Recruiting diverse, high-skilled IT employees through existing virtual social networks

Authors:
Julio Angel Ortiz;Andrea Tapia;Edgar Maldonado Rangel
Affiliations:
The Pennsylvania State University;The Pennsylvania State University;The Pennsylvania State University
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Year:
2006

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Abstract

There is an Information Technology (IT) skills gap in the United States. To address this unmet need, organizations are fervently looking for ways to create a sustainable IT professional assembly line of educated and highly skilled workers with strong social networks and exceptional team-based organizational skills. While the IT workforce field has been heavily researched, the majority of this investigation gives little to no discussion to the role under-represented groups of virtual social networks will play in addressing this concern in our knowledge economy. This paper explores how existing social networks of minority Greek-letter organizations possess high IT soft skills to meet this need. It concludes by highlighting key implications for the IT workforce today and in the years to come.