Impacting Student Perceptions about Careers in Information Systems

Walstrom, Kent A.; Schambach, Thomas P.

doi:10.28945/1714

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“…Hence, those who are interested in IT as it has become part of their daily life and they are interested how these daily IT tools work and can be used, are also interested in studying a program which provides additional knowledge about their personal interest. Moreover interest is proven as the primary driver for undergraduate students while choosing an IT major [7]. Regarding our focus on employees who decide to study IS after all, we can also confirm an individual's general interest in IT as a major determinant of an individual's motivation to study IS.…”

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confidence: 95%

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Why IS after All? An Explorative Analysis of Professionals' Letters of Study Motivation

Illig

Laumer

Maier

et al. 2014

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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While the selection of majors in InformationSystems (IS) is widely discussed, the context of IS in further education lacks attention. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the motivational factors of individuals who intent to study IS, although they have already graduated in another degree program. Based on an explorative analysis of 84 letters of motivation of applicants applying for a further education degree program in IS, we identify determinants of an individual's motivation to study IS after all. Based on that, we conclude that extrinsic motivations such as expected career enhancement are more important than in other contexts such as undergraduate study paths.

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confidence: 95%

“…In some prior research approaches the motivation to choose information systems (IS) as an undergraduate degree program has been examined [5,6,7]. However, the motivation of experienced professionals, to study an IS degree program, although having graduated in another discipline, has not been investigated so far.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why IS after All? An Explorative Analysis of Professionals' Letters of Study Motivation

Illig

Laumer

Maier

et al. 2014

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Higher education is at the heart of IT skill shortage issue (Leahy & Wilson, 2014;White, Hewitt, & Kruck, 2013). The literature attributes the shortage in the supply of IT graduates (Cohen, 1987;Walstrom & Schambach, 2012) and deficiencies in the higher education system to the IT skills shortage, such as in the UK (Ashworth, 1985) and Canada (Balfour, 1998). When solving the shortage issue by focusing on education, two dimensions need to be addressed -a quality of IT education and quantity, i.e., broadening the participation in the IT workforce.…”

Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A global view of what fixes information technology skills shortage: Panel data analyses of countries’ human and technology resources

Nithithanatchinnapat¹,

Joshi²

2019

JGBI

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This paper aims to provide evidence of what fixes the information technology skills shortage. The focus is on countries' workforce development factors, i.e., human and technology. The research model was tested using secondary data from multiple sources. An ordinary least square with panel corrected standard errors was used to analyze the data. The results indicate that organizations' staff training and gender parity among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates relate negatively to IT talent shortage; this is consistent in both models the authors tested. This study contributes to the IT workforce literature by being the first study that empirically examines the relationships between IT skills shortage and the relevant workforce development factors. Besides, objective measures of IT skills shortage were used, thus overcoming issues that might arise from using the subjective ones, such as counting the number of IT job openings based on predetermined occupation codes. For policymakers wanting to fix the IT skills shortage, the results revealed factors that can help fix the issue in the short term. Future research could examine other factors, such as policy or gender parity in IT careers if appropriate data is available.

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“…Literature notes a lack of awareness about IS careers among students and even advisors, arguing that students do not get enough information about the fi eld early in their education (Walstrom et al 2008 ;Wong 2015 ). It is interesting that one study found that logistics and operations was the only fi eld of which students had less awareness and knowledge than IS (Walstrom et al 2008 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…College students generally select their major by their sophomore year (Turner and Bowen 1999 ) and, in fact, some report that more than half of the students select a major while still in high school (Walstrom et al 2008 ). The underlying challenge remains that students will retain incomplete information about major options and subsequent careers (Galotti 1999 ;Walstrom et al 2008 ). Consequently, there are likely signifi cant gaps between students' expectations about particular careers and the reality of those careers (Roach, McGaughey, and Downey 2011 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Attracting Students to the Field of Logistics, Part 1

Maloni

Scherrer

Campbell

et al. 2016

Transportation Journal

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Practitioner and academic literature indicate a shortage of young professionals entering logistics, yet limited research exists to understand how to attract more students to the field. To address this gap, we compare survey data of logistics practitioner job characteristics to survey data of expected job values of undergraduate students from seven universities. Based on personality-job fit theory, this study allows us to explore how to better promote the major and field to students as well as to propose recommendations to redesign logistics jobs to better meet student expectations. The results reveal that intrinsic job characteristics desired by students such as learning and seeing the results of their work are prominent in logistics jobs. However, other significant student expectations, specifically long-term job stability and pace of promotions, are not prominent in logistics jobs. The results further reveal that promotional messages about the industry are most effectively communicated to students via family, business professionals, and presence on the Internet more so than by professors and college advisors. Ultimately, this research suggests strategies to increase the number of students both majoring in logistics and entering the professional field to address the workforce shortage.

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Impacting Student Perceptions about Careers in Information Systems

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Why IS after All? An Explorative Analysis of Professionals' Letters of Study Motivation

Why IS after All? An Explorative Analysis of Professionals' Letters of Study Motivation

A global view of what fixes information technology skills shortage: Panel data analyses of countries’ human and technology resources

Attracting Students to the Field of Logistics, Part 1

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