BSc (ISM) Programme

Alumni Employment Update

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BSc (ISM) graduates.
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Student Internship Update

The table below shows more and more firms are participating in the Internship Programme and more internship openings are available to SIS students.

Summary of Internship Job Placements for BSc (ISM) students based on internship experiences in 2004-2007

Our SIS students share their Internship experiences…

Olivia CHIU SIS Undergraduate Student (Batch 2006)

"Having the ability to explain IT jargons to Business people and Business terms to IT people convinced me that I am in the right course, as there is definitely a special place for SIS graduates in the real world."

Doing an internship at Rabobank International is like a plunge into the sea of knowledge where anyone you meet in the office is able to teach you something. SIS instills the importance of humility and learning to learn independently in its students, and that proves to be very desirable traits at work. Although I am in Year 1 (coming Year 2) and from a JC background, learning a new programming language and using unfamiliar development software to develop a system on my own proved to be less challenging than I expected. Professors were always an email or a phone call away to encourage and assist me in accomplishing my task.

More importantly, I witnessed the power of the BSc (ISM) programme during a system development meeting between the IT and Business Department. Having the ability to explain IT jargons to Business people and Business terms to IT people convinced me that I am in the right course, as there is definitely a special place for SIS graduates in the real world.

HAN Jun Kwang SIS Undergraduate Student (Batch 2006)

"Being given the freedom to do research, design and develop web services has been an enriching experience for me."

My internship experience covers the integration of web services into web-based content management systems. Web services is a new paradigm for information exchange between systems deployed on the Internet, which no doubt is related closely to our Information Systems course. Being given the freedom to do research, design and develop web services has been an enriching experience for me. This experience is certainly applicable in school for projects that would involve the passing of information, which basically covers everything.

Kelvin LEE SIS Undergraduate Student (Batch 2005)

"Understanding end users' business needs and using IT as a tool to develop solutions allow me to grow tremendously."

After more than a month on internship with Philip Morris, my learning curve has steeped up and I have to say that it has been a great experience so far. I have the opportunity of taking up Philip Morris Project Management and had a crash course on the project management fundamentals specific to Philip Morris business model. Other activities engaged include User Acceptance Test and Documentation. Philip Morris relies on IT heavily to process their sales orders and it was IT that strung up Philip Morris Distribution, Warehouse, Sales information, Consumer Behaviour. Understanding end users' business needs and using IT as a tool to develop solutions allow me to grow tremendously. However, it was the realisation of how business processes work in a very unique industry and how a global organisation uses information services that made my internship experience memorable.

Sumit SHARAN SIS Undergraduate Student (Batch 2005)

"One of the most important things they highlighted was the increasing importance of people with a sense of understanding, not only on the IT front, but on the business front as well - basically what SMU SIS is all about."

I recently had my induction, and the Campus Recruitment Head as well as recent graduates hired into Credit Suisse spoke during the session. One of the most important things they highlighted was the increasing importance of people with a sense of understanding, not only on the IT front, but on the business front as well - basically what SMU SIS is all about. What they said brought back to memory all that Prof. Miller, Prof. Desai and my other SIS professors have been talking about. Hearing it from Credit Suisse managers and recently hired employees, was really inspiring and made me glad that I chose to pursue my degree in Information Systems Management at SMU. I also met up with a member of the SIS pioneer intake who recently joined Credit Suisse. It's great to meet up with your seniors where you work!

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