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

They are talking about this topic: Experience & Credentials

 

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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.

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"Employer: We're very specialized. And if we can get those core values, we can train and we can get...

Question: You can teach them the job?

Employer: Right. I mean, they need to have the basic stuff on how technology works and how networking works and math and obviously engineering skills, but we can get them into our specialized niches if they come with a hard-work attitude."		 Northwest
"Well, being a little bit familiar with [MnSCU college's] curriculums and the tech college, too, first and foremost, every single time somebody asks us about training someone, we'll say that those soft skills are—by far—the most important entry-level thing you can have. We can teach them about anything else if we have to." Northwest
"Employer: In doing some of the most rudimentary things that we need somebody to do—like managing a few hundred work stations and work station imaging—I think they get some of the active directory stuff and maybe some of the other OS stuff, but the real industry standard or in-practice imaging and some of the basic functions of the work stations that you see across the spectrum aren't necessarily there. I haven't seen that there. I don't know if it's being taught or not, but I have not seen it. And it would help. It would certainly sway my decision if I would see that somebody's actually done that and has experience.

Question: So, you're looking for that?

Employer: Well, we're teaching it to them once they get here, that's for sure."		 Northwest