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IT skills in the context of BigCo.

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Steve Sawyer,

K. R. Eschenfelder,

Andrew Diekema,

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SIGCPR '98: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research

Pages 9 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/279179.279181

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