Careers

We define information management as a people-centred approach to discovering, organizing, analyzing, representing, and accessing data, information, and knowledge. Effective IM gets the right information to the right people at the right time. 

Information managers are dynamic, socially responsible, innovative professionals skilled in the management of information and technology, who provide leadership and vision in a knowledge-based society. They advocate for the values-based management of knowledge and information, and advance the discipline of Information Management by pursuing creative multidisciplinary research.

Our students go on to careers in libraries and archives* and information management** in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Read our alumni profiles to find out how our alumni are making the MI degree work for them. Also, see the chart below for job titles held by MI graduates.