What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs. Montandon, J. E., Politowski, C., Silva, L. L., Valente, M. T., Petrillo, F., & Gu�h�neuc, Y. Information and Software Technology (IST), 129:106429, Elsevier, January, 2020. 6 pages. Short article.
Paper abstract bibtex \textbfContext: There is a growing demand for information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open positions. \textbfObjective: This paper investigates which hard and soft skills are more required in IT companies by analyzing the description of 20,000 job opportunities. \textbfMethod: We applied open card sorting to perform a high-level analysis on which types of hard skills are more requested. Further, we manually analyzed the most mentioned soft skills. \textbfResults: Programming languages are the most demanded hard skills. Communication, collaboration, and problem-solving are the most demanded soft skills. \textbfConclusion: We recommend developers to organize their resumé according to the positions they are applying. We also highlight the importance of soft skills, as they appear in many job opportunities.
@ARTICLE{Montandon20-IST-DevelopersSkills,
AUTHOR = {Jo�o Eduardo Montandon and Cristiano Politowski and
Luciana Lourdes Silva and Marco Tulio Valente and F�bio Petrillo and
Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},
JOURNAL = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},
TITLE = {What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers?
A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs},
YEAR = {2020},
MONTH = {January},
NOTE = {6 pages. Short article.},
OPTNUMBER = {},
PAGES = {106429},
VOLUME = {129},
EDITOR = {G�nther Ruhe},
KEYWORDS = {Topic: <b>Quality models</b>, Venue: <b>IST</b>},
PUBLISHER = {Elsevier},
URL = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/IST20c.doc.pdf},
ABSTRACT = {\textbf{Context:} There is a growing demand for
information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open
positions. \textbf{Objective:} This paper investigates which hard and
soft skills are more required in IT companies by analyzing the
description of 20,000 job opportunities. \textbf{Method:} We applied
open card sorting to perform a high-level analysis on which types of
hard skills are more requested. Further, we manually analyzed the
most mentioned soft skills. \textbf{Results:} Programming languages
are the most demanded hard skills. Communication, collaboration, and
problem-solving are the most demanded soft skills.
\textbf{Conclusion:} We recommend developers to organize their
resum{\'e} according to the positions they are applying. We also
highlight the importance of soft skills, as they appear in many job
opportunities.}
}
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