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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Occupation-Specific Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Respondents who hire IT technicians seek candidates who understand interoperability; that is, an understanding of how various technologies work together.
| "I think what's massively important for graduates to understand is that the workplace environment these days is complex. There's a range of technology that dates from the 1970s through 2012. And we're trying to make it all work. We're expecting people to assimilate and understand incredibly complex operating environments and models and be able to make sense out of assignments that are—by and large—very gray." | Metro |
| "They might not know all of it, but they do get kind of what's out there and they always want the latest and greatest. Unfortunately, we do have the old technology in there, too, right? So, we have to understand how it plays together to be able to talk to them in business terms to be able to describe the new stuff and how it interacts with the older stuff." | Metro |