Career Path

Finding the right career path for me was challenging at the beginning of my college experience. I was not sure what I liked and what I was good at. It was only after I started working with technology when I discovered that I had a passion for it. I tried to learn as much as I could in the last two years of college so I could graduate and apply my skills to a suitable job position. Now that I have almost finalized with my studies at IUP, I feel more confident and ready to take on a job that will allow me to combine my business and technical skills.

Career Path..

My career path, my choices.. I often seriously sit and wonder how will I make it to where I want to go... Sometimes I kick myself wishing I'd started sooner.. I don't really know how I'm going to get there.. I do know where I want to be.. I think that my plan of hopefully submitting to some film festivals and doing an internship with the U.K. would definitely be beneficial and help me take that first step to where I need to be.. But nothing's for sure.. Sometimes I wonder if I'm too much of a dreamer and spend too much time in fantasy land.. But most times, I know.. I'm somehow headed in the right direction.. Everyone takes missteps but, I think for the most part, I'm going to where I need to be.. -fingers crossed-

-K.Francis.

My Career Plans (as of right now)

I am an English and Religious Studies major. My plans regarding what to do with these programs of study change faster than the weather, but I am pretty sure at this point I am planning to pursue an MA in Theology with an emphasis on Biblical Studies following my undergrad. With that, I’d like to work as a director of formation or religious education within a faith based organization and design curriculums for catechism based on social justice and radical Catholic social teaching along the lines of Dorothy Day (if you don’t know who she is, look her up! Her story is amazing.). I’m also thinking about getting an MFA in either poetry or fiction somewhere down the line and trying to get published (easier said than done).

Career Path

Majoring in Criminology has not made me want to become a police officer, although the path I want to go into I have to do 3 years of service before I can actually do my dream job. My dream job would be to become a criminal investigator. Recently, actually just yesterday, something may have changed that. I realized that becoming a criminal investigator I would be able to help find out why people commit crime, harm people, etc. but I wouldn't be stopping them. There is a video I watched, some may have heard of it, some may have not. It's called Kony 2012, it's about a Ugandan man who abducts children for his own personal army. As much as I could go on about this subject, it's better if you just watch the video. (http://vimeo.com/invisible/kony2012) From watching this video, I realized I still want to be a criminal investigator, but I want to be able to stop the "bad guys" from harming anyone else, I want to save someone, I want to make a difference in someones life. As far fetch as that dream may be, I plan to do something about it.

Career Path

The time has finally come, to decide what I want to do with my major. I'm open to a lot of new ideas in the technology field to see where that takes me. I used to be a computer science major but I switched to MIS. I think I just want to see were life takes me. Right now, I'm currently job hunting in the Pittsburgh Area. I've always loved technology and I like the Pittsburgh so  I think that'll be a good fit for me to start my career, where ever that maybe.

Career Path

I have always been thinking of a good definition for the word"Career" , when I graduated from my under-graduate school I did not think for a moment that I am going to work only in my field of study ! . I felt confident that I would be able to work wherever I find myself able to get the job done as it should be.
My first job started at a big company in Jordan which is Americana company for restaurants and tourism projects , My job was to study the places where they will open new restaurants,collect information about the area,analyze the customers preferences and desires, and then make a recommendations . I did my job and I almost was spending half of my day roaming those areas and meeting with people ,and my recommendations hit the target and exceeded the desired outcomes from my bosses.
My second job was very important, I was interviewed by the International Airport top level officials to be a supervisor of the VIP passengers services. I got the job after three interviews and started working and dealing with high level passengers from all over the world . I stayed in that job for one year and a half .
My third job was the one I loved which is teaching , I read an announcement for a job in UAE ,they were looking for a supervisor and business teacher , I applied , I was interviewed twice one in person and one on phone and I was given a test and finally got the contract .I went there and I taught for two academic year and I loved it .
Therefore, I find it interesting when talking about career , that does not mean I have to stick with my field of study but always when I think of my career or what I am looking for ,I will ask two questions and then match the answers if they match I will go ahead and take it if not then I am not gonna take it : what is my strength I mean what is my core of competence ? what does the job need done?

My Career Path

I'm a Management Information System major student. I just love solving IT problems and doing business at the same time. I was really lucky to be given opprtunitys to create my own career path. When I was in middle school, one of my mum's friend who owned a IT company invited me to help out in her office. I learned so much from the technician. Since that, I fell in love with IT. I even went for classes to learn some basic. I started to fix my computers and figure out new problems. Also, I was offered to work in Eberly RND for awhile and that experience was precious. I learned a lot from there and even working in the computer lab now I was being challenge by some students with computer problems. It was just so interesting to me to able to work on different scenario everytime. I'm still not a professional now but I'm just trying to learn as much as I can. Taking all the classes in IUP definitely helped me a lot with what I'm hoping for.

Besides, you might be curious why don't I pick Computer Science instead of Management Information System. Management Information System offers me two different fields, business and technology.  Since I was strongly influenced by my businessman dad and this major just works perfectly for me. Anyway, I would still love to be a IT technician. Even though it can be frustrating sometimes when I couldn't fix it especially a programming error. However, when it was fixed, the feeling of it was great especially when I saw the happiness and smile on the customers. In the future, I would like to own my business. It will most probably related to IT. I still have a long way to go and hopefully my goal can be accomplished in no time.