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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Experience & Credentials
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers emphasize they can provide extensive on-the-job training for new hires to ensure competency in the specific programs used within their sector of the industry. Therefore, a basic skill set is more important than vendor-specific certifications.
| "We don't see a lot of people with much experience coming in, so we tend to hire a lot of folks coming out of [non-MnSCU college] that have the HIS degree. And then we teach them a little more about software configuration, support, and development." | Northeast |
| "You maybe have some more traditional technical roles networking so they need to understand networking concepts and be certified. And we're talking about a specialty software niche, healthcare software. So, if you have some clinical context, you can step into that as long as you have a technical aptitude. So, we're looking for some combination of clinical context and technical aptitude, and we'll train on the rest." | Northeast |
| "We're looking for that raw technical talent because as soon as they walk in our door we'll probably teach them something else." | Northeast |
| "We do a lot of training, and it's working fine. It's just finding the new people coming in with the correct background." | Northeast |