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., & Guéhéneuc, Y. Information and Software Technology, 129:106429, January, 2021. 9 citations (Crossref) [2022-08-23]Paper doi abstract bibtex Context: There is a growing demand for information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open positions. Objective: This paper investigates which hard and soft skills are more required in IT companies by analyzing the description of 20,000 job opportunities. Method: We applied open card sorting to perform a highlevel analysis on which types of hard skills are more requested. Further, we manually analyzed the most mentioned soft skills. Results: Programming languages are the most demanded hard skills. Communication, collaboration, and problem-solving are the most demanded soft skills. 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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title = {What skills do {IT} companies look for in new developers? {A} study with {Stack} {Overflow} jobs},
volume = {129},
issn = {09505849},
shorttitle = {What skills do {IT} companies look for in new developers?},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0950584920301877},
doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106429},
abstract = {Context: There is a growing demand for information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open positions. Objective: This paper investigates which hard and soft skills are more required in IT companies by analyzing the description of 20,000 job opportunities. Method: We applied open card sorting to perform a highlevel analysis on which types of hard skills are more requested. Further, we manually analyzed the most mentioned soft skills. Results: Programming languages are the most demanded hard skills. Communication, collaboration, and problem-solving are the most demanded soft skills. 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.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2022-03-10},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
author = {Montandon, João Eduardo and Politowski, Cristiano and Silva, Luciana Lourdes and Valente, Marco Tulio and Petrillo, Fabio and Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël},
month = jan,
year = {2021},
note = {9 citations (Crossref) [2022-08-23]},
pages = {106429},
}
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