Before Graduation
This document helps students track required courses and progress toward their IS degree.
What is a degree audit?
This onboarding period helps new graduates adjust to workplace expectations.
What is orientation?
IT professionals often ask this when a computer problem can’t be explained.
What is “Did you try turning it off and on again?”
This smart home device uses sensors and Wi‑Fi to automatically adjust the temperature.
What is a smart thermostat?
This interview style asks candidates to describe how they handled past situations.
What is a behavioral interview?
This experience gives students hands‑on exposure to real industry work before graduating.
What is an internship?
Many IS graduates begin their careers in this support‑focused role.
What is a help desk or IT support?
This common issue occurs when someone repeatedly forgets their password.
What is a password reset?
This cloud model provides virtual machines, storage, and networking.
What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
This term refers to the salary range offered for a job role.
What is a pay band?
This campus office helps students with résumés, interviews, and job searches.
What is Career Services?
This type of learning continues after graduation to keep skills up to date.
What is professional development?
This phrase describes a user who insists “nothing changed” right before IT discovers everything has changed.
What is user error?
This cyberattack tricks users into revealing sensitive information through fake emails.
What is phishing?
This retirement benefit often includes employer matching.
What is a 401(k)?
This IS course introduces relational databases, SQL, and data modeling.
What is Database Management?
This tool helps teams track tasks, deadlines, and project progress.
What is a project management system (e.g., Jira, Trello)?
This funny situation occurs when someone takes a photo of their monitor instead of a screenshot.
What does it mean not to know how to take a screenshot?
This technology uses algorithms to identify patterns and make predictions.
What is machine learning?
This negotiation topic includes salary, remote work, PTO, and benefits.
What is a job offer negotiation?
This document summarizes your skills, experience, and accomplishments in one page.
What is a résumé?
This term refers to the total package of salary, benefits, and perks.
What is a compensation package?
This classic IT joke refers to a problem caused by the user.
What is a PEBKAC error?
This term describes a system’s ability to continue operating even when components fail.
What is fault tolerance?
This term describes moving into higher‑level roles with more responsibility.
What is career advancement?