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Do Not Just Talk, Show Me in Action: Investigating the Effect of OSSD Activities on Job Change of IT Professional

오픈소스 소프트웨어 개발 플랫폼 활동이 IT 전문직 취업에 미치는 영향

  • Jang, Moonkyoung (Global IT Management Department, Hannam University) ;
  • Lee, Saerom (School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Baek, Hyunmi (School of Media & Communication, Korea University) ;
  • Jung, Yoonhyuk (School of Media & Communication, Korea University)
  • Received : 2020.10.14
  • Accepted : 2020.12.17
  • Published : 2021.02.28
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Abstract

With the advancement of information and communications technology, a means to recruit IT professional has fundamentally changed. Nowadays recruiters search for candidate information from the Web as well as traditional information sources such as résumés or interviews. Particularly, open-source software development (OSSD) platforms have become an opportunity for developers to demonstrate their IT capabilities, making it a way for recruiters to find the right candidates, whom they need. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impact developers' profiles in an OSSD platform on their finding a job. This study examined four antecedents of developer information that can accelerate their job search: job-seeking status, personal-information posting, learning activities and knowledge contribution activities. For the empirical analysis, we developed a Web crawler and gathered a dataset on 4,005 developers from GitHub, which is a well-known OSSD platform. Proportional hazards regression was used for data analysis because shorter job-seeking period implies more successful result of job change. Our results indicate that developers, who explicitly posted their job-seeking status, had shorter job-seeking periods than those who did not. The other antecedents (i.e., personal-information posting, learning, and knowledge contribution activities) also contributed in reducing the job-seeking period. These findings imply values of OSSD platforms for recruiters to find proper candidates and for developers to successfully find a job.

정보통신기술의 발달에 따라 IT 인력 채용 방식에도 많은 변화가 생겼다. 채용 담당자들은 이력서나 면접과 같은 전통적인 정보 이외에도 웹에서 구직자 정보를 검색할 수 있다. 오픈소스 소프트웨어 개발(OSSD) 플랫폼은 개발자들이 자연스럽게 IT 역량을 발휘할 수 있는 곳이자, 채용 담당자들이 적합한 후보를 찾을 수 있는 장소가 되었다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 연구는 취업 시 OSSD 플랫폼의 개발자 정보(구직 활동 여부, 개인정보 게시 정도, 학습 활동 정도, 지식공헌 활동 정도)가 취업에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 실증분석을 위해 웹 크롤러를 개발하여 대표적인 OSSD 플랫폼인 깃허브의 개발자 4,005명을 대상으로 데이터를 수집했다. 구직 기간이 짧다는 것은 취업의 성공적인 결과를 의미하기 때문에 구직 기간에 영향을 미치는 요인을 살펴보기 위해 생존분석법을 실시하였다. 본 연구의 결과에 따르면, 구직 현황을 명시적으로 게시한 개발자가 그렇지 않은 개발자보다 구직 기간이 짧은 것으로 나타났다. 개인정보 게시 정도, 학습 활동 및 지식공헌 활동 정도 또한 구직기간 단축과 긍정적으로 관련이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 향후 채용 담당자의 성공적인 구인뿐만 아니라 개발자의 효과적인 구직을 위한 OSSD 플랫폼의 전략적인 활용 방안에 시사점을 제시해줄 것이다.

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