Exploring the Fintech jobs-skills fit of financial and information technology professionals: Evidence from linkedIn

Utilizing LinkedIn resumes of Singapore employees in 2016, this paper not only investigates what kind of work experiences and education training best fit FinTech job roles, but also examines the differences of FinTech job roles between FinTech startups and FinTech incumbent firms. The preliminary results suggest that professionals with financial job title or work experiences in finance industry are more likely to switch to a FinTech job. Meanwhile, the finance or computing major also has a positive effect on switching to a FinTech job. Further analysis shows that FinTech professionals in FinTech startups and FinTech incumbent firms exhibit significant different human capital characteristics, which indicates that startups put more attention to IT workers's leadership and prior startup experience while FinTech incumbent firms focus more on IT techniques and IT educational background when hiring employees. More interestingly, both of the FinTech startups and incumbent firms prefer hiring professionals with either specialized finance or computing background rather than those with both financial and computing backgrounds. Our findings are expected to have important implications for both researchers and practitioners.