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Employer Quotes

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

They are talking about this topic: General Skills

 

The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers say candidates need more training in basic job application and interviewing skills.

Employer Quote Region
"I think they need to be trained on how to interview, how to answer interview questions. It's very frustrating to me to ask very simple questions and I don't get an answer. So, I think learning how to be a professional and how to present yourself, how to sell yourself, how to market yourself, is very important. I can't tell if a candidate is good or not by the way they interview anymore because most of them won't answer the question. 'Give me three reasons why I should hire you.' It's, 'Oh, I don't know.'" Northeast
"I've been involved with quite a few of our schools here in helping with panels or going and talking to students about what they should say in an interview and those types of things. If it's a mandatory class where they have to sit there and listen, well, half of them listen. But if it's something that they offer through career services, you find that a lot of people aren't interested. You'll have a few people who show up in a suit and they're ready to interview, but most of them just don't participate. So, I don't understand—if they think that there's going to be such a shortage in some of these areas—why they don't try harder? Or if they just aren't interested in learning? But you do find that. I think the schools are trying, but I just don't know that there's a lot of participation." Northeast