Employers Report Record Intern-Conversion Rate

Not only are employers expecting to increase internship hires by 8.5 percent over last year, but they’re also reporting record-breaking conversion rates, according to results of NACE’s 2012 Internship & Co-op Survey. Read more….

2012 MAD Contest Winners Announced

School of Information Technology (IT) graduate student Surekha Methuku (pictured (center) with Kentrica Coleman of State Farm (L) and Dr. Joaquin Vila-Ruiz, IT (R)), candidate for the M.S. Degree in Information Systems with a concentration in Internet Application Development, was named the winner of the 2012 Mobile Application Development (MAD) Contest, sponsored by State Farm. State Farm representative Kentrica

IT Student Rebecca Duxler Awarded AITP Scholarship

School of Information Technology student Rebecca Duxler was named one of two Robert Half Technology/AITP Scholarship recipients during the 2012 AITP National Collegiate Conference  on Friday, March 30, 2012 in San Antonio, Texas. Each year, Robert Half Technology and the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) offer two $2,500 scholarships to two outstanding AITP Student

Internship Opportunity – On Campus

Position Title: Student Intern – Business Process Analyst BPCC Company: ISU Administrative Technologies – eMerge Internship /Temporary/Permanent: Internship Application period closes April 30 Description: Purpose of Position This eMerge Internship posting is for a Business Process Analyst to work in collaboration with the Business Process Competency Center (BPCC) unit. The intern for this position will

Internship Opportunity – On Campus

Position Title: Student Intern – Business Analyst BACC Company: ISU Administrative Technologies – eMerge Internship /Temporary/Permanent: Internship Application period closes on April 30 Description: Purpose of Position This eMerge Internship posting is for a Business Analyst to work in collaboration with the Business Application Competency Center (BACC) unit. The intern for this position will work

IT Student Jennilee Benda earns award

Jennilee Benda, a Junior Information Systems major in the School of Information Technology, earned the 3rd place award for Computer Concepts at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) 2012 State Leadership Conference, held at Thelma Keller Convention Center in Effingham, IL , April 13 – 14, 2012. She now advances to the national competition. The Computer

Oracle Database Administrator Position

Position Title: Oracle Database Administrator Company: Business Intelligence and Technology Solutions, ISU Full time/Part time: Full time Description: Purpose of Position Work with technical architects to ensure data model meets the platform’s requirements for the business and technical perspective. Define fail-over strategies and distributed data strategies. Ensure database objects (views, stored procedures, triggers, constraints, etc.)

Helping Military Veterans Overcome Job-search Challenges

When military veterans try to enter of reenter the U.S. work force, they face several obstacles that career services practitioners should understand and help them overcome. One free resource …. is the Occupational Network’s online military crosswalk, which allows users to search military occupations to determine knowledge, skills, abilities, and more, and give a clearer

Summer 2012 – IS Internship – web

Position Title: Information Systems (IS) Web Internship Company: The Village of Gurnee, IL Internship /Temporary/Permanent: Internship Description: Employees in this position perform routine and semi-complex work related to information systems. Employees in this position generally are persons pursuing higher education and require internship experience as a supplement to formal course work. Position could extend beyond

IT Internship – Summer 2012

Position Title: IT Intern – Developer Company: Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. Internship /Temporary/Permanent: Internship Location: Westchester, IL Description: Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leading provider of loss recovery services to the insurance industry, is looking to fill an Information Technology internship for summer 2012 at our corporate office in Westchester, IL. We are seeking an