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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:
Respondents who hire IT technicians seek candidates who understand interoperability; that is, an understanding of how various technologies work together.
| "In our world, we've gone from a lot of analog—nailed up circuits to communicate—to all internet, all IP, and a lot of videos. So, the pipes need to be larger. But reality used to be when video was out or internet wasn't working great. You know, it wasn't the biggest deal. Now, that is the part that must be up at all times and must be redundant. And the equipment that's used must be understood by our technicians on a minute-by-minute basis. It can't be an attitude of, 'Well, let's call a veteran and figure out what we need to do here.' They need to understand the equipment much more than they used to. So, our world has changed a lot—the internet, IP, and video." | Central |
| "Basically, it's no longer just knowing how to write C Sharp or C++ or Java; it's knowing multiple different technologies and how they all fit together." | Central |
| "Where you're going with that is interoperability. Everybody's got a different device with different programming from a different type of code and we're supposed to make all of that communicate—make all of that connect—with each other. And our technicians have had to learn a lot about different pieces that are out there today." | Central |
| "When I came out of college it was just, 'Do you know C++ or Java?' And that's so far gone. I mean, there are 20 different languages you need to know, and we probably use three or four of them in one project alone. And I think that's really the key. How it all fits together." | Central |