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Second thoughts about a career in IT?

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Adrian Gardiner,

Vladan Jovanovic,

Han ReichgeltAuthors Info & Claims

CITC5 '04: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Information technology education

Pages 194 - 201

https://doi.org/10.1145/1029533.1029581

Published: 28 October 2004 Publication History

Abstract

At a time of numerous reports of American IT jobs being outsourced overseas, and the immediate employment prospects for many IT graduates uncertain, it remains unclear whether these developments are causing American IT students to reconsider their earlier decision to undertake a career in IT. Addressing this issue, this exploratory study reports the general level of IT career commitment of senior IT students enrolled at a medium-sized State University in the southern United States. In addition, links between the level of a student's IT career commitment and a number of factors are investigated, including knowledge about the IT job market, perceived job uncertainty, IT self-efficacy, attitudes towards IT study, and the type of IT program a student was undertaking.

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Choudhury VLopes AArthur D(2010)Issues and Opinions---IT Careers CampInformation Systems Research10.1287/isre.1090.025921:1(1-14)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1287/isre.1090.0259
Potter Lvon Hellens LNielsen SPower NKaiser KDowney JJoseph D(2009)Childhood interest in IT and the choice of IT as a careerProceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research10.1145/1542130.1542138(33-40)Online publication date: 28-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1542130.1542138
Harkins R(2006)A practitioners guide to organizing and offering a small conference for CS/IT faculty, students and industry professionalsJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/1181811.118181822:1(54-64)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1181811.1181818

Index Terms

Second thoughts about a career in IT?
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Employment issues
    2. Computing profession
      1. Computing occupations

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DOI:10.1145/1029533

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Cited By

Choudhury VLopes AArthur D(2010)Issues and Opinions---IT Careers CampInformation Systems Research10.1287/isre.1090.025921:1(1-14)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1287/isre.1090.0259
Potter Lvon Hellens LNielsen SPower NKaiser KDowney JJoseph D(2009)Childhood interest in IT and the choice of IT as a careerProceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research10.1145/1542130.1542138(33-40)Online publication date: 28-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1542130.1542138
Harkins R(2006)A practitioners guide to organizing and offering a small conference for CS/IT faculty, students and industry professionalsJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/1181811.118181822:1(54-64)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1181811.1181818

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