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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers speak of the internship programs they are currently involved in and the importance of new hires having internship experience.
| "Employers here often value farm experience, so maybe [MnSCU college] ought to buy a farm here and have students out there sort of fixing stuff." | Northwest |
| "The one thing that I really like when I'm talking with students that are close to graduation is their senior project. They are doing something for a business. I don't necessarily care if it is for our business because it probably isn't because they are from different colleges. I just like it when colleges and companies are working together, and when companies are letting the students come in. We want to do that as much as we can. We want to get students in our facility; we want to give them a tour. We want instructors to tour. I think a lot of that is being done. We could always do more, but I think we just have to continue to do that. I love hearing about how students went into a company where they had some kind of issue or problem, and the students helped solve it. I love that companies are willing to do that with the colleges." | Northwest |
| "We've been doing a fair number of internships. Going to job fairs and career fairs and selecting some possible engineering candidates. Interviewing them, and then bringing them on as interns. It gives us an idea if they are going to be a good fit. How are they going to interact with people? That has worked well for us." | Northwest |
| "I think we do it all. We have done the internships. We've done outreach-type activities all the way down to like the third grade class." | Northwest |
| "I work at [MnSCU], and we just added a two-year transfer electrical engineering degree. And everything you said really just confirms what the employers in that region are talking about. One of the creative solutions that they've come up with is that they want to kind of lock their hooks into the students at maybe [MnSCU] before they transfer. So, they're offering internships after the second year of college. These are students who are from the area and want to come back to the area. So, they're trying to get them after their second year of college before they transfer and start getting recruited by everybody else. So, they offer an internship and then they support them and keep in touch with them throughout their junior and senior year." | Northwest |
| "This is the culture. Do you fit in here? If interns really like it there, the company is going to keep in touch with them and then get them back there. So, they're really looking at recruiting someone by offering an internship." | Northwest |