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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:
Employers seek candidates who possess database and data analytics skills as well as knowledge of quality-assurance testing programs and equipment.
| "We're a ten-year-old company and—in our staff—we have a number of programmers and a database administrator and we've never had more than one IT employee in the state of Minnesota. All of our employees are remote, our programmers and our database administrators. And I imagine there are multiple reasons for that. I mean, one is that we have a very unique programming language that we need—that'd be PEARL. We use PEARL programming for our database. And our last position that we were hiring for we had probably two applicants from Minnesota and about 48 from the rest of the country. And it's just been hard to find somebody with the right skills, the right mindset, and the right drive to fill our programming needs. As a result, almost all of our IT staff is remote. And that's the wonders of technology. We can handle that through project management software and innovation. We would definitely love to have more local employees, but when you're located in Little Falls, Minnesota, it's pretty tough sometimes." | Central |
| "They've got to cross-train. It's no longer just writing code. We're really big in the unit testing, testing your code up front, and testing your software package up front. All of my clients are looking for even new grads out of college that have some sort of testing skill set. They also have to have database back ends, and they need to have programming languages. There is so much to learn. It's the combination of skills that is incredibly important. And they've got to want it. If they don't, it's just not going to be worth it to them in five years. They've got to have all those skills together and really want to actually learn those different skills and understand how they all fit together. Because that's how these businesses in our business are all built—on a combination of different technologies." | Central |
| "And database skills. I've interviewed computer science students who don't really understand what a database is. If they can get through a program and have weak skills like that, it's problematic. Data rules the world. Software isn't anything without data. And we see students come through that don't have that perspective." | Central |
| "And PEARL—we use that as testing. Just kind of giving the students additional background in fundamentals around the importance of testing and how that comes into play in the IT design and the project management space." | Central |
| "They've got to cross-train. It's no longer just writing code. We're really big in the unit testing, testing your code up front, and testing your software package up front. All of my clients are looking for even new grads out of college that have some sort of testing skill set." | Central |
| "And the QA side of it, developers tend to be a little bit—I kind of compare them to artists because it's kind of an art form—and they do not like the QA side of the mix and testing their code or having anybody else come in and tell them to test their code. I think part of that comes along when you have someone that...well, testing is their thing. So, they're just going to be a lot better at it all the way through." | Central |
| "And the folks that we're able to hire typically don't know how to run the testing equipment; they don't know how to use the equipment to test and figure out where the issue is at if there is an issue." | Central |