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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
While some employers send incumbent employees off-site for training, many have professional development units that develop in-house training. Vendor training is frequently used for new software/technologies that businesses purchase.
| "What we've been doing in the last few years is we've been working directly with the vendor because there's no training other than specifically sending them to the vendor. In our industry, we're the folks who make sure that the connections work so you can have remote workers doing your programming and fixing things remotely. We're the ones that take care of the network that makes that happen. 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. So, we're sending them directly to the vendor or—in case the State the Minnesota—predominately to a company called Calix, which is now the vendor for most of the telecommunications products in the state of Minnesota for those connections." | Central |
| "Vendors are able to stay a little bit ahead of the curve, and I think that's very difficult for academia right now. Maybe there was a time when academia was ahead of industry, but I don't think that's the case anymore, at least not in this sector." | Central |