一句话：报告暑期学校如何弥合毕业生与软件行业技能差距，并评估其对新员工和企业的双向收益。
论文指出，尽管“软件工程”提出已五十年，高校也覆盖核心课程，但业界仍普遍反映新聘软件工程师技能不足，且随需求增长这一差距更加突出。为应对该问题，作者报告了一个暑期学校项目的经验与教训：在招聘前筛选应届毕业生，向他们介绍组织与行业所需的核心技能，并评估其掌握这些技能的态度。项目收集了首期学员培训前后的数据，并在一年后进行跟踪问卷。结果显示，此类举措对新员工和企业可互惠互利；暑期学校结束后不久，50%的参与者被该公司录用。论文为产业界开展补充培训、筛选候选人提供了经验证据。
It has been 50 years since the term "software engineering" was coined in 1968 at a NATO conference. The field should be relatively mature by now, with most established universities covering core software engineering topics in their Computer Science programs and others offering specialized degrees. However, still many practitioners lament a lack of skills in new software engineering hires. With the growing demand for software engineers from the industry, this apparent gap becomes more and more pronounced. One corporate strategy to address this gap is for the industry to develop supplementary training programs before the hiring process, which could also help companies screen viable candidates. In this paper, we report on our experiences and lessons learned in conducting a summer school program aimed at screening new graduates, introducing them to core skills relevant to the organization and industry, and assessing their attitudes toward mastering those skills before the hiring process begins. Our experience suggests that such initiatives can be mutually beneficial for new hires and companies alike. We support this insight with pre- and post-training data collected from the participants during the first edition of the summer school and a follow-up questionnaire conducted after a year with the participants, 50% of whom were hired by the company shortly after the summer school.
DOI 原文 ·
@inproceedings{paperbot4567,
title = {Are computer science and engineering graduates ready for the software industry?},
author = {Eray Tuzun and Hakan Erdogmus and Izzet Gokhan Ozbilgin},
booktitle = {ICSE},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1145/3183377.3185754}
}