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Managing information systems professionals: implementing a skill assessment process

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 19 - 27

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-959-9

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M. Gordon Hunter

St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G2 W5, Canada

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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