Suwimon Vongsingthong

Department of Information Technology and Management, Krirk University, Thailand

(suwimonv@yahoo.com)

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Problems Identifications• Revolutionary changes in technology have created

an increasingly information-centric global economy. • Information and knowledge has become a key

factor to judge the prosperity and competitiveness of the organizations.

• The production of information technology will continue to rely on a large and growing force of manpower.

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Current Resolution• Educators have been implementing curriculum

models in various ways. • Educators pay more attention to the theories while

business gives more weight to experience and technical expertise………………chasm

• Tightness in the ICT labor market is more likely to occur within a few years as the demand for technology-based products and services grows.

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Market Requirement 2020

Krirk Research 53

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Career Most Wanted

Krirk Research 53

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Thailand’s ICT Situation

Krirk Research 53

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Government Resolution

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Objectives

1. To study the level of critical knowledge and skills of ICT professionals in needs of employers.

2. To test Structural Equation Model (SEM) of elements influenced success in ICT careers with primary design based on empirical data.

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Factors related to qualification of ICT staff

1. foundation of information technology

2. operating system

3. network system

4. software development

5. project management

6. database management

7. database application

8. business

9. system support

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Research Methodology

Documentary R

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Quantitativ

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Qualitativ

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Independent Variables

Conceptual Framework

foundation of information technology

operating system

network system

software development

project management

database management

database application

business

system support

Qualification of ICT ManpowerQualification of ICT Manpower aspired by Employeraspired by Employer

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Research Approach1. Factors affecting abilities of ICT staff were

collected through quantitative research methodology.

2. In-depth semi-structured interview was systematically brought in to prove the consistency of the model.

3. Multivariate analysis technique, Structural Equation Model (SEM) to prove the level of necessity of elements influenced success in ICT careers.

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Population/Sample Size

8,501 ICT Superintendents in enterprises in Bangkok and metropolitan

Yamane • confidence level 95 %

with 5% error• Purposive Sampling 385

Summary of key functions of ICT professionals 2011, NSO

Population

Sample Size

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Data Collection

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Research ResultsThe validity of the model (Qualification of ICT

manpower appropriated to the requirement of employers)

Table 1 Pearson’s correlation between factors affected abilities of ICT professionals

Table 2 The confirmatory factor analysis of IT Qualification Model17

Research ResultsThe evaluation of overall fitness of the model

and the numeric optimization of a likelihood function

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Results

The result of goodness-of-fit of overall model and its individual parameters reveals that the Path model of IT Qualification is consistent with the empirical data.Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) gives well results of testing.

[2=22.95, df =15 (2/df= 1.53), p < .01, robust CFI =1.00, RMSEA = .038]

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Research ResultsPath Analysis on fitness of optimization model

Figure 1 Path Diagram of Best Fitted Data

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Results

Regression weights shows that all 9 latent variables have a significant P-value which is smaller than 0.059 factors are essential components to the success of ICT professionals with standardized factor loading () between 0.51-0.80 and the reliability of the observed variables (R2) between 26% to 64%.

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Results

The observed variables with highest coefficient of determination is knowledge and skills in business and database management which have identical standardized factor loading of 0.80.The observed variables with lowest coefficient of determination is knowledge and skills in database application has standardized factor loading of 0.51.

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In-depth Interview

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In-depth Interview

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Conclusion

The nine elements of knowledge and skills which cover both hard skills and soft skills are consistent with the standard curricula suggested in Europe (Career Space Consortium, 2001), U.S.A (Brainbench, 2007), Australia (Ruth, 2012) as well as Thailand (Ministry of Education, 2009). It also indicated that those skills should be concurrently implanted.

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Recommendation

Practice-based mechanism, for example, self-studies on related hardware and software tools and field training in enterprises should be adverted to stimulate know-how in business process. Soft skills such as project management and system support are necessary. A tight collaboration between educators is and enterprises suggested to enhance clear perspective on its application.

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Recommendation

The intellectual resources for lifelong learning generated through educational reforms policy jointly developed by business and educator shall be advantages to all parties.

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End of Presentation

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