# What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02473 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.02473/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 4 Nov 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Improving Stack Overflow question title generation with copying enhanced CodeBERT model and bi-modal information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.13073/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Context: There is a growing demand for information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open positions. Objective: This paper investigates which hard and soft skills are more required in IT companies by analyzing the description of 20,000 job opportunities. Method: We applied open card sorting to perform a high-level analysis on which types of hard skills are more requested. Further, we manually analyzed the most mentioned soft skills. Results: Programming languages are the most demanded hard skills. Communication, collaboration, and problem-solving are the most demanded soft skills. Conclusion: We recommend developers to organize their resum'e according to the positions they are applying. We also highlight the importance of soft skills, as they appear in many job opportunities.