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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Financial Services
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers are looking for new hires with leadership and project management skills.
| "As far as technical skills, we're looking at moving more toward paperless workflows, SharePoint, and things like that in our company. And I know that the accounting business—or the auditing business—has done a lot of paperless in the auditing function, but I don't know how your back-offices work. But I see a huge opportunity for a lot of companies to move toward that: paperless workflows and creating efficiencies. But we don't have those skills in order to get there." | Metro |
| "Leaders, we just want leaders." | Metro |
| "They've got to have some kind of leadership skills. It could be coming from college activities or those kinds of things." | Metro |
| "We look a lot at extracurricular activities and what people have done in leadership. Are they a participant or did they lead those organizations?" | Metro |
| "They could be a leader of a customer service group, an administrative group, a marketing group...those kinds of areas." | Metro |
| "We feel candidates are sometimes missing very basic soft skills—things like communication skills and critical thinking skills—and how to turn those skills into more of a leadership role." | Metro |
| "I think that's where our shortage usually is—in those soft skills. If they're doing everything online and not having the ability to take classes that are more interactive and that have a team environment and that create the opportunity to work in small groups, then that's something that we have to teach once they get here. And we don't want to take the time to do that. We expect that that should be a part of their learning environment prior to getting to us. Understanding prioritization, time management, leadership—all of those things that I think are very core in the first couple of years at school—and if they're doing everything online, they're not getting that interaction with their counterparts. They're not learning how to work with others that may not work the same way that they work. So, that's a huge component." |
Metro |
| "For us, they have to have the communication skills. And I would say leadership skills, too." | Metro |