A comparative study of IT/IS job skills and job definitions

SIGMIS-CPR 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference: The Global Information Technology Workforce

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 168-170

  Nelson, H James ^a   Ahmad, Altaf ^a   Martin, Nancy L ^a   Litecky, Charles R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IT IS job definitions; Latent semantic analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA SETS; IT/IS JOB DEFINITIONS; JOB DESCRIPTIONS; JOB MARKETS; JOB OUTSOURCINGS; JOB SKILLS; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; ONLINE SITES; PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS; SKILL SETS;

INFORMATION THEORY; JOB ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 57349145436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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