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Employer Quotes

The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)

They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education

 

The quotes below are about this issue:
Soft skills incumbent training center around project management, business skills, and communication.

Employer Quote Region
"We have a couple of things in place that help drive that. We have an internal program that we call High-Tech [lost in translation], which teaches soft skills and tries to instill some sort of understanding of what the stuff is supposed to do. And not just make it work, but why businesses have things like this. The business acumen piece, we actually require people that are in senior positions of leadership to sit on non-profits boards or to go through the leadership [lost in translation]—things like that to help unplug for a second from the industry and hone those business skills." Northeast
"One of our problems is communication. We have a lot of people that love to sit at their computer and build apps and not tell anybody what they're doing. They don't share or look at repercussions or anything else." Northeast