MIS Graduates

[Reckoner]

Just out of curiosity.. what type of position did you take out of college? And are you doing the same thing now?

 

[Afrotech]

Manager of IT for about 4 companies (1 owner)

Yup, I'm still doing the same thing

 

[mkahn5]

graduating MIS may 05 :thumbsup:

 

[wyvrn]

Information Risk Management at Big 4 Accounting Firm (or Big 2 depending on who you talk to).

 

[vital]

looking forward to do some dba w/ only that one intro to database design course available in the department

 

[iamme]

^ because i'd like to know too

 

[PunDogg]

any resources that helped you guys out in particular???

Dogg

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: mkahn5
graduating MIS may 05 :thumbsup:

 

[brtspears2]

MIS minor, systems administrator. But then I learned nothing from the minor to help me in this job. Heck I learned nothing in 4 yrs of college that applied towards my job.

 

[wyvrn]

Originally posted by: PunDogg
any resources that helped you guys out in particular???

Dogg

Networking. Difference in opportunity and pay. No question you have to have combination of good grades/school/degree, experience, and knowing people who can help accelerate your career.

 

[agahnim]

I graduated with a MIS degree with a 3.9 GPA and a 2-year internship at LSI Logic and am now back in school getting a Chemical Engineering degree because I couldn't find a job. When did you guys graduate? It seems like its near impossible to get an IT job these days.

 

[wyvrn]

Originally posted by: agahnim
I graduated with a MIS degree with a 3.9 GPA and a 2-year internship at LSI Logic and am now back in school getting a Chemical Engineering degree because I couldn't find a job. When did you guys graduate? It seems like its near impossible to get an IT job these days.

True. I had a friend's help. Otherwise I would have been in the same situation. I actually interviewed for about 6 jobs, but the compeition was ridiculous and I ended up dying on the finalists' list.

 

[abc]

MIS, one possibility on top of all that has already been said is some kind of systems analyst, or a project mgr, or a business analyst...

or some kind of job where you can be a 'go between' between IT and heads of end users, say back office Ops, who got head hanchos that are too old to be computer savvy and cannot speak in computer language, so you interface bet. IT and them. Or course these jobs are usually more often avail. in big companies.

Irregardless of the MIS degree specifically, and not to sound sexist, but during the IT boom, many women who got into IT tried and did gravitate to such jobs.