Employer Quotes

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

The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers are also having difficulty filling mid-level to senior-level leadership positions.

Employer Quote	Region
"Employer: Our company is looking for those software engineers, so we're looking for four-year degree people. I think we're getting enough entry-level talent. The experienced talent is extremely difficult to find. Yeah. Even those with two or three years of experience, we have to go search for them. Question: Ideally, when you say experienced, how many years is that? Employer: Literally, it can be two or three years. It's getting someone at that two year mark. Getting to that level where they can handle things on their own. That's a tougher period to get through."	Northeast
"Question: So, if you wanted to get somebody with, say, three years of experience, you would struggle? Employer: We changed our strategy about 100 percent several years back. We just stopped trying. I mean we still put a job posting out there that says, 'Experience preferred,' but it's once every blue moon that somebody applies with actual experience."	Northeast
"And we'll hire on specs now. If the right person walks in the door, we won't pass them up, even if we don't necessarily know how we're going to use them. If they come in with experience, we'll grab them. Because, otherwise, they'll be gone."	Northeast
"We haven't found a lot of success at the entry-level, whether it's two-year or four-year. And finding the people with two or three years of experience...we're looking for pretty specialized skills, I mean, it's pretty much web development."	Northeast