Are we in the right profession?: Comparing information systems, computer science and other disciplines' professional's perceptions of the job market

SIGMIS-CPR'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 Computers and People Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 11-16

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Maier, Christian ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

IS enrollments; IT personnel; job alternatives; job perceptions; turnover intention

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GRADUATE SCHOOLS; IS ENROLLMENTS; JOB ALTERNATIVES; JOB MARKET; LABOR MARKETS; TURNOVER INTENTION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863527820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2214091.2214098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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