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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
The quotes below are about this issue:
For primary curricular recommendations, employers suggest phone application coursework, additional group work to enhance teamwork skills, and training on security protocols.
| "What [MnSCU college] has done, at least to a point with their manufacturing sections, is they've gone down to semester-type accreditations. The student picks these blocks and they can keep building on these blocks, and working with them on that curriculum. I think that's where you can really introduce a lot of these soft skills—within these separate blocks where you can find the time to determine what it is and put them in there at the lower-level blocks and then build up on them. And I know we were able to get some items that serve our company quite well in these lower blocks. And the soft skills, that would be a good spot to implement them." | Northwest |
| "This is maybe off-the-wall, but your schools—you have all your different departments for different occupations—and for each one of those occupations, you have some level of IT needs. Rather than having an IT program—maybe you still have that—but you could also have IT programs within your core areas. And those areas go out and find out from that business sector what their needs are, and then that IT program is specialized to that core area. Maybe you still have your main IT also, but maybe you can do it that way." | Northwest |