Employers

Host hour-long sessions where an employer comes to present information to the students about the organization. Employers can also discuss the specific positions or sets of jobs that they're hiring for.

These are typically 30-minute to two-hour-long sessions where an employer comes to discuss concepts related to their field! One example of a previous workshop was teaching UX students how to make a compelling portfolio. Our office holds workshops as well and we would love to collaborate with you!

Participate in a panel with members of your company, or members from multiple companies, where you can share industry trends on job markets and hiring practices, plus talk about your company’s opportunities.

Meet with students one-on-one or in small groups for 20 to 30 minutes to discuss recruiting, your company culture, and more.

Schedule interviews for open internships, part-time, or full-time positions at your company with top candidates.

Career fairs are great opportunities for employers and recruiters to share information about their organization and job openings with many students from different educational and professional backgrounds. While the iSchool does not host our own career fair, many other departments around UT’s campus host career fairs that are open to all students and employers. To see more information about participating in career fairs and upcoming events, visit Career Fair & Events Calendar page on Texas Career Engagement’s website.

The iSchool CDO sometimes hosts a Capstone fair in the fall semester. If you are interested in participating, please see the iSchool Capstone – Professional Experience Project (PEP) session below.

To create a PEP opportunity, here are a few things to consider:

• There must be significant deliverables or outcomes. The PEP is not the same as an internship. In internships, you may have students go through specific trainings, or have them complete regular duties. In contrast, the PEP is meant to be a specific project a student completes or makes progress on that addresses issues or challenges that your company faces.
• This is a one semester project. Students’ PEP takes place over the course of one semester. If you have a project you think will take longer than one semester that is okay! You will just need to consider if this project is appropriate to take on new people each semester, and whether or not there can be mid-project outcomes or deliverables students can meet each semester.
• Student must have an individual or specific role on your team. The capstone experience is meant to be an individual project for MSIS students. However, if you are wanting to bring on a student as a part of a team that is okay as long as there are specific outcomes or deliverables the individual student can meet in their PEP.
• There must a field supervisor. For a student to complete a PEP project, there must be someone from the organization participating who will serve as the student’s field supervisor. The field supervisor is someone the student can report to in their work and who will evaluate the students work on the project throughout.
• Special considerations. Before posting your PEP, think about any special conditions or restrictions that may apply to your project. This can include team size, public display of project or company information, work authorization, intellectual property, etc.

iSchool students develop a variety of interdisciplinary skills during their graduate studies, including training in the following areas:

• archival science, curation, and preservation
• data science and analytics
• data engineering
• machine learning
• library science and librarianship
• UX/UI design or research and human computer interaction

We welcome PEP opportunities in any of these areas! To see examples of PEP opportunities, please visit the Capstone Archives page. Under the “Capstone Type” column, see the project with the label, “Professional Experience Projects”.