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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Needs & Challenges in Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Many employers are having difficulty finding quality entry-level applicants in general and/or applicants for specific occupations, including engineers, technicians, and software and database development specialists.
| "Well, we find it's very—I mean, we had a hard time hiring qualified applicants in St. Cloud to the degree. I think one of the things we look for is someone that can really think critically. Not just a heads-down programmer, but somebody that can also think about something from a business perspective. And we have a hard time finding qualified people that are willing to stay in St. Cloud, because that's where we need them. So, we typically have a really hard time. So, it seems not in-sync that central Minnesota has this high output of talent supposedly...but I don't know that they all stay here in St. Cloud." | Central |
| "We get a lot of applicants that come through, but finding a quality applicant is hard." | Central |
| "For an internship with four intern slots, we interviewed and screened maybe 80 candidates down to four. And it was kind of a struggle for us to find that. So, finding quality candidates has been a struggle for us." | Central |
| "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 |
| "In the last few months I had to hire three new employees. I stopped putting ads out for telecom because there just aren't any people coming out of the ad system for telecom. I couldn't find anyone, and I viewed well over 30 applicants for three positions. So, something that was supposed to take three months—to try to find the three people—took me nine months." | Central |