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.
@article{arxiv.2011.02473,
title = {What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs},
author = {João Eduardo Montandon and Cristiano Politowski and Luciana Lourdes Silva and Marco Tulio Valente and Fabio Petrillo and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02473},
year = {2020}
}