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Students of the iSchool – Graduate Student Assistant

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On January 26, 2015

In Commonwealth Scholarship Interests, Current Students, Prospective Students, Shayla

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Photo Credit: Jourdan Walls

Name: Tom Charly

Program: MST

Job title: Graduate Student Assistant

Why did you choose Pitt?

The process of applying to Pitt as an international student was rather simple and smooth. The Student Services team was replying to my queries and was helpful in my application process. Dr. Linus Pauling said “Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life”, my inspiration to pursue engineering echoed from this quote. Even as a small child, I wondered how the simplest of devices worked. This curiosity helped me understand my coursework while enjoying what I learned. I decided to pursue my Masters in Computer Networking and Telecom after I took and internship at BSNL (the largest telecom and network company in India). I was introduced to topics such as broadband tech, switching systems, digital transmissions, mobile communication, and telecom support infrastructure. This experience made me realize how very little I knew, which instilled in me a desire to learn more.

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FAQs Series: What Jobs Can I Get? (before and after IS/Tele program)

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On January 10, 2015

In Prospective Students

I have been answering a lot of the same questions from prospective students and first semester students about Pitt and I thought that’d I’d put some of the top questions onto the blog in a series of entries.

One of the top questions asked is what jobs can they get during and after their MSIS and MST program. This is is simple: LOTS!!

During

So, you can go different routes with this. You can do an internship or just an on-campus job.

I work for Student Services in the School of Information Sciences. This is an administrative job where you handle correspondence with prospective and current students, process admissions and registration documents, and participate in recruitment events.

There are other students that work for CSSD. This is more of a tech/help-desk positions. So, it’s kind of along the lines of our field of study. Check the link out for what applications are available!

During and After

Internships are usually offered in the summer, but there are other places that offer to extend your time into the school year. I’ve used a lot of these websites to find employment:

  • Indeed.com
  • USAJobs.gov – for domestic students
  • Monster.com
  • Internships.com
  • Startuphire.com

Student Services also brings employers throughout the year; especially, during iFest when they have a Career & Internship Expo. Some of the employers that have communicated with the iSchool and have expressed interest in their students in the past:

Outside of Students Services, iSchool students have been able to acquire internships/jobs at some of these organizations:

Based on the iSchool Website:

  • • United States Steel Corporation
    • Westinghouse Electric Company
    • IBM
    • Citigroup
    • Eli Lilly & Company
    • Apple, Inc.
    • FedEx Ground
    • Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield
    • Exxon Mobil Corporation
    • Cisco Systems Inc.
    • UPMC Hospital
    • Siemens Global
    • Mellon BNY
  • • British Telecommunications
    • Ericsson Inc.
    • Consol Energy
    • ECI Telecommunications
    • General Electric
    • Hughes Network Systems
    • Union Switch and Signal
    • PPG Industries, Inc.
    • US Steel
    • Eli Lilly and Company
    • Bechtel Bettis
    • Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications

A Pre-Arrival Reading List for the MLIS Program.

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On January 2, 2015

In Current Students, Prospective Students, Shayla

I was in the office and found a suggested reading list for the MLIS program. I had no idea that this existed before I applied, but it might be helpful for someone.

Below are some titles collected from faculty and students in the past. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, and none of these readings are required as a pre-requisite to starting the program; however, they may be helpful in preparing for your studies.

Presentation zen : simple ideas on presentation design and delivery / Garr Reynolds.
A new culture of learning: cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change / John Seely Brown.
Networks without a cause, a critique of social media / Geert Lovink.
Too big to know : rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren’t the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room / David Weinberger.
This book is overdue! : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all / Marilyn Johnson.
The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English Dictionary / Simon Winchester.
Twenty-first-century kids, twenty-first-century librarians / Virginia A. Walter.
The design of everyday things / Donald A. Norman.
Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / Lawrence Lessig.
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With / Sherry Turkle.
The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
Who Owns Native Culture?
Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Scrapbooks: An American History
The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution
Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters
Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories
Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
The Passport in America: The History of a Document
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management

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