During these economic times, employers are being pickier about who they hire. They are looking for individuals that posses the right characteristics and are willing to hold out until they find the right person. Here are the top 4 characteristics that most employers looking to fill technical positions are searching for.
The Problem:
Work Related Experience: As most unemployed, college graduates can tell you, having no real world work experience in the technical field will put you in a great disadvantage against those with even minor technical work experience. Most employers put a great deal of emphasis on job experience and will most likely weed out all candidates from the first round of job applications that have no prior technical work experience, even if the position is for an entry level job.
The Solution:
LARC Technical Institute remedies your lack of technical work experience by guaranteeing each and every one of its students at least 6 months worth of resume quality work experience. You learn by hands on work and build your professional computer repair portfolio with each and every case you work on. At the end of your training, you will receive a portfolio that includes every case you have worked on. Armed with this, a potential employer can be reassured that you have the experience that they are after.
The Problem:
Problem Solving Skills: Problem solving skills are one of the most important characteristics that an employer can only hope to find in its employees. Everyday problems crop up during each workday and it takes a person trained on how to systematically approach a problem to effectively resolve it.
The Solution:
LARC Technical Institute trains each of its students on how to systematically approach a problem by asking probing questions to pin point the problem that is causing a computer to fail. Asking the right questions is just one step in developing your problem solving skills. LARC also trains its students to recognize unique characteristics to computer hardware and software failures. Armed with this type of training, you will feel more confident in your problem solving abilities with each and every computer you repair.
The Problem:
People/Client Skills: Almost two-thirds of IT industry personnel are regarded as severely lacking social skills in which they engage clients and convey information in a way that isn’t demeaning. The reason for this stems from the lack of proper coaching on how to approach clients and the situation at hand.
The Solution:
LARC Technical Institute coaches each of its students in the proper way to approach clients. Proper approaches include, but do not limit themselves to be the tone of your voice, demeanor of your stance and even the way you use your hands during a conversation. Learning proper social skills when dealing with clients can not only help you land a job, but most importantly, keep it.
The Problem:
Teamwork Skills: Teamwork has become an important part of the working culture and many businesses now look at teamwork skills when evaluating a person for employment. Most companies realize that teamwork is important because either the product is sufficiently complex that it requires a team with multiple skills to produce, and/or a better product will result when a team approach is taken.
The Solution:
LARC Technical Institute encourages all of its students to collaborate as much as possible in order to get a job done quickly and efficiently. This is why we incorporate a knowledge base system so that students can quickly learn how to resolve a problem that someone else has already handled. Team work and collaboration is the only way that a company will succeed and we do everything we can to help our students become a team that gets the job done.
