{"id":914,"date":"2018-09-06T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/professionalachievement\/?p=914"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:29:12","slug":"mary-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/professionalachievement\/mary-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary Jones is for transfer students, freshman should look at Josie Smith<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Junior<\/h3>\n

Mary Jones just completed two years at another institution and is now transferring to Temple as a Junior.\u00a0 She has declared MIS as her major.\u00a0 She knows that she has a requirement of 1000 points<\/a> in order to graduate and she wants to start working on the points as soon as fall semester starts.\u00a0 She also understands that this will take her 2.5 years to graduate (unless she takes MIS 2101 in the summer before she starts at Temple).<\/p>\n

\"\"The first thing that she does in the fall semester is she creates her portfolio<\/a>.\u00a0 Since she is already a Junior, she wants to get started with this because she has looked at the MIS community site and understands that the portfolio is very important to her success as a MIS major.\u00a0 Mary uses the tips and tools on the MIS community site to start her portfolio on her own.\u00a0\u00a0 She submits her basic portfolio and gets her first 50 points, which she can see on her Professional Achievement dashboard<\/a>.\u00a0 \"Dashboard\"<\/a>Here she can also see how she is doing compared to other students who are comparable to her class wise and she can track how she is doing in regards to graduation.<\/p>\n

Mary is not satisfied with just having 50 points at the end of the fall semester so she also signs up for the IT Career Fair in the fall<\/a>.\u00a0 She really wants an internship for this coming summer and has heard that she needs to start early to get one! Attending the IT Career Fair gets her another 50 points.<\/p>\n

\"AIS\"<\/a>Meanwhile, Mary has also signed up to be part of the Association for Information Systems<\/a> or AIS.\u00a0 AIS is the student organization for MIS students and they hold weekly meetings and workshops where students can earn points.\u00a0 Mary ends up attending five professional development workshops held by AIS during the fall semester and earns 50 points.\u00a0 She is also an active member in AIS, which means she has an portfolio, she attended at least 7 speaker series meetings, 1 social event and 2 community service events so she gets another 50 points.<\/p>\n

The Spring semester rolls around and Mary decides to take a look at the PRO Points Calendar<\/a>, which is available on the PRO site and is open for all students to see.\u00a0 She sees an interesting event that is happening in a few days on campus about starting a business so she signs up for the event.\u00a0 Since it is preapproved and on the PRO Points Calendar already, she does not need to do anything else prior to her attending the event except register.\u00a0 After the event, Mary logs in to her Professional Achievement dashboard and clicks on manage points to add in the start a business event she just attended.\u00a0 She knows that she has to submit this event within three months of attending so she makes sure to do it right away so she does not forget.\u00a0 Mary submits her supporting documentation, which in this case, is her nametag from the event.\u00a0 In a few days, she checks her Professional Achievement dashboard and she sees that she has earned 25 points for attending a professional development event at an external organization.<\/p>\n

\"IT<\/a>Spring semester also brings about the big event for MIS students, the IT Awards Reception<\/a>.\u00a0 Since Mary knows how important it is to network, she signs up for the event and signs up for a volunteer slot.\u00a0 After the reception, she receives another 25 points for attending and 25 points for volunteering.\u00a0 Mary also attended five more AIS workshops this semester and she was an active member, earning her 100 more points.\u00a0 That brings her up to 475 points for her Junior year at Temple!<\/p>\n

Mary was able to secure an IT related internship at QVC during the summer.\u00a0 Upon completion of her summer internship (which was more than 8 weeks), Mary submits her request for professional achievement points.\u00a0 She attaches her offer letter to her request and in a few days receives 400 points for completing the internship.\u00a0 Also during the summer, Mary competes in an IT related challenge off campus.\u00a0 Since she got it preapproved before competing, she is able to submit this challenge for 50 points.\u00a0 She did not win but it was a great experience!<\/p>\n

Senior<\/h3>\n

Senior year rolls around and Mary is even more involved in AIS this year.\u00a0 She is an active member, both in the spring and the fall semesters (100 points), she is an AIS officer (75 points), and she attended five workshops in the spring (50 points).\u00a0 She also attends the IT Career Fair (50 points) and the IT Awards (25 points) again this year.\u00a0 Mary was a volunteer at the IT Career Fair this year and received 25 points for assisting with a department event.<\/p>\n

Mary and a team of other MIS students entered into the Temple Analytics Challenge<\/a> in the fall and received 50 points for participating.\u00a0 She makes it to the finals and wins first prize!!\u00a0 This earns her another 100 points.\u00a0 Mary also attended a professional development event off campus and did get it preapproved beforehand.\u00a0 She earned 25 points for that.\u00a0 During the semester, Mary was invited to meet with an IBIT Executive in Residence<\/a> during the spring semester and received 25 points.\u00a0 She is now up to 1450 points at the end of her Senior year.<\/p>\n

\"Water<\/a>Mary wants to have some MIS schwag so she visits the PRO store<\/a> to redeem some of her reward points.\u00a0 She knows that redeeming her reward points will not affect her PRO points at all.\u00a0 She decides to get a water bottle and a MIS pin to wear at the events in the fall.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of her last semester, Mary has enough points to graduate but she wants that Grand Master Badge so she stays engaged.\u00a0 She is very proud of herself for being so involved in the department.\u00a0 She was a little worried that coming in as a transfer student would hinder her in earning points but it was really easy and fun!\u00a0 Mary is involved with AIS this year again.\u00a0 She is an active member, both in the spring and the fall semesters and is also an AIS committee member (115 points).\u00a0 She also attends the IT Career Fair (50 points) even though she has a full time offer from QVC.\u00a0 You never know when you will want to change jobs so Mary networks and makes her connections.\u00a0 She reported that full time job offer and received 100 points for submitting her offer letter.\u00a0 She also attends the IT Awards (25 points) again this year.<\/p>\n

\"Grand<\/a>This brings Mary up to 1740 and she has her Grand Master badge on her portfolio now! Since it is time to graduate, Mary wants to redeem the rest of her Rewards points so she visits the PRO store and cashes the points in for some cool stuff!<\/p>\n

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