What
is means by career? Have you ever wonder what type of career you will be in
after you grad. Based on our reading, career is an occupation that will be joining
by you in a certain period of time. The careers actually accompanied by paid
employment. Some activities that relate with careers are education, paid and
unpaid work and also training.
After
you graduate from any courses in Science Information, there have many chances
for you to start your career whether it is in public sector or private sector.
There have two parts in choosing the career. The first one is after you
graduate from diploma and it is consider as semiprofessional. Then, bachelor
graduated will be considering as a professional team. In the Science Information
field, we got various job opportunities waiting for you as a fresh graduate. As
you know Information Science are divided into four main courses which are Bachelor of Information Science
(Hons) Library Management (IM244), Bachelor of Information Science (Hons)
Information Systems Management (IM 245), Bachelor of Information Science (Hons)
Records Management (IM 246) and Bachelor of Information Science (Hons) Resource
Centre Management (IM 247). For this article we will highlight you with a few
jobs that might be yours especially for a degree holder.
Librarian
For the people who graduate from Bachelor of
Information Science (Hons) Library Management and Bachelor of Information
Science (Hons) Resource Centre Management, they can try for a librarian. Librarian
is someone who professionally works in library. Their task usually relating to
the materials equip in library such as given an access to information, computer
literacy and assist user in the library. Besides that, librarians also a group
of people that associated with the collections of library materials. Library
materials stated here are collections of books, electronic sources, newspapers,
magazines, graphic materials and many more. In addition, librarian can work in
a few types of library like public library, academic library, school library
and special library. Every library stated here is difference but most of them
are dealing with bunch collections of materials like was stated. The roles and
responsibilities of library are usually depending on the type of library and
the size of the library. According to
Olivia Crosby, 2008 she describes librarians as “Information experts in the
information age”. Some of the area experts by librarians are acquisition or
collection development. The librarians are responsible in selecting materials
that will be the collections. Meanwhile, electronic resources librarian will be
responsible in managing library databases also involving in computer and
information literacy. In addition, reference librarians will help people or
researcher to look for the information needed. Salary offered for a librarian
in Malaysia is 1909.00 MYR minimum and up to 8644.00 MYR. However it is
difference if you work as a librarian in a private sector. The salary might
higher than public sector.
Information consultant
Information consultant is a person who
responsible in guiding user to look for the information. Usually information
consultant will have a partnership with the faculty and student to facilitate
teaching and research. These two parties will collaborate on the strategy of
meaningful learning experiences for students and the consultant will also
providing relevant value added information. Information consultant is more into
consulting relationship.
System analyst
Next is, if you graduate in Bachelor of
Information Science (Hons) Information Systems Management you are able to
become a system analyst. System analyst is a person who expert in IT also
called as IT professional. The system analyst is a team who expert in
analyzing, designing and implementing information systems. System analyst is
different from programmer which the main task of system analyst is to identify
the problems in organization then, they will start designing for a system that
can change or solve the problem faced by the organization. Besides that, they
also responsible to educate and motivate others to use the system design by
them. In addition, system analyst might familiar with programming things such
as programming languages, computer hardware and operating system but normally
this team are not involved in the real hardware or software development. Their
responsibility is more to developing cost analysis, design consideration and
implementation timeliness. They might be considered as a person behind the
system itself. The salary for a system analyst is quite impressive which
starting salary is from 4000.00 MYR and it will increase more based on the
requirement of today market.
Programmer
Other than being a system analyst you also
can try to be a programmer. Programmer is a person who responsible in writing
computer software. People who become a programmer must deal with computer
languages such as C++, JavaScript, COBOL, Python and many more. As a programmer
you can work in many organizations at a different sector. Nowadays, the demand
for a programmer is really high. Besides that, as a programmer you also can
generate your own income. For example, you can create good software or
application and you can sell it to huge organization with high prices. Other
than that, the salary offered by a programmer is about 5525.00 MYR. Meanwhile
the environment in working as a programmer also very comfortable which you will
always work in office.
Archivist
Lastly, if you grad from Bachelor of
Information Science (Hons) Records Management you can challenge yourself in
becoming an archivist. Archivist is a group of people that have been trained on
how to preserve the original material as well as helping people to access for
the materials. Archivists are working with the collection of paper documents,
maps, audiovisual, photograph and electronics records. Some of the task doing
by archivist is to determine value of records. According to Richard
Pearce-Moses, 2006 he wrote "Archivists keep records that have enduring
value as reliable memories of the past, and they help people find and
understand the information they need in those records." The quote is
complement what are the main task of an archivist. Other than that, an
archivist can work in variety organization as long as the organization produce
and managing records. Besides that, if you are interested in becoming an
archivist on abroad you do so in a few countries that famous with their
archival collection and archives. For example, you can work in Australia, United
Kingdom and United States. The salary offered for an archivist is about 1909.00
MYR minimum and can up to 8644.00 MYR based on the position hold.
In conclusion, Science Information offered us
variety job opportunities as well as chances to generate our own income.
Besides the job stating above, there still have many kind of job related with
our field that we can discover through the time. The entire job stated above
are very useful for Science Information student also to the people who will be
joining our field in the future.
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