Career Development at UMSI

Last year around this time, Joanna Kroll, UMSI's Director of Career Development wrote about how career development at UMSI contributes to student success.  Below is a re-post of her letter, including a link to our 2013 Employment Report.

In the report you'll find data on our graduates - where they work, how many are employed or continuing their graduate education (99%!), and much more.  Career development is not an afterthought for UMSI, it's an integrated part of the program.  For more information, read Joanna's letter, check out the report, and the careers portion of our website.
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UMSI places a high priority on your career success. The UMSI Career Development Office will work to foster a positive career development experience for you, from your first day at SI through graduation, and beyond. Our goal is to guide you in building a career development skill set that will help you succeed for a lifetime.

Our Careers team works closely with you in assessing your career interests, exploring career options, and developing effective job search strategies for securing internships and full-time positions through individual career counseling sessions, professional development workshops, employer/alumni panels and networking events. It is our goal to not only help you secure internships and jobs, but to help direct you to the career pathway that is the best fit in terms of your values, beliefs, strengths and goals.  We will help you connect with a broad range of employers through job postings, arranging resume collections and on-campus recruiting, connecting  with alumni across fields, and actively engaging in outreach to employers in the U.S. and abroad!

As a UMSI graduate you will find awesome and diverse career opportunities available to you.  Our graduates are in high demand with top organizations across the U.S. and abroad.  From major software firms such as Microsoft, Apple, and IBM; to national libraries and archives such as the National Library of Medicine and the National Archives and Records Administration; to eBusiness  firms such as Google, Amazon and EBay; to social media companies such as Facebook and LinkedIn; our graduates are recruited by companies and corporations from small to large in a wide range of industries.

UMSI graduates are working as digital media archivists for some of the world's leading creators of entertainment content; as a chief information officer for an international nonprofit organization; as an associate fellow for the world's largest medical library; as an information protection advisor for one of the largest professional services companies in the world;  as an emerging technologies librarian for one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation, to a user experience designer for the world's largest search engine.  For a more comprehensive look into the careers of UMSI graduates, check out our most recent employment report.

Joanna Kroll
Director of Career Development
University of Michigan School of Information