Activity traces and signals in software developer recruitment and hiring

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 145-155

  Marlow, Jennifer ^a   Dabbish, Laura ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hiring; Impression formation; Impression management; Open source software development; Transparency

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; FORM IMPRESSIONS; HIRING; IMPRESSION FORMATION; IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; TECHNICAL SKILLS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE DESIGN; TRANSPARENCY;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84874885595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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