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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Experience & Credentials
The quotes below are about this issue:
For entry-level technicians, employers look for a minimum of an associate degree. Some say that associate-level technicians tend to have more practical experience, while bachelor-level technicians tend to have stronger soft skills. Some respondents feel that candidates coming from disciplines other than IT can be successful technicians as well.
| "People here are hiring people with four years of college and no other experience. I'm hiring students." | Metro |
| "I'm going to challenge the notion that we need, at the education level, science and math to be effective in IT. I look at our IT leadership team and most of them were liberal arts majors. Drama is another one, and one was a finance guy. Medieval philosophy as an undergrad. They started out as developers, like myself. So, I do think different companies in different levels of the IT staff, so to speak, [lost in translation] hardcore technologists. If you look at the numbers of people that are in IT, most of them aren't doing things that need that kind of background, in my opinion." | Metro |
| "I'd say there's a whole new group of people coming up that are going for the two-year degrees. It used to be a bachelor of science for computer degrees. It's changing. They're learning a lot in the two-year colleges. The technology changes so fast; it changes really fast." | Metro |