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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Most employers provide incumbents with training on both technical and soft skills. Technical training topics include new technology, new product development and efficiency, and new software.
| "We do both. We have an FMEA training this week. A year ago, we brought in some help in learning how to do new product development process in order to standardize our process. We had all of our engineering staff being trained in the stage gate management of our processes." | Central |
| "That kind of thing seems like it needs to be self-driven—to really stay on top of the technology. We do what we can do in those areas, but the technology is changing so fast in each of these areas. The newest microcontroller chip—and what it does compared to the other microcontroller chips—yeah, they need to stay tuned with the technology that's out there. When we're asking them to develop a product, we just say, 'This product needs to do this in general. Can you kind of fringe it?' It's their responsibility to put the right components in to make it do that, and the right components are always changing. New ones are always coming. So, staying on top of that is an expectation for them." | Central |
| "And technology is changing all the time, so they're constantly learning new things and skills and needing to adjust how they do things. It's constant." | Central |