Skills in the MIS job market

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1972-1978

  Litecky, Chuck ^a   Aken, Andrew ^a   Prabhakar, Bipin ^b   Arnett, Kirk ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers; Job Markets; Job Skills

Indexed keywords

CAREERS; JOB MARKET; JOB SKILLS; ONLINE MEDIA; SMALL SAMPLES; WEB CONTENT; WEB CONTENT MINING;

COMMERCE; DATA MINING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84870829948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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