Mining for Computing Jobs

Litecky, Chuck; Aken, Andrew; Ahmad, Altaf; Nelson, H. James

doi:10.1109/ms.2009.150

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“…Content analysis has been applied in different fields [13,14]. Different studies used content analysis for analysing job adverts [8,11] and indicated that content analysis helped to identify skills in demand at present and identify shifts in the patterns of skill demands over time.…”

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“…Their study also revealed that there was a recruitment gap in that even though employers wanted allrounded employees, their adverts demanded more IT technical skills. Other similar studies using content analysis were conducted to identify skills demand of employers in different countries [4,5,8,10,14].…”

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“…Litecky et al [8] also developed job categories using web content mining techniques to identify job categories and the associated skills needs prevalent in the computing profession in the USA. They extracted job adverts of about 20 months from three online sources for jobs requiring a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, and other computing programs.…”

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“…They analyzed the data collected using cluster analysis to come up with clusters of job categories and identified 19 job titles and 24 most frequently mentioned skills in computing job adverts. The job definitions and the associated skills required for these titles are provided in [8]. These job definitions were finally categorized into five larger job classifications to minimize the similarities among the job definitions.…”

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“…Job adverts are widely used as a means of expressing employers' needs regarding skills and competencies of prospective employees. A number of studies [3][4][5][7][8][9][10][11] have used job adverts as a source of data for analysing skills in demand in different disciplines. Therefore, we assume that employers are able to express correctly the types of skills they want from their prospective employees when they advertise in newspapers.…”

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Computing knowledge and Skills Demand: A Content Analysis of Job Adverts in Botswana

Ayalew¹,

Mbero

Nkgau³

et al. 2011

IJACSA

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-This paper presents the results of a content analysis of computing job adverts to assess the types of skills required by employers in Botswana. Through the study of job adverts for computing professionals for one year (i.e., January 2008 to December 2008), we identified the types of skills required by employers for early career positions. The job adverts were collected from 7 major newspapers (published both daily and weekly) that are circulated throughout the country. The findings of the survey have been used for the revision and development of curricula for undergraduate degree programmes at the Department of Computer Science, University of Botswana.The content analysis focused on the identification of the most sought after types of qualifications (i.e., degree types), job titles, skills, and industry certifications. Our analysis reveals that the majority of the adverts did not set a preference to a particular type of computing degree. Furthermore, our findings indicate that those job titles and computing skills which are on high demand are not consistent with previous studies carried out in the developed countries. This requires further investigation to identify reasons for these differences from the perspective of the practices in the IT industry. It also requires further investigation regarding the degree of mismatch between the employers computing skills demands and the knowledge and skills provided by academic programmes in the country.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: A Job Categoriesmentioning

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Section: A Job Categoriesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Computing knowledge and Skills Demand: A Content Analysis of Job Adverts in Botswana

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IT Professionals and the IT Profession

Ang

Joseph

Slaughter

2015

Wiley Encyclopedia of Management

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The context for IT work is changing. New technologies, the trend towards global delivery of IT products and services, the increasing use of social media for work, and the gamification of work have widened job roles in the IT profession. This chapter expands the traditional list of IT job roles (e.g. chief information officer and systems analyst) by identifying emerging IT job roles (e.g. social media specialist and 3D modeler) directly influenced by the changing context of work. Present IT job roles require IT professionals to acquire and develop critical skills in addition to the IT technical and softer skills. These additional skills include cultural competencies and creativity. IT professionals are also expected to polyspecialize in two or more related and mutually reinforcing domains. We conclude this chapter by discussing the implications arising from the evolving IT work context on the jobs, careers and compensation of IT professionals.

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