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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care

They are talking about this topic: General Skills

 

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Employers look for candidates who are able to hold themselves accountable, are adaptable and have a strong work ethic. Some employers feel that professionalism is lacking in new hires, and some suggest this is due to generational differences.

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"Some of it, too, is accountability. Some of the people we have, if they make a mistake, they just kind of blow it off. And that's hard for me to understand because we all should take responsibility.

Question: So, they blow it off, meaning they don't report it or they don't try to fix it? Or maybe you get the impression that they won't self-correct?

Employer: That's very possible."		 Northeast
"Employer 1: Adaptability is very key. I don't know if this is a generational thing or not but just the understanding that when you come into the workforce, any organization, your job is probably going to change and evolve. It's not going to be the same two or three years from now as it is today, so you have to have some kind of willingness to roll with that. It's not all going to be based on what you want as the job-seeker. It's normally based on what the employer needs, and sometimes you don't see that sense very much—that it's not about me, but it's about what the employer needs. And it's about what I can offer the employer, not about what they can offer me. So, we're looking for applicants who are adaptable.

Employer 2: And who have a good work ethic.

Employer 1: Work ethic. Yeah."		 Northeast
"I think the younger generation doesn't seem to have the work ethic as much as maybe the older generations do. That you come to work, and if you're supposed to be there at six in the morning, that means you're there 15 minutes early, ready to go. They don't get that." Northeast
"These were all people who committed time out of their school week to shadow and do a lot of different things. They were very interested in pursuing health careers. And one thing I noticed with this group of students is that they all had part-time jobs. Some of them started really early on, working for family members. I mean, that little entrepreneurial thing. And I know, at least there were quite a few of my friends or my children's friends who had never had a part-time job. They were never expected to work at McDonalds or anywhere and earn money even in the summer. Now, it wasn't like that at our house, but it's good just to have had that responsibility—where you had to be someplace at a certain time and then you got the satisfaction of that paycheck. But that experience seems to be lacking more. Another thing I noticed with these students that I was interviewing is that they're very motivated. They had a career path. They were very good students, and they'd all had some kind of a part-time job, whether it was at the grocery store or something else." Northeast