Determining IT Student Profile Using Data Mining and Social Network Analysis

Authors

  • Liana Stanca
  • Ramona - Lacurezeanu Babes-Bolyai University,, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
  • Adriana Tiron-Tudor
  • Vasile Paul Bresfelean
  • Ionut Pandelica

Keywords:

data mining, social network analysis, personas, IT graduates’ skills, job profile, personas, jobs' profile, social network analysis, IT graduates' skills

Abstract

To become higher competitive a university needs to develop a viable students’ absorption strategy on the labor market. A key to the successful development of such a strategy rests to synchronize jobs descriptions with profiles and behavior of IT students. In order to generate this synchronization, it is essential to identify a way to improve university curricula, learning and teaching process based on the students’ profile and on the labor market needs. In this manner, universities could offer IT companies information about their IT students’ profile and behavior. Our paper proposes a data mining and social network analysis to examine IT students’ skills and behavior in order to generate their actual profile. The results contribute to the development of knowledge concerning the IT graduates’ profile and based on this, a solution that might match the university curricula with the labor market requirements. Finally, the results attempt to provide IT companies with information with the aim of better understanding the IT students’ profile and to create a realistic description of the job in the recruitment software on the digital market.

Author Biographies

Liana Stanca

Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Cluj-Napoca, Teodor Mihali 58-60, 400591,Romania

Ramona - Lacurezeanu, Babes-Bolyai University,, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Dept. Business Information Systems

Adriana Tiron-Tudor

Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Cluj-Napoca, Teodor Mihali 58-60, 400591,Romania

Vasile Paul Bresfelean

Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Cluj-Napoca, Teodor Mihali 58-60, 400591,Romania

Ionut Pandelica

1. Academy of Economical Sciences in Bucharest
Bucharest, Piata Romana 6, 010374, Romania

2. Agora University of Oradea
410526 Oradea, P-ta Tineretului 8, Romania,

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