Synthesizing IT job skills identified in academic studies, practitioner publications and job ads

SIGMIS CPR'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-127

  Huang, Haiyan ^a   Kvasny, Lynette ^b   Joshi, K D ^c   Trauth, Eileen ^b   Mahar, Jan ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; IT careers; IT professionals; Job skills

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SKILLS; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL ANALYSIS; IT CAREERS; IT PROFESSIONALS; JOB SKILLS; ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS; SCHOLARLY ARTICLES; TECHNICAL SKILLS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70349304958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542130.1542154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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