MIS professionals: education and performance
Information and Management
MIS skills for the 1990s: a survey of MIS managers' perceptions
Journal of Management Information Systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on IS curricula and pedagogy
Enterprise Systems Integration
Enterprise Systems Integration
IT skills in a tough job market
Communications of the ACM - The digital society
The IT/IS job market: a longitudinal perspective
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Information technology workforce skills: The software and IT services provider perspective
Information Systems Frontiers
Proceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research
Synthesizing IT job skills identified in academic studies, practitioner publications and job ads
Proceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research
IEEE Software
The requisite variety of skills for IT professionals
Communications of the ACM
Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems
Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems
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With turmoil in the U.S. and world economies, it is more necessary than ever to ensure that graduates and employees have the skills necessary to compete in the job market. Some of the previous research on job skills has looked at job advertisements in print and online media to determine skills that employers were seeking; other research interviewed or surveyed employers to determine employers' needs. Results were often conflicting as previously summarized in Litecky, Zwieg and Huang. Now web content data mining techniques allow for much greater sampling and specific analysis of current MIS (simply defined as Management oriented Information Systems types of skills) oriented job ads. In this approach over two million advertisements were filtered to over one half million U.S. job advertisements for MIS degree graduates from various job websites. Management-oriented IS skills were compiled in a thesaurus and then those skills were extracted from the selected job ads. These skills were compared to the job advertisements for subsequent analysis. Results suggest much more concordance between disparate job advertisements and survey-based research. These results reinforce much of the desired uniqueness of MIS curricula as compared to other computing degree curricula. Results herein are limited to U.S. and are also contrasted with the similar content and analysis of job skills in the Australian IS job market. In addition an analysis is performed on the cross disciplinary data on Enterprise System/SAP jobs which were not limited to MIS graduates.