Most jobs requiring CS skills do not require a CS degree #CSEdWeek
December 5, 2017 at 7:00 am 2 comments
I am excited about this new report from Burning Glass and Oracle because it provides evidence for the claim that the vast majority of people who need CS skills will not be CS majors. I will be joining folks from Burning Glass and Alison Derbenwick Miller and others from Oracle Academy in a Twitter chat about the report Wednesday, December 6 at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET. Hope you can join us.
Only 18% of these jobs specifically request a computer science degree
While many employers are looking for workers with strong computer science skills, they are not necessarily looking only at job seekers with computer science degrees. Only 18% of jobs in the categories listed above specifically request a computer science degree. (Most postings do request a bachelor’s degree generally or a degree in another major.) Programming and data analysis jobs are the only categories that have significant demand for computer science degrees. For all other categories, fewer than 5% of postings request a computer science degree.[1] This means that students in a broad range of education programs can enhance their job market value by including computer science in their education pathways.
Source: Rebooting Jobs | Computer Science Skills | Burning Glass Technologies
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mgozaydin | December 6, 2017 at 9:10 am
What you say is very tight. I say everybody must understand and somehow code Cs . It is now to know how to write and read . If you cannot write a word you cannot have a job . Very simple .
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