[offer]: marketing@UIUC

birdxxx

只申请了这么一个marketing program，今天收到了正式的email通知，之前有面试，面试之后就有口头的offer了。

本来不打算报的，因为要decline，但是看今天offer这么多我就也凑个热闹

我没有marketing的background，上学和工作都和marketing不相干，所以可以鼓励一下未来跨专业申marketing的人吧，不过有一个marketing professor帮我写了推荐信，可能有很大帮助

buckeyeTD

You want to decline it? Marketing has a much better job market than IS does. Anyway, congrats!

birdxxx

以下是引用buckeyeTD在2007-3-15 21:19:00的发言：

You want to decline it? Marketing has a much better job market than IS does. Anyway, congrats!

，several people (including some marketing professors) try to persuade me by the better job market too.

I read again the two papers about IS academic job market cometqq  posted last year. And I heard a lot about the severe job market and the so-called identity crisis in IS discipline. But I still choose to join an IS program just because I studied and worked in this field for many years and I think my interest, and maybe my strength, is here.

Based on my limited working experience as an IT consultant, I think IS should be an important discipline in business school, but how comes current difficulty? Many professors said it is because of the burst of IT bubble, but I think at least it is partly because of the immaturity of this discipline. Maybe this kind of immaturity means also an opportunity for us...

不是有个美国人说过，Crisis(危机) in Chinese has two words, one means danger, the other means opportunity.

ProfCPA

Glad to see your commitment to the research..  I think that weighs over the hardness of the job market.

buckeyeTD

Don't make a blind decision. You need to do a very informed one since you face two very distinctive career choices. I don't doubt the advantage you will take from the disciplinary inertia, but an innovative change may make you more efficient down the road, not to mention the material return.

birdxxx

Thanks a lot for ProfCPA's encouragement and BuckeyeTD's advice.  Making choice is always hard, especially under information limitation and uncertainty...

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beautifulmind

支持！

Viky9

Man, If I were in your position, I would choose Austin too.

If someone are to rejuvenate the IS field, they should be you Austin people!

phd2007

absolutely no idea about UT-Austin IS program. I'd say that UT-Dallas has better IS program than UT-Austin now.

papawaigo

以下是引用phd2007在2007-3-16 1:18:00的发言：
absolutely no idea about UT-Austin IS program. I'd say that UT-Dallas has better IS program than UT-Austin now.

     I doubt. UT-Dallas better than UT-Austin in MIS?