Welcome to the Information Management Systems
with Mrs. Schadd's website
My name is Mrs. Kim Schadd. I have been the IMS instructor with the Huron Area Technical Center since August of 2004. Prior to the HATC, I taught for seven years at Davison High School and four years prior at Owen-Gage Junior/Senior High School. I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Business Education from Central Michigan University; a Master's Degree in Secondary Administration from Saginaw Valley State University; and industry certifications in Microsoft Word Core and Expert, Microsoft Excel Core and Expert, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Outlook. I am married to Don Schadd and have two wonderful daughters: Whitnee and Sara.
I hope this website will provide useful links to assist students in their success in this program. I also hope that this will provide information to parents to assist their young adults with their success as well.
I hope this website will provide useful links to assist students in their success in this program. I also hope that this will provide information to parents to assist their young adults with their success as well.
What is Information Management Systems?
IMS is based on the Michigan Career Pathway: Business, Management, and Technology Careers in this path are related to the business environment. These include entrepreneur, sales, computer/information systems, finance, accounting, personnel, and management.
Is it for you? Do you enjoy being a leader, organizing people, planning activities, and talking? Do you like to work with numbers or ideas? Do you enjoy carrying through with an idea and seeing the end product? Do you like things neat and orderly? Would you enjoy balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, holding an office in a club, or surfing the Internet? Then this may be the career path for you!
Career Categories
Is it for you? Do you enjoy being a leader, organizing people, planning activities, and talking? Do you like to work with numbers or ideas? Do you enjoy carrying through with an idea and seeing the end product? Do you like things neat and orderly? Would you enjoy balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, holding an office in a club, or surfing the Internet? Then this may be the career path for you!
Career Categories
- Accounting
- Office Administration
- Business Ownership
- Personnel
- Computer/Information Systems
- Sales
- Finance
- Administrative services managers
- Computer and information systems managers
- Construction managers
- Education administrators
- Engineering and natural sciences managers
- Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers
- Financial managers
- Food service managers
- Funeral directors
- Industrial production managers
- Lodging managers
- Medical and health services managers
- Property, real estate, and community association managers
- Purchasing managers, buyers, and purchasing agents
- Top executives
- Accountants and auditors
- Appraisers and assessors of real estate
- Budget analysts
- Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators
- Cost estimators
- Financial analysts and personal financial advisors
- Insurance underwriters
- Loan officers
- Management analysts
- Meeting and convention planners
- Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
- Bill and account collectors
- Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
- Gaming cage workers
- Payroll and timekeeping clerks
- Procurement clerks
- Tellers
- Brokerage clerks
- Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
- Customer service representatives
- File clerks
- Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
- Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
- Interviewers
- Library assistants, clerical
- Order clerks
- Receptionists and information clerks
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
- Cargo and freight agents
- Couriers and messengers
- Dispatchers
- Meter readers, utilities
- Postal Service workers
- Production, planning, and expediting clerks
- Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
- Stock clerks and order fillers
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
- Communications equipment operators
- Computer operators
- Data entry and information processing workers
- Desktop publishers
- Office and administrative support worker supervisors and managers
- Office clerks, general
- Secretaries and administrative assistants