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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers would like to see more technologists who have business knowledge, particularly budgeting skills when consulting with clients. It is also important that technologists understand the organizational ramifications of their technical decisions when working with various businesses.
| "We look for three things when we're hiring someone, especially entry-level hires. Raw technical talent is one. Communication skills are second. That's a huge bonus, if you get someone that you know can write well and speak well and is comfortable doing it, because they will automatically be more effective. The third, which we don't always get, is business acumen. People who can sit in a meeting with a customer, and can understand where the customer's coming from. We're lucky if we get that. But communication is critical." | Northeast |
| "I was just going to expand on the other employer's comment on business acumen. When I look at my top performing analysts, it's because they understand the technical concepts, the software development, and the lifecycle concepts. And they can sit at the table with senior leadership and talk to them on their level. They can explain the implications of their decisions, the options they have, and the results of those options at the business level." | Northeast |
| "Five years from now, the emphasis isn't going to be on making this work, it's going to be on helping customers run their business more effectively with this thing that pretty much always works." | Northeast |
| "Question: In terms of the curriculum, would you go to the point of advising the folks who train your potential applicants about adding courses on government regulations or how to understand regulations? Employer: I think it goes back to business acumen. If you understand what makes a business tick, then you understand revenue, and cost, and all of that. That's pretty powerful, and this is just an addition of that, another force that affects businesses." |
Northeast |
| "People come in from a lot of different angles, but again, the common trade is technical aptitude and business acumen." | Northeast |