Professional and interpersonal skills for ICT specialists

The main objective of this paper is to define and evaluate the professional abilities of an engineer who works as an IT professional in Spain, primarily telecommunications engineers and computer scientists. Their occupational profiles will provide us with a useful tool for defining and conceptualizi...

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Autores: Llorens García, Ariadna|||0000-0002-7776-0310, Llinàs Audet, Francisco Javier|||0000-0002-0914-1702, Sabaté i Garriga, Ferran|||0000-0002-0718-5891
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/7527
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/7527
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.132
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Core competencies
Soft skills
Mintzberg classification
Spanish IT sector
Information and communication technologies (ICT) engineers
Competències professionals
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Habilitats personals i competències
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Sumario:The main objective of this paper is to define and evaluate the professional abilities of an engineer who works as an IT professional in Spain, primarily telecommunications engineers and computer scientists. Their occupational profiles will provide us with a useful tool for defining and conceptualizing curriculum plans for new qualifications, which the EU Higher Education Area project will require in 2010. European universities, institutes of higher education, and learning centers are currently drawing up such proposals. This article presents a first attempt at defining the professional characteristics-in terms of competence and aptitude-that an IT professional should possess. It focuses more on interpersonal skills and abilities than to knowledge and technical expertise.