Developments in practice XXXII: Successful strategies for IT staffing

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 805-820

  McKeen, James D ^a   Smith, Heather A ^a   Jin, Y ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

IT employment; IT hiring practices; IT recruiting; IT skills; IT staffing

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; MANAGERS;

CAREER DEVELOPMENT; EMERGING TRENDS; FOCUS GROUPS; HIRING PRACTICES; IT RECRUITING; IT SKILLS; IT STAFFING; SUCCESSION PLANNING;

PERSONNEL SELECTION;

EID: 70349325435     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02446     Document Type: Article

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