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.}
} 
Downloads: 0
{"_id":"aYJLZATYCHKjiyomy","bibbaseid":"montandon-politowski-silva-valente-petrillo-guhneuc-whatskillsdoitcompanieslookforinnewdevelopersastudywithstackoverflowjobs-2020","authorIDs":["AfJhKcg96muyPdu7S"],"author_short":["Montandon, J. E.","Politowski, C.","Silva, L. L.","Valente, M. T.","Petrillo, F.","Gu�h�neuc, Y."],"bibdata":{"bibtype":"article","type":"article","author":[{"firstnames":["Jo�o","Eduardo"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Montandon"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["Cristiano"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Politowski"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["Luciana","Lourdes"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Silva"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["Marco","Tulio"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Valente"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["F�bio"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Petrillo"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["Yann-Ga�l"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Gu�h�neuc"],"suffixes":[]}],"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":[{"firstnames":["G�nther"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Ruhe"],"suffixes":[]}],"keywords":"Topic: <b>Quality models</b>, Venue: <b>IST</b>","publisher":"Elsevier","url":"http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/IST20c.doc.pdf","abstract":"\\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.","bibtex":"@ARTICLE{Montandon20-IST-DevelopersSkills,\r\n   AUTHOR       = {Jo�o Eduardo Montandon and Cristiano Politowski and \r\n      Luciana Lourdes Silva and Marco Tulio Valente and F�bio Petrillo and \r\n      Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},\r\n   JOURNAL      = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},\r\n   TITLE        = {What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? \r\n      A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs},\r\n   YEAR         = {2020},\r\n   MONTH        = {January},\r\n   NOTE         = {6 pages. Short article.},\r\n   OPTNUMBER    = {},\r\n   PAGES        = {106429},\r\n   VOLUME       = {129},\r\n   EDITOR       = {G�nther Ruhe},\r\n   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Quality models</b>, Venue: <b>IST</b>},\r\n   PUBLISHER    = {Elsevier},\r\n   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/IST20c.doc.pdf},\r\n   ABSTRACT     = {\\textbf{Context:} There is a growing demand for \r\n      information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open \r\n      positions. \\textbf{Objective:} This paper investigates which hard and \r\n      soft skills are more required in IT companies by analyzing the \r\n      description of 20,000 job opportunities. \\textbf{Method:} We applied \r\n      open card sorting to perform a high-level analysis on which types of \r\n      hard skills are more requested. Further, we manually analyzed the \r\n      most mentioned soft skills. \\textbf{Results:} Programming languages \r\n      are the most demanded hard skills. Communication, collaboration, and \r\n      problem-solving are the most demanded soft skills. \r\n      \\textbf{Conclusion:} We recommend developers to organize their \r\n      resum{\\'e} according to the positions they are applying. We also \r\n      highlight the importance of soft skills, as they appear in many job \r\n      opportunities.}\r\n}\r\n\r\n","author_short":["Montandon, J. E.","Politowski, C.","Silva, L. L.","Valente, M. T.","Petrillo, F.","Gu�h�neuc, Y."],"editor_short":["Ruhe, G."],"key":"Montandon20-IST-DevelopersSkills","id":"Montandon20-IST-DevelopersSkills","bibbaseid":"montandon-politowski-silva-valente-petrillo-guhneuc-whatskillsdoitcompanieslookforinnewdevelopersastudywithstackoverflowjobs-2020","role":"author","urls":{"Paper":"http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/IST20c.doc.pdf"},"keyword":["Topic: <b>Quality models</b>","Venue: <b>IST</b>"],"metadata":{"authorlinks":{"gu�h�neuc, y":"https://bibbase.org/show?bib=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yann-gael.gueheneuc.net%2FWork%2FPublications%2FBiblio%2Fcomplete-bibliography.bib&msg=embed"}},"downloads":0},"bibtype":"article","biburl":"http://www.yann-gael.gueheneuc.net/Work/Publications/Biblio/complete-bibliography.bib","creationDate":"2020-09-16T17:55:32.065Z","downloads":0,"keywords":["topic: <b>quality models</b>","venue: <b>ist</b>"],"search_terms":["skills","companies","look","new","developers","study","stack","overflow","jobs","montandon","politowski","silva","valente","petrillo","gu�h�neuc"],"title":"What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs","year":2020,"dataSources":["8vn5MSGYWB4fAx9Z4","KfXmPhaoCuAwjS2aX","SCHo5ZZkXuxNNaMME","cy4HQkWZAA34xFEsF"]}