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. Short article. 6 pages.
What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs [pdf]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.

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