Choong Kwon Lee
ABSTRACT
The primary goal of this study is to help IT professionals prepare themselves for their future careers by identifying transferable skills across the three different IT jobs: programmer/analysts, systems analysts, and IT managers. By collecting and analyzing data from Fortune 500 corporate websites, this research attempts to provide IT professionals with a list of skills that they need to retain and new skills to develop for their future careers.
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Index Terms
- Transferability of skills over the IT career path
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