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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation

They are talking about this topic: Experience & Credentials

 

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Employers strongly prefer candidates who have had internships or other relevant work experience.

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"As unexciting as doing certain services on a vehicle is, changing oil or tire rotation, but even though you have a student who's graduated from a two-year program in automotive, hands-on experience in an everyday atmosphere on the job [is very important]. It's a great place to start someone, and you can really see where their skills are. How can they apply themselves to the work? Do they understand it? I mean, at the simplest level of doing the simplest service on a car, it becomes very [obvious] where some of the strengths are." Northwest
"The internship is going to give that student...real-life experience, and it's going to open his or her eyes. This is what it's like on a daily basis. This is what I train for. This is the industry I'm getting into. So it's an eye-opener...'Can I buy into this industry? Do I want to further my career? Is this what I want to do?'" Northwest
"It's a struggle to find somebody every time we have someone leave or retire...even somebody with mechanics training, who has the knowledge to come into the parts industry too. There's a little gap there with experience people in the younger people." Northwest
"They a semester on a specific topic, and then they move on and they cover a different topic the next semester...I mean, without continuing to use those skills, they come into the workforce, they've got some knowledge. The first two to five years is additional training, just hands-on, getting to experience it yourself, to work on it more than once or twice, to really feel comfortable and to be able to let them go off and do the job themselves." Northwest