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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers speak of the ideal candidate as having a positive attitude, possessing professional values, expressing an interest in how things work and being self-motivated to learn new skills.
| "I think one thing that is different at our company is the way we're organized. We don't have—we call it a free market—so we don't have supervisors. So, you don't get assigned on a Monday morning, 'Here are your four tasks today,' or on Tuesday, 'Here are your other four tasks.' We need to have people who can operate in that environment; people that will show self-initiative and motivation. The issue that we would see is if people can't operate in that kind of free market system, if people aren't comfortable developing that network internally. But we try to screen for that." | Metro |