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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
New hires would benefit from having stronger communication skills. This includes the ability to write, to provide presentations to customers/clients when necessary, and to engage in effective interpersonal communication.
| "One interesting thing about this is that we deal a lot with [another auto repair company]. We're right across the street from [other auto repair company] too, and we really depend on the parts people to give us a little bit of information too. If we're working on a car that we don't quite understand, I talk to the people over at [other auto repair company] and maybe they have something also. We work hand-in-hand with them all the time. And if I did not do that, we would really be hurting because it's kind of hard to try to keep up with everything that's going on with the industry just by ourselves. So we really depend on other people." | Northwest |
| "We look for work ethic, productivity, communication and people skills." | Northwest |
| "But just to get back to the soft skills? Can they deal with their fellow employees?" | Northwest |
| "Q: If you believe students in occupational or technical programs need training beyond their skills, what classes would you recommend? A: English." |
Northwest |
| "If you could...require those students to go through a basic speech class, and have fun with it, and get at least comfortable with it." | Northwest |
| "Our best advisors don't come from the shop. They come from the sales department. Because they know how to meet and greet, they know how to qualify, they know how to shoot new feature benefit, they know how to close, they know how to do presentation." | Northwest |