Information Technology (IT) Professionals' Critical Skills Set, Its Outcome, and Implications on IT Education

This paper is an extended abstract of the research-in-progress. Drawn from previous IS literature, this study aims to explore the most widely required knowledge and skills set for current IT professionals. In addition, the study aims to link possible end state that IT professionals will reach when properly equipped with skills set required on their works in the form of IT professionals' quality of work life (QWL). By identifying skills set required for today's IT professionals, the study is expected to help current IT professionals better prepared for their future careers (which will increase the performance of the IT unit as a whole for an organization), help organizations to retain quality IT workforce (whose need-satisfactions, QWL, heightened) for a long haul, and contribute to IT curriculum at higher education.