Career Opportunities with a Degree in… Information Systems

Your Skills and the Employment Market

Possible Career Opportunities

Sample Jobs

Further Study Opportunities

What Past Graduates Have Done

Resources in the Careers Information Room

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Your skills and the employment market

Studying IS has built up a range of skills that are highly valued by employers including:

• Database skills
• Team work skills
• Problem solving skills and decision making skills
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Project Management

Graduates who aim to become managers of IS, typically enter through programming / systems analysis routes and gain management experience through projects.

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Possible Career Opportunities

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Note: Further qualifications may be needed for certain positions. This list is a sample of positions available. Up to 40% of graduate employment opportunities are open to graduates of all disciplines.  In most cases, however you will need further postgraduate study or professional training. 

Career opportunities are available in all sectors. Examples include:

• Financial institutions
• The oil and gas industry
• Retail organisations
• Government bodies
• Colleges and universities
• Consulting companies
• Telecommunications
• The energy sector
• Manufacturing firms

Call to the Career Development Centre and have a consultation with a career development advisor to explore your career opportunities.

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Sample Jobs

Some jobs advertised that may suit students / graduates (these jobs are NOT currently available and are shown here for illustration purposes only).

Intern, SAP Galway. Must have completed 2nd year of relevant course e.g., BIS. To assist with maintenance for SQL server and database.

Intern, Pioneer Investments, Dublin. To assist in updating of databases and presentations & knowledge gathering projects within the Investment Communication team.

Graduate Network Administrator, Davy Stokebrokers. Min 2.1 in Information Systems. To work in IS team that manages the IT infrastructure / data network. Excellent oral and written communication, ability to work accurately to deadline, team working skills & ability to work on own initiative.

Technical Graduate, ProsCon Ltd, Cork. With ability to understand technology applied to business systems and general awareness of operating systems and networks.

Graduate Development Programme, IDA Ireland. Entrants have opportunity to spend some time working in an overseas office. Business, ICT degrees accepted. 

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Further study opportunities

For certain career choices, employers may look for candidates with further qualifications and training. 

To see the range of opportunities in NUI Galway please visit www.nuigalway.ie/courses .

The Careers Information Room has sections on Ireland and the UK (including individual prospectuses), USA (with guides to applying, funding and lists of courses), studying in EU countries as well as further afield.

Other postgraduate links:

http://www.postgradireland.com/ also contains useful information on postgraduate courses in Ireland

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/ is an excellent site for researching opportunities in the UK

http://ec.europa.eu/ploteus covers the EU. 

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What past graduates have done

Its is always interesting to know what fellow graduates have done after obtaining their degree at NUI, Galway.  Here is a sample of job titles and employers currently occupied by past students who studied IS.  This has recently been taken from First Destination Statistics.  

• Working with Goodbody Stockbrokers, Dublin
• Fund Accountant, BISYS Inc, Dublin
• Credit Analyst, Nortel, Galway
• IT Technician, Jurys, Dublin
• Webmaster, Student Media Group, Dublin
• Web Designer, O & E Group, Dublin
• Commercial Electronic Banking, BOI, Dublin
• Systems Tester, AIB Capital Markets, Dublin
• Domestic Settlements Officer, BOI Securities Services

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Resources in the Careers Information Room

 We have valuable information resources, experienced career development advisers and information staff on hand to help you with your queries.

Reference material in the Information Room includes:

Reference material in the Information Room includes:

• E-Commerce Uncovered
• Targetjobs IT
• Occupational Folders M (IT/Computing)
• gradireland

Drop into our information room and we will be happy to assist you.

For useful links see www.nuigalway.ie/careers/students/virtual .

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