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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Occupation-Specific Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
A few employers are looking for knowledge of specific software and virtualization skills.
| "One of my peeves, I guess, is that there are a lot of waterfall traditional project management methodologies being taught and, frankly, I think that's just ridiculous. It should be swathed around. So, you teach Agile and you say, 'Hey, this is how they used to do it.' It's such a high-penetration rate today. There are a lot of people doing kind of in-between stuff, but I think kind of evolving that." | Central |
| "Mobile is another thing. It's really big and it's a high-demand market. And if you want to have better fulfillment rates with students getting jobs, I think having programs that have some sort of mobile aspect is important. I have seen that, and that's great within some technologies—even four-year universities have been doing iPhone courses." | Central |
| "The big thing that I see—especially in Minnesota state colleges and especially in [MnSCU college]—is that there's generally no focus in their virtualization tract like Hyper-V. Well, there's nobody in this town learning Hyper-V. I mean, it just doesn't exist here. You've got to be teaching virtualization as concept. VMware in the business side of the world for virtualization is like Microsoft on the software side. That's how big they are to the virtualization world. And there's also Zen and Citrix. I mean, you've got to be teaching knowledge of them and that person's got to have somewhat of a familiarity of what the differences are between them. Because, like, if we come for W3i we run VMR, that's what most of our systems run off of. And if we have candidates right out of college and they're saying they have Hyper-V experience, but they don't even know how to install VMR—which is not real hard by the way—then that's a little bit of a red flag, right? We can see that they have Hyper-V experience and they get the concepts and stuff like that, but it's one of those things where it should just be a more generalized track. In my opinion, anyway." | Central |