Computing Professionals Changing Needs for the 1990s (1993) / Chapter Skim
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Conclusion and Next Steps
Conclusion and Next Steps
Pages 88-96
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Overall, significant changes are likely in the mix of computing professional skills required by employers, and there is an expectation that computing professionals will need to have increasingly stronger technical skills. It is also widely believed that a technically skilled labor force will remain essential to securing a competitive position in a global economy.
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· Budget tightening that constrains academic research and the decline of large, central industrial laboratories do not bode well for jobs in computer science and engineering research. These developments are part of a larger decline in the conventional research environment, and it is not apparent that we have an attractive model for continuing to meet national needs for research relating to computing and communications.
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BROADENING AND NURTURING THE TALENT STREAM Workshop participants expressed strong concerns about the growing difficulties in attracting talented individuals to computing professions, a difficulty reflected in declining undergraduate enrollments. This situation is exacerbated by the apparent difficulties in attracting and retaining people other than white males.
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One minimum step discussed by several workshop participants was the establishment of a clearinghouse for ideas, programs, and experiences gained in efforts to attract and retain more women and non-Asian minorities in computing education and professional jobs. PROVIDING FOR ONGOING TRAINING The kinds of computing professional skills required by employers change relatively quickly, driving new and growing needs for .
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While institutions especially in industry can provide resources to support retraining, individuals may require counseling and advice on how best to maintain their career currency. ACTING ON IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION The large number and variety of apparently relevant education programs offered (computer science, computer engineering, information systems, information science, and management of information systems, among others)
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How different trends will balance out is unclear at this time. Next Steps: Workshop participants agreed that better definition of degree programs (categories and essential content)
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But workshop participants differed on how to implement these changes: academic participants placed a high premium on degree and skill attainment, and industrial and government participants focused more on the nature of the work to be done and the skills applied. This disparity in perspective is not surprising; it reflects the greater challenge evident in industry and government to adapt job descriptions to evolving technology and applications.
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. Next Steps: Workshop participants agreed that the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Science Foundation should develop more realistic taxonomies for data gathering.
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