Risty Moyo-Acerado, Lorena W. Rabago, and Bartolome T. Tanguilig, Technological Institute of the Philippines, Philippines

This paper introduces the competency models for Operations Manager, User Interface Designer, and Application Developers. It will serve as a guide for Information Systems students to identify which among the three of the offered tracks would be most suited for them to pursue according to their knowledge, skills, values and interests. The Holland’s RIASEC model and the Values Search model of Bronwyn and Holt were utilized to determine the most dominant interest and most dominant values of the industry computing experts. Survey assessment forms were sent to IT Operations Manager, User Interface Designer, and Application Developer. Most dominant values and interests of industry computing experts were determined as well as the knowledge and skills which are mostly required by the industry in their particular area.Based on the result of the survey, it shows that application developer and user interface designer have a closely related values. Thus a second round of a survey would be needed to come up with the most exclusive dominant values for the particular information systems specialization track.

e-learning, career assessment, profile matching, competency model