Transferability of skills over the IT career path

Authors:
Choong Kwon Lee
Affiliations:
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The primary goal of this study is to help IT professionals prepare themselves for their future careers by identifying transferable skills across the three different IT jobs: programmer/analysts, systems analysts, and IT managers. By collecting and analyzing data from Fortune 500 corporate websites, this research attempts to provide IT professionals with a list of skills that they need to retain and new skills to develop for their future careers.