Recruiting diverse, high-skilled IT employees through existing virtual social networks

SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 4-11

  Ortiz, Julio Angel ^a   Tapia, Andrea ^a   Maldonado, Edgar ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greek letter organizations; IT professional skills gap; IT workforce; Under represented groups; Virtual social networks

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; PERSONNEL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GREEK-LETTER ORGANIZATIONS; IT PROFESSIONAL SKILLS GAP; IT WORKFORCE; UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS; VIRTUAL SOCIAL NETWORKS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33745858014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125170.1125177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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