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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers look for individuals who are passionate about the field and are self-motivated to learn new technologies.
| "In a lot of our recruiting talks to candidates, we ask, 'What do you do in your spare time?' And, 'When you go home and play with your home network, what does that look like?' Because more education is happening there, just in the engineer's tinkering, than it is in a traditional academic setting. And we find that more relevant to the roles that we are filling on our engineering team." | Metro |
| "There are students who just go through the motions. You know, they go to class every day, they do everything by the book, and they just get the degree. There's a big difference between that person and the person at home who is going to play around with Java on their own, or Visual Studio Express Edition, or something like that. That's the employee that I'm looking for. The person that's going to play around with stuff on their own, who's passionate about it, who's going to learn more than they do just in class." | Metro |
| "We want people who are interested in knowing more about multiple things. Then they would be willing to jump in and learn more, whether it's on the technical side, or maybe migrate to the project management side and the analysis side." | Metro |
| "Education has got to be a lifelong endeavor for everybody that's in a technical field. You can never stop or you will just work yourself right out of a job." | Metro |