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Uncovering the Necessary Hard- and Soft-Skills to Get IT Personnel Jobs: A Text Mining Approach

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Florian J. Meier,

Sven LaumerAuthors Info & Claims

SIGMIS-CPR '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Computers and People Research Conference

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3550213

Published: 17 January 2023 Publication History

Abstract

With digitalization disrupting organizations every day, the necessary skills to get a job in modern societies are changing rapidly. Individuals and educational institutions seek knowledge of what industry demands in terms of hard- and soft-skills to plan their next step in having these skills in their personal or educational portfolio. To find out which hard- and soft-skills play a key role in finding IT personnel jobs, we employ a text mining approach on job advertisement data and generate a framework for IT personnel jobs. After doing some standard preprocessing steps, we use topic modeling to generate our results and map those with the IT personnel framework. Our results show that three competencies' fields are relevant for IT personnel jobs, and hard-and soft-skills play both a major role in those. Depending on which competencies field one wants to explore, we highlighted the most necessary skills that may play a decisive role when applying for a job in that position. Our findings contribute to the stream of literature equipping both educational institutions and individuals with recommendations of the skills to include and focus on regarding IT personnel.

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https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-023-01036-1

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Uncovering the Necessary Hard- and Soft-Skills to Get IT Personnel Jobs: A Text Mining Approach
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Computing occupations

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Pieczurczyk SDrews P(2023)Digitale Kompetenzen im Wandel: Eine Neubewertung digitaler Kompetenzen in der IT-Funktion eines AutomobilunternehmensDigital Competencies in Transition: A Reassessment of Digital Competencies in the IT Function of an Automotive CompanyHMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik10.1365/s40702-023-01036-161:1(78-99)Online publication date: 21-Dec-2023
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