Women, information technology and ‘waves of optimism’: Australian evidence on ‘mixed‐skill’ jobs

Roan, Amanda; Whitehouse, Gillian

doi:10.1111/j.1468-005x.2007.00181.x

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“…Even though soft skills are the psychological phenomena which cover the personality types, social interaction abilities, communication, and personal habits, people believe that soft skills complement hard skills. Soft skills refer to the cluster of personality traits and attitudes that drives one's behavior (Roan and Whitehouse 2007). Soft skills indirectly define the personality traits, ability to have social interaction, and eagerness which individuals acquire as they grow and mature.…”

Section: B Literature Survey Of Soft Skillsmentioning

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Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Ahmed

Capretz

Bouktif

et al. 2012

Journal of Systems and Information Technology

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Different parts of the world have different cultures and culture has an impact on the way people perceive, plan and execute any assignment. The success and failure stories of software projects reveal that human factors are one of the significantly important issues. Psychological theories assert that people have different personality traits and these personality traits are pigeonholed by soft skills or emotional intelligence.Most of the studies carried out on human factor in software engineering concentrate primarily on personality traits. However, soft skills which largely determine personality traits have been given comparatively little attention by researchers from software engineering community. The main objective of this work is to find out whether employers' soft skills requirements, as advertised in job postings, within different roles of software development are similar across different cultures. We used a dataset of 500 job descriptions from four different regions of the world in this study. We found that in the cases of designer, programmer and tester substantial similarity exits for the requirements of soft skills whereas only in case of system analyst dissimilarity is present across different cultures.

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Section: B Literature Survey Of Soft Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Ahmed

Capretz

Bouktif

et al. 2012

Journal of Systems and Information Technology

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“…These non-technical skills refer to the collection of personality traits and attitudes that drives one"s behavior [1]. The IS 2002 (IS 2002 Model Curriculum) [2] as well as the IS 2010 (IS 2010 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems) [3] defined some categories of non-technical capabilities that are required.…”

Section: A Soft Skillsmentioning

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Soft Skills – An Important Key for Employability in the "Shift to a Service Driven Economy" Era

Lavy¹

2013

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Abstract-The shift from production to a service driven economy in recent years has increased the importance of soft skills among graduates in general and IT (Information Technology) in particular. While a decade ago the market requirements focused mainly on the candidate's technical expertise, currently there is an increased attention to the soft skills as well. This study that maps the real market soft-skills' requirements, was initiated due to employers' complains about the lack of soft skills among IT graduates. As part of the study 2000 IT classified advertisements that relate to IT professionals were analyzed. The study revealed that human interaction skills were high on the demand list (41.2% of the soft skills ads), common (or general skills) were in second place (22.8% of the ads), task interaction were third (20.2% of the ads) and organization skills were the least requested (15.8%).Index Terms-IT soft skills, human interaction skills for IT.

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“…The skill set required for success in the IT workplace is shifting in light of the evolution and emerging popularity of "mixed skill" jobs [41]. Common titles for these jobs include software project managers, web/multimedia programmers, graphic designers, usability engineers, and systems consultants [30].…”

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“…Common titles for these jobs include software project managers, web/multimedia programmers, graphic designers, usability engineers, and systems consultants [30]. The direct impact of this mixed skills job market is a rising demand for candidates who possess both "soft skills" and "technical skills" [14,41]. The indirect impact is a challenge for computing programs to produce candidates with these critical qualifications.…”

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Are technical and soft skills required?

Lewis

Smith

Harrington

2008

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computing Education Research

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This research investigates the effects of technical (i.e. technical ability) and soft (i.e. emotional intelligence) skills on CS program retention. Structural equation modeling revealed that affinity (satisfaction with the major) was the most important factor in determining intention to leave the CS major. Unexpectedly, technical skills were the least important (compared to soft skills). Gender differences were also examined.Results indicate significantly different effects on affinity and intent to stay across gender. For example, when examining female CS students, both technical and soft skills were significantly related to affinity which in turn was significantly related to intent to stay; with soft skills providing the stronger relationship. For males, affinity for the CS major was only significantly related to emotional intelligence. Technical skills were not significantly related to affinity. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Women, information technology and ‘waves of optimism’: Australian evidence on ‘mixed‐skill’ jobs

Cited by 31 publications

References 17 publications

Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Soft Skills – An Important Key for Employability in the "Shift to a Service Driven Economy" Era

Are technical and soft skills required?

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