our main focus would be business communication information systems. Typically, they're probably more at a senior-level than not. Typically, that's a bachelor's degree plus five to ten years of experience." | Central |