Title
Synthesizing IT job skills identified in academic studies, practitioner publications and job ads
Abstract
This research examines IT job skills across three genres of texts: scholarly articles, practitioner literature, and online job ads. The job skills are organized in three broad categories: technical, humanistic and business skills. Findings suggest that the online advertisements list a strong mix of skills in these three categories, while practitioner literature tends to focus heavily on technical skills. The most recent practitioner literature, however, notes that CIOs are increasingly demanding business acumen as well as technical skills. Project management, financial analysis, and communication skills are the most frequently cited business skills. The scholarly literature tends to lag behind in terms of specific technical skills, but reports the richest set of IT job skills across the three categories.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1542130.1542154
CPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
recent practitioner literature,specific technical skill,it job skill,scholarly literature,business acumen,business skill,academic study,practitioner publication,online job ad,technical skill,practitioner literature,job skill,synthesizing it job skill,online advertising,content analysis,it professional,financial analysis
Job analysis,Content analysis,Life skills,Skills management,Public relations,Transferable skills analysis,Psychology,Financial analysis,Job attitude,Project management
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.91
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haiyan Huang119910.46
Lynette Kvasny243337.78
K. D. Joshi373959.01
Eileen M. Trauth41536138.28
Jan Mahar5321.71