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Employers say candidates need more training in basic job application and interviewing skills.
"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 |
"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 |