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Understanding job competencies’ needs in the job market will be substantial to the success of any educational institutions in preparing their graduates. This paper will discuss and compare the results of two studies, the 2007 and 2012 studies, which examined the IT competencies needs for eight groups of IT workers: Database Administration, Network Administration, Consultant, IT Manager, Software Engineer, System Analyst, Technical Support, and Web Developer. The competencies discussed include hard skills, soft skills, and attitude, personality, and behaviors. The results show that there are changes in the needs of IT competencies from 2007 to 2012.
Keywords—IT job competencies; IT workers;hard skills; soft skills; attitude, personality, and behavior

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