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dc.contributor.convenorNorah Power and Kate M.Kaiser
dc.contributor.authorPotter, Leigh Ellen C
dc.contributor.authorvon Hellens, Liisa A
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, Sue H
dc.contributor.editorNorah Power, Kate M. Kaiser, Jack Downey, Damien Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:14:40Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:14:40Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-10-27T08:29:48Z
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-60558-427-0
dc.identifier.refurihttp://www.sigmis.org/CPR_2010_Home_Page.html
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/31971
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we discuss the motivating factors behind Information Technology (IT) professionals and what drives their choice of IT as a career. In order to explore this a series of interviews with thirteen IT professionals have been undertaken including a set of preliminary interviews, interviews with IT professionals from a consultancy organisation and a tertiary institution working on a common project, interviews with IT professionals in a large government organisation, and questionnaires distributed to an online community. The individuals participating in this study generally described exposure to technology at an early age and a subsequent interest in technology. These participants went on in later years to show an intrinsic motivation for pursuing technology. For this group of people the opportunity to interact with technology while young assisted them in developing an interest in working with technology and in retaining that interest.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttps://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1542130
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename47th Annual Computer Personnel Research Conference
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleSIGMIS CPR'09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ACM SIGMIS COMPUTER PERSONNEL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2009-05-28
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2009-05-30
dc.relation.ispartoflocationUniv Limerick, Limerick, IRELAND
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom33
dc.relation.ispartofpageto39
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode280102
dc.titleChildhood Interest in IT and the Choice of IT as a Career: The Experiences of a Group of IT Professionals
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, School of Information and Communication Technology
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPotter, Leigh Ellen C.
gro.griffith.authorNielsen, Sue
gro.griffith.authorvon Hellens, Liisa A.


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