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IS Career Path, Preparation, and
Success

  • IS 460 Notes


  • by Thomas Hilton
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Career Preparation
“The Unexamined Life is
not Worth Living”
  • Know or learn your needs.
  • Find or learn activities, locale, people, credentials, pay, etc. That fill your needs.
  • Find a job that lets you perform the activities in the locale with the people, with the credentials, for the pay, etc.
  • Find an organization that will pay you to do the job.
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Getting Your First Job
  • Develop Technical Abilities
  • Develop Personal Traits
  • Develop Potential Employer Contacts
  • Develop Application Portfolio
  • Demonstrate Value You Can Add
  • Demonstrate Team Spirit
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Keeping Your First Job
  • Refine Personal Traits
  • Refine Technical Abilities
  • Maintain Off-job Contacts
  • Learn “Bureaucracy”
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Making
Your Career
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Present Job Trends
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Career InfoNet


  • Top IS Jobs Nationally
  • Top IS Jobs in WI
  • Top IS Jobs in MN
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How to Change Jobs
  • Reasons to Change Jobs
  • Precursors of Job Change
  • Ways to Accomplish the Change
  • What Not to Do