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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers look for new hires who possess strong communication skills, both written and verbal. These skills are often lacking. Some employers attribute this to younger generations having less experience with face-to-face communication.
| "A lot of our engineers have to talk to other engineers, so they need to be able to communicate. This also made me think about my brother who is a civil engineer. He was telling me last weekend about some people he brought in, and he said, 'You've got to get some engineers that can write—some of these guys can't write a sentence.' So, that is another thing that I've heard." | Northwest |
| "You need to be able to talk to the customer. We do embedded and custom controls, and you need to talk to people. A lot of times you talk even with sales people. So, they have to be able to communicate, and then write it down." | Northwest |