Paper Info
Title
From Employable To Fully Operational: The Need For Training Of Computer Science Graduates
Abstract
For graduates in computer science and informatics to get employment as IT professionals, there is a need for their education to provide the competence sought after by employers. To become fully operational in the organization, the candidates typically also need to further develop their competence there, engaging in activities, and becoming familiar with the practices in the company. For a university offering master's degrees in computer science and informatics, it is important to know the employers' view of the relevance of the study programs and what is possibly considered to be lacking. Also, it is essential to know whether the missing part needed to become fully operational should be provided by the university. In this paper, we investigate these questions by asking employers of master students in IT. As a significant new contribution, we use the framework of modes of identification by Wenger-Trayner and Wenger-Trayner to find out if the graduates are aligned with the discipline, engaged in activities, and able to imagine their future in an IT-position. A combination of in-depth interviews and a survey is used. Analysis of the findings shows that employers overall find the candidates' competence from the university to be adequate. We argue that collaboration between university and industry is essential to this success, pointing to a set of key steps in the process from entering a study program to becoming fully operational in work life.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3991/ijep.v11i3.19995
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING PEDAGOGY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Employability, Training, Higher Education, Computer Science, Graduates
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2192-4880
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gunhild Marie Lundberg100.34
Birgit R. Krogstie26612.96
John Krogstie31234129.93