Nowadays software is taking a very important role in almost all aspects of our daily lives which\ngave great importance to the study field of Software Engineering. However, most of the current\nSoftware Engineering graduates in Jordan lack the required knowledge and skills to join software\nindustry because of many reasons. This research investigates these reasons by firstly analyzing\nmore than 1000 software job listings in Jordanian and Gulf area e-recruitment services in order to\ndiscover the skills and knowledge areas that are mostly required by software industry in Jordan\nand the Gulf area, and secondly comparing these knowledge areas and skills with those provided\nby the Software Engineering curricula at the Jordanian Universities. The awareness of the Software\nEngineering students and academic staff of the concluded mostly required knowledge areas\nand skills is measured using two questionnaires. Recommendations to decrease the gap between\nSoftware Engineering academia and industry had also been taken from a sample of software companies�\nmanager using a third questionnaire. The results of this research revealed that many important\nskills such as Web applications development are very poorly covered by Software engineering\ncurricula and that many Software engineering students and academic staffs are not aware\nabout many of the mostly needed skills to join industry.
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