Assessing technical candidates on the social web

IEEE Software

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-51

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Serebrenik, Alexander ^b   Singer, Leif ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

collaborative computing; group and organization interfaces; HCI; information interfaces and representation; knowledge management; knowledge retrieval

Indexed keywords

CAREER PATHS; GROUP AND ORGANIZATION INTERFACES; INFORMATION INTERFACES; JOB SEEKERS; KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOFT SKILLS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84872122680     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2012.169     Document Type: Article

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