TY - GEN
T1 - A framework for understanding minority students' cyber security career interests
AU - Chai, Sangmi
AU - Bagchi-Sen, Sharmistha
AU - Goel, Rajni
AU - Rao, H. Raghav
AU - Upadhyaya, Shambhu
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Recently, a demand toward IT workforce in a cyber security arena is showing an increasing trend. However, under representation of minority workforce in the IT industry is one of reasons for the scarcity of skilled labors in the information security industry. This paper presents various factors that contribute to students' motivation and interest in a cyber security career by exploring career choice theories. This paper investigates, based on the social cognitive theory, the factors that affect students' intrinsic motivation to pursue an information security careers. It further suggests a theoretical framework that explains relationships among students' cyber security career self-efficacy, barriers and cyber security career interests. Finally, this study proposes a research framework that explains minority students' cyber security career choices.
AB - Recently, a demand toward IT workforce in a cyber security arena is showing an increasing trend. However, under representation of minority workforce in the IT industry is one of reasons for the scarcity of skilled labors in the information security industry. This paper presents various factors that contribute to students' motivation and interest in a cyber security career by exploring career choice theories. This paper investigates, based on the social cognitive theory, the factors that affect students' intrinsic motivation to pursue an information security careers. It further suggests a theoretical framework that explains relationships among students' cyber security career self-efficacy, barriers and cyber security career interests. Finally, this study proposes a research framework that explains minority students' cyber security career choices.
KW - Career choice
KW - Career interest
KW - Cyber security
KW - Minority
KW - Perceived career barriers
KW - Self-efficacy
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870346545
SN - 9781604236262
T3 - Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006
SP - 3415
EP - 3420
BT - Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006
T2 - 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2006
Y2 - 4 August 2006 through 6 August 2006
ER -