Projected Federal Government Computer Personnel Needs: Results Of An Oklahoma Survey

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a study made to determine the projected performance requirements and skills (training needed) by personnel entering governmental information processing jobs during the next several years as viewed by supervisors in governmental agencies. The specific problems addressed are as follows:

1. The identification of the performance requirements for computer programmers and systems analysts which government employers expect to be needed for employment in the field of information processing during the last have of the 1980’s;

2. The effectiveness of currently employed computer programmers and systems analysis as determined by supervisor assessment;

3. Identification of the areas in which colleges and universities will need to make curricular changes in order to provide the government as well as the business community with properly trained professionals in information processing.