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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The health of the job market for IS students is an important indicator of the success of our discipline. Yet, we don’t have national level data on placement, type of jobs, and on related factors such as career services, preparedness, and search strategies. In fact, today it is impossible to evaluate the IS job market. To grow as a discipline we need to provide guidance on the job market to those who choose to pursue a career in IS. To address this challenge, we are starting a project, first in the US, and then second in different regions in the world to tackle this problem. If you are outside the US and are interested in partnering, please contact me. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I invite you to participate in a comprehensive multi-year project that will produce an <i>annual job index</i> for the field of information systems. The project is being led by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and is sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Campbell Soup Company, and Merck and Co. To learn more please visit: <a href="http://ibit.temple.edu/isjobindex/">http://ibit.temple.edu/isjobindex/</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The project which focuses on collecting survey data from graduating students, will produce a systematic annual assessment of the IS job market including demographics (e.g., race, gender, region, type of degree), level of knowledge (e.g., enterprise architecture, data, solutions, communication, business functions), job search process (e.g., number applied, satisfaction, level of preparation, confidence in market), job search success (e.g., number of offers, salary, benefits), and job types (e.g., industry, type of job - analyst, database, development).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Courtesy of our sponsors each student respondent from a school that is on the list will get a $10 guaranteed gift card and the school will receive a confidential report. More than 35 TOP IS programs are already participating (see <a href="http://ibit.temple.edu/isjobindex/top-50-schools-is-job-index/">http://ibit.temple.edu/isjobindex/top-50-schools-is-job-index/</a> ). We can accommodate 15 more to create a TOP 50 list of benchmark IS schools. If your school would like to be included, please contact me at <a href="mailto:mandviwa@temple.edu">mandviwa@temple.edu</a>, and provide a rationale.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Munir Mandviwalla<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Associate Professor and Chair of MIS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Executive Director, Institute for Business and Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Fox School of Business, Temple University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:mandviwa@temple.edu"><span style='color:blue'>mandviwa@temple.edu</span></a>, 215.204.5617<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://community.mis.temple.edu/mmandviwalla"><span style='color:blue'>http://community.mis.temple.edu/mmandviwalla</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>