Career Development

Graduates from Information Management departments are currently one of the most wanted in related industries.

Most of our graduates have found themselves their first jobs in the field of MIS, i.e. Management Information Systems, doing related works, such as system analysis and information management, etc. There are other jobs available as well, namely network management, database management, software programming, webpage designing, etc.

Related Job Titles

MIS engineers, software programmers, system analysts, software engineers, webpage designers, database administrators, network engineers, and information managers, and so on.

Further Education & Research

As a response to the demand & supply of the actual market, colleges and universities in Taiwan have been either setting up Information Management departments/institutes, or recruiting more students. In light of that, pursuing further education or stepping into the field of research can be desired. As far as NDHU is concerned, the Department of Information Management will be setting up its postgraduate institute to provide students with more choices.

Generally speaking, there is a lack of university teachers specializing in Information Management; consequently, those who posses the qualification required and are interested in academic research or teaching can certainly take the opportunity.

Job Opportunities for Information Management Graduates (by Prof. Fang-Ming Hsu)

A lot of my students have come to me asking questions like, “We’re no better than Information Engineering students on information technology, and no better than Business Administration students on management, so what advantages do we really have?”. Their concerns sound reasonable, but once we look into it carefully, it’s not like what it seems.

We shall start by forming two different categories, Information Technology-oriented, and Commerce-oriented, and then we shall divide the industry (or job/career) into four different types shown below. The first industry is purely Information Technology-oriented, and the fourth one is purely commerce-oriented; the second and the third ones, business-related knowledge added gradually.

1. The first industry employs simply the knowledge acquired in the field of information engineering, and thus emphasizes solely the development of information technology or instruments. Software products produced by the industry are either system software including operating systems, compilers, utilities, editors, database platforms, etc., or hardware, such as IC design, interface card design, computer systems, etc.
2. The second industry employs both the knowledge of information technology and business administration. The platforms or instruments, such as Windows, Linux, SQL Server, JAVA, Oracle, Lotus Notes, etc., developed by the first industry are used as the foundation with the knowledge of business administration to develop and customize information systems needed, personnel and salary systems, accounting information systems, production management systems, marketing information systems, customer relationship management systems, enterprise resources planning systems for instance. Graduates majored in information management are suitable for the job, because the abovementioned systems require someone possessing both information technology and the knowledge of business administration.
3. The third industry does not develop software systems on its own; instead, it introduces into organizations the information systems, customer relationship management systems for instance, developed by the second industry, and then integrates the systems with information systems, organizations, computer operations, business collaborations, etc., to bring into full play the functions of information systems.
4. The fourth industry is purely based on the knowledge of business administration, and thus implements convention management on finance, marketing, production, etc. without touching the design and introduction of information systems. One can clearly see from the abovementioned classification that our graduates should pay attention to the second industry and/or the third industry regarding their future career, because both industries have come with certain barriers keeping graduates majored in information engineering and business administration out. The classification I have presented here is in fact a rough picture, i.e. not yet complete. Nonetheless, the classification has no objection against cross-discipline development, only suggests that different disciplines emphasize different aspects.