Beyond the code of ethics: the responsibility of professional societies
Proceedings of the ethics and social impact component on Shaping policy in the information age
The profession of IT: who are we?
Communications of the ACM
The professional development challenge for IT professionals
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Legal Status of Software Engineering
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Information Dynamics and Discourse in a Distributed Professional Community
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 7 - Volume 7
Recruitment is never enough: retention of women and minorities in the IT workplace
Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment
Who is "the IT workforce"?: challenges facing policy makers, educators, management, and research
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
Workforce preparation and ABET assessment
Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research on Computer personnel research
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The purpose of this preliminary study is to investigate an under-explored topic, specifically, the role of professional associations in preparing, recruiting, and retaining computing professionals. Drawing on relevant literature, we identified a comprehensive list of services that should be provided by professional associations in order to prepare, recruit, and retain professionals. Then we assessed several computing professional associations to determine whether they offer those identified services. Our findings show that ACM has better coverage of services, followed by IEEE-CS, AITP, and AIS. This study indicates that computing professional associations have considerable influences on higher educational institutes by establishing curriculum guidelines to prepare professionals, on organizations by organizing career fairs and placement websites to recruit professionals, and on retention by providing professional development opportunities. We propose that more research is needed to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of computing professional associations and to identify unique ways they can influence preparation, recruitment, and retention of computing professionals.