What courses outside the major do you recommend for a busines or even an MIS major?
Surprisingly, I recommend theater, public speaking, communications, and journalism courses on interviewing, reporting, technical and creative writing (And improvisational acting/comedy workshops; businesses promote these: there is value in being able to ‘think on your feet.’). These will help you pick up important skills that you don’t normally get within the MIS major or business courses. Recruiters look for these skills. They know that you know the MIS stuff. Also, take something that you really enjoy so that you’ll have something else to talk about with recruiters and future work colleagues. Develop a hobby or outside interest.. Q: Why don’t you have standard, formal suit and tie photos of you on your Web and course Web sites? A: I got tired of using them. I thought it would be more interesting to show you photos of me in more interesting places around the world doing more interesting things (like in Grand Cayman Island, Key West, France, The Netherlands, Costa Rica, Colombia, etc.)
