An attempt to estimate the competency gap in the IT sector

Paweł Lula (), Renata Oczkowska (), Sylwia Wiśniewska () and Katarzyna Wójcik ()
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Paweł Lula: Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland,
Renata Oczkowska: Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland,
Sylwia Wiśniewska: Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland,
Katarzyna Wójcik: Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland,

International Entrepreneurship Review, 2019, vol. 5, issue 3, 95-112

Abstract: Objective: The aim of this article is to determine whether there is a gap between the demand for competencies of graduates of the computer science major and their supply.Research Design & Methods: Identification of the key set of competencies required by employers from job applicants and estimation of the competency gap in the IT sector was conducted using the method of exploratory analysis of job offers for po-sitions related to the administration of IT systems.Findings: The results of the preliminary research shown that proposed method can be used for estimation of competency gap however it requires more experiments.Contribution & Value Added: Proposition of new method for competency gap calcula-tion based on exploratory analysis of data available in the Internet.

Keywords: competency; competency gap; labour market; IT sector; Latent Dirichlet Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 C63 J40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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