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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:
The industry looks for employees with critical thinking and problem solving skills. Some report that these could be improved among new hires.
| "If I can see a Wonderlic score on all of our candidates, it would be a lot easier for us to hire them. It's the test they give to NFL players before the draft to figure out their critical thinking skills. It's not, 'What did you learn?' and 'What have you been taught?' It's, 'How can you adapt to situations you haven't seen before?' And, 'How long does it take you to adapt to that situation?' It's more like your ability to learn, and learn quickly, as opposed to what you know." | Northeast |
| "I think the big thing now is that you find those people with a passion for learning, and that have the critical thinking skills. They're going to be able to move as things move, and they're going to be on top of the technology as it's changing." | Northeast |
| "We also need big-picture thinking, problem-solving skills, being analytical, and those types of things. Because from the time they enter college to the year they finish, everything with the regulations will have changed, even in terms of what the technology is." | Northeast |
| "I always envisioned higher education as being—if you have the base of science, technology, engineering, and math, which clearly there's a need for right now—but it's also teaching students how to learn, and how to be lifelong learners. I think we focus too much on the technical. We can't forget about the critical thinking, and the ability to teach yourself how to learn, and how to develop a career that way." | Northeast |
| "It goes back to the recurring theme here. Whether you're focusing on a single item or you're focusing on a change in landscape, you need critical thinking skills and communication skills. Those are really the two big things." | Northeast |