The purposes of this study was to investigate the essential component of software development competency for new graduates before entering the Thai software industry sectors and to develop training courses software development competency. The sample of this study consisted of 402 software’s entrepreneurs and 30 new graduates in software development. The instruments used in research were questionnaire in-depth interview and the assessment of the satisfaction of trainees. The statistics used for data analysis were arithmetic mean standard deviation and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The findings of the data analysis indicate that there are seven competency factors: the software development on mobile devices individual factor for software career software testing and presentation use of software development tool knowledge of business process for software development concept of software development and English for communication and ASEAN knowledge. A software development on mobile devices was the most important competencies for software industry and therefore the training for new graduates was set up based on Application Development on Android. In addition the participants were satisfied with the training at very good level.

The objectives of this research are to study manpower demand characteristics of software personnel and the development trend of software industry. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied by using questionnaire and in-depth interview for data collection. The research sample is 85 software industries. Descriptive and inference statistics are used; frequency percentage arithmetic mean and standard deviation The results showed that many of software personnel in software industry who operate in the position of Programmer/Software Developer/Tester. In the year 2011 and 2012 the software industry require software personnel in the position of Software Engineer and Graphic Designer the most. In addition the required qualification of such software personnel in the year 2011-2015 is the person with bachelor degree and experienced. Features of the software personnel who the software industry recognizes the importance of the top three include knowledge moral and ethics and relations and responsibilities between people. The development trend of software personnel in Thailand are the following: The development of teaching and learning curriculum in cooperation with enterprises and educational institutes teaching and learning process arrangement should be emphasis on practicing part establishing obvious intern plans and cooperative education plans. Also the software personnel should be trained concerning business administration management and presentation. Government sector should encourage the software personnel development in Thailand with regard to education and fund.