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Overview
The
job market
preparation
Courses Experience
The Market
The
demand:
Outsourcing: IT job losses and gains Development of IT in traditionally non-ITintensive industries: gains
The
supply:
level jobs lost due to offshoring to developing countries like India, Philippines, & Russia: 2-3% each year
incoming: Indian outsourcing companies set up shop in the US and other developed countries While cost savings is one benefit, companies realize it gives them opportunities to
Rethink and re-organize their business processes Develop IT solutions to improve business process efficiency Offer more products and services to its employees and customers
Result:
higher productivity for US companies so more jobs overall More IT jobs thanks to outsourcing
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Lower Supply
Belief
of parents and students of poor job prospects in IT Decreasing number of foreign students in the US due to Visa and immigration restrictions: no longer the top choice for foreign students Salary gains: 2-5% annually
opportunities:
145 MIS positions registered in the business career system Only 35 students (including 18 interns) registered
High
starting salary:
Mean: $50,143 Median: $51,000 Second highest average salary of all UIUC business majors Signing bonus: average $1,916
Multiple
offers
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Interns
An
Greatly increase your value to future employers Understand what knowledge learned in school can (and cannot) be applied to the industry and how
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2005:
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Managerial
Business Analyst Management Analyst Systems Consultant Customer Relationship Management Consultant Risk Services Associate Risk Performance Services Consultant
Technical
Systems Analyst Systems Programmer Information Analyst
. many more
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corporations hire most graduates of the MIS program Our primary employers include many that would be readily recognized as large, successful, and well-managed companies in a wide range of industries
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Sample Employers
Corporate:
Hewitt Associates Accenture, Crowe Chizek Big Four: PwC, E&Y, KPMG, Deloitte Hitachi Consulting Protiviti
IT companies:
Nike, Abbott Labs, Caterpillar, John Deere, Eli Lilly, KimberlyClark BankOne (now Chase), AllState, State Farm General Electric IBM, Microsoft SBC (now AT&T)
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Corporate:
Protiviti: Tech Risk Consultant Accenture: Consultant KPMG: IT Advisory Associate Grant Thornton: IT Consultant
Abbott Labs: IT Prof. Dev. Prog. Caterpillar: IT Analyst Citigroup: Tech Leadership Prog. John Deere: Business Analyst Freddie Mac: Bus. Tech Associate
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suitable courses
Technologyrelated news your strengths (as MIS majors)
Technology
Read
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Business
Know
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Academic Preparation
Four
focal points
General education requirements College requirements Business Administration requirements MIS requirements
How
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BA352 (Database), 353 (IS Analysis and Design), 354 (Data Communications)
Advanced/Applied:
454 (Java Programming), 395MS1(IT Governance), 453(Decision Support Systems), 395ESM (IT Project Management)
No
BA432, BA391
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http://www.business.uiuc.edu/mis/courses/
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This introductory course teaches how IT affects and transforms organizational and industry structures. This course is designed to make the students knowledgeable of the fundamentals underlying the design, implementation, control, evaluation and use of modern information systems While some of the effort will be devoted to hands-on work with software, the major emphasis will be on the understanding the managerial and strategic aspects of information technology. Case studies, simulations, handson work, and article discussions will be used throughout the course.
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the modern concepts, techniques and management practices when dealing with data and use of data in organizations. Topics include data modeling, database logical and physical designs, implementation, database administration and web-based database environment. Students will be involved in constructing a database and researching an advanced topic to solidify the learning.
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steps in developing a management information system, including preliminary planning, design, feasibility analysis, implementation schedule, and post implementation review of the system; includes a semester-long project which familiarizes students with methodology and techniques.
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course stresses a top-down, business oriented approach to evaluating and selecting data communications technology. Students who successfully complete this course gain practical knowledge of network telecommunications technology, including hardware and software. They learn enough to allow them to help design systems that include network components.
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454 will help you understand how software designers develop software solutions to address real world problems. This course is designed with two main goals in mind: 1. To teach students the fundamental principles of object technology. 2. To teach students to design, implement and debug programs written in an object-oriented programming language (such as Java).
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Read
Technologyrelated news
your strengths (as MIS majors)
Technology
I
Business
Know
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Keeping Up to Date
Read
as much as you can online from IT resources Every little tid-bit helps
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Read
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Technology Business
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of the program:
Identify how IT can bring value to firm and how it cannot. Learn how to design and build computer-based information systems Think critically about future technology and the future firm
When
you leave here you will be well-rounded graduates who are ready to contribute to organizations as soon as you begin working.
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Other computer-related academic programs, such as Computer Science and Software Engineering, focus exclusively on developing the technical skills of computer professionals and do not cover the functional areas of business that are supported by technology.
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Getting Ready
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summer jobs related to MIS starting in your sophomore year. The more MIS-related experience you can show on your rsum, the more interesting you will look to potential employers. Get as much IT coursework done before senior year.
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corporations that hire our graduates usually know their hiring needs a year in advance. They begin to recruit in September for positions they hope to fill by the following August This means that students who expect to graduate from the program should begin interviewing with the employers who visit our campus in September of their senior year. In other words, it is neither foolish nor unwise to begin interviewing for a permanent placement ten months before you expect to graduate
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Useful References
UIUC
Business Career Services job salary survey: http://www.business.uiuc.edu/bcs/employer s/placement_statistics/index.html ACM survey on IT jobs:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/news/econo my/jobs_it_offshoring/index.htm
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