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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: Experience & Credentials
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers seek candidates who have had previous job and/or volunteer experience. Ideally, this experience would be in the health care field, but other experiences are valuable, too.
| "The amount of experience that's real world experience, so to speak, coming from the training in the schools is not quite meeting the criteria of the minimum that they'd need to be able to come in and start out running or have the understanding of what they need to do." | Metro |
| "What I see as lacking is the real-life experience at the bedside." | Metro |
| "Again, they're lacking experience. Sometimes it would be helpful if—you know, we do so much in the hospital environment with process improvement—and I don't know if there's a way to incorporate some of the PI tools or anything like that? And there are new technologies in the laboratory. Molecular is exploding, and they're not coming with a very strong molecular background. But it's such a changing science, I don't have the answer for how we would incorporate that..." | Metro |
| "To me, that's a real hard thing. These new grads, they're not coming in with the level of experience. They need to hit the ground running in my lab because we don't slow down. We're going from the time they clock in until the time they walk out the door, so it's tough. It's a tough environment." | Metro |
| "Employer 1: Okay, but even with that experience, they're not—the new applicant, the new graduate—they're really not ready to go? Employer 2: No, the lab is too complex." |
Metro |