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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Occupation-Specific Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
IT skills and diagnostic skills are important.
| "Q: But it sounds like it's a combination of the IT stuff and hands-on mechanic stuff, and automation, and use of computers. A: Exactly, because you might be handy with your hands, but if [IT] is not something you're capable of, you're never going to be successful." |
Northwest |
| "And to have the diagnostic equipment to be able to understand and learn those functions...all my technicians in the shop, they've got their own laptops at their own station. They hook wirelessly up to the new cars. They perform module updates, whether it be the electronic control module, transmission control module. It's not done with a wire anymore. It's done wirelessly from their laptop through the diagnostic equipment to the vehicle. And looking into the future and talking to the instructors for the manufacturers, that's only going to grow. And I can understand from a teaching standpoint, that's a pile of money obviously." | Northwest |
| "It may contain some IT stuff that's really high-end, and then it relates to a brake repair, or something. So this [person] that's going to work on cars, he's got to be skilled at many levels." | Northwest |
| "So, yeah, it's not the old way it used to be. People understand that, also. It's not a Saturday afternoon mechanic type thing or shade tree mechanic. It's not that anymore. If there's something wrong with the car, you come walking out with a scan tool or a computer or something like that and figure it out. It's not the greasy mechanic anymore." | Northwest |
| "We'd rather have 18 months of more intense training in computerized electronics and those types of things. And then allow us and other truck shops the ability to hire those folks and train them specific to our product." | Central |
| "Well, in the parts everything is computerized. And some IT training is very important. We always see the younger generation coming in much more advanced than other generations." | Central |
| "When we get a new person, you've got to nurse them along until they find out the cars are kind of the same, except for the diagnosing." | Metro |
| "You have to hire two guys now, to do one guy's job. You've got to have one guy diagnose it and then, tell the other guy what to do because he either doesn't have the ability to do that, taking it down, putting it back together, or he doesn't want to do, one of the two. Q: So a diagnostician and a mechanic, if you could have that in the same person, that would be very valuable to you? Versus just having one or the other aptitude? A: Oh, yeah." |
Metro |
