Career Opportunities

School of Informatics provides an academic path for students who are interested in pursuing a career that combines computing and information technology with another academic discipline.  Information technology is a growing and changing field, and the study of informatics provides students with the skills to solve problems and be adaptable.

While some of the future job titles for IT jobs don't even exist yet, some current career options include:

• Biology/chemistry informatics specialist
• Biomedical informaticist
• Chief information officer
• Chief medical information officer
• Computer forensics specialist
• Database developer/manager
• Data-mapper
• Digital artist
• Digital library specialist
• E-commerce specialist
• Human-computer interface designer
• Information architect
• Interaction designer
• IT consultant
• Master system administrator
• Multimedia specialist
• Network forensics specialist
• Network manager
• Nursing informaticist
• Pharmacy informaticist
• Public Health informaticist
• Software developer
• Software security specialist
• Stage and lighting designer
• Systems integrator
• Technical writer
• Usability analyst
• User experience analyst
• Webmaster
• Web designer

Career Articles

A Paradigm Shift in Computing and IT Education
Communications of the ACM, June 2004
Hal Berghel (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and David L. Sallach (Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, IL)
 
Globalization and Offshoring of Software
A Report of the ACM Job Migration Task Force, Jan. 2006
William Aspray, Frank Mayadas, and Moshe Y. Vardi
http://www.acm.org/globalizationreport/
 
Offshoring: Finally Facts vs. Folklore
Communications of the ACM, Feb. 2006
David Patterson
 
Detailed Offshoring Study Assesses Rapid Changes

ACM Press Release, Feb. 2006
 
Why Good Technologists Are Hard to Find
March 21, 2006 - ComputerWorld

Other General Articles

First woman to win the Turing Award - IBM's Fran Allen wins "Nobel Prize of computing"
Feb. 21, 2007