View Single Post
 
Old Jun 06, 2017, 03:46 PM
bubbles00's Avatar
bubbles00 bubbles00 is offline
Member
 
Member Since: Feb 2014
Location: City of Townsville
Posts: 394
I'm currently doing marketing/MIS. MIS is about software and integration between different departments in a business. A large part of it is software implementation in various different companies and getting rid of their old legacy system so everything is up to date. Therefore MIS is really "IT Management". For example, how do you get people to change their behaviour when implementing a new software, what should be your "checklist" to make sure things will go according to plan during the implementation, is it a good plan and is the software safe and secure?, is the software user friendly?, etc.

In MIS (at least in my school) we never learned any programming or coding or anything like that. We just learned how to use different softwares such as SAP, ARIS, and SQL.

Some careers are software consultants, MIS analyst, etc.

Also no, it's not very hard. Most of it is theory so it's just memorization.

Personally I would love a job in MIS as it seems right up my alley. But as I'm checking on indeed.com they're looking for people with lots of experience that also know programming. I was never taught programming in MIS so I guess it's something I have to self learn. Also another drawback that I see (at least in my uni) is that we learn max 3 softwares whereas there are many many more softwares such as Oracle and Sage 500 etc. I have no experience with those and some jobs require you to know how to use a variety of softwares. So all in all, it may take some initiative to learn more than what you're taught in class but your mileage will vary. Could be that your business school is more comprehensive than mine so you wouldn't need to.
__________________
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day." - Winnie the Pooh
Thanks for this!
Lifehurdles