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re: Best Business Career Paths?
Posted on 6/12/13 at 11:38 am to gatorsimz
Posted on 6/12/13 at 11:38 am to gatorsimz
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I felt similar to you then I took Sales Management with professor La Barbera. Try to get into that class if you can, best class at UF.
I'll look into taking it for sure, thanks.
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What's your email?
jcold9@gmail.com
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Posted on 6/12/13 at 1:17 pm to AUtigerNOLA
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Which ones?
I find retail and consumer goods to be the most exciting. I love consumer technology and the retail experience is being redefined by it. The strategy of how to improve the customer experience is constantly shifting. Retail leads just about every industry in the need to try new business models given the extremely low switching cost. This just barely touches on the topic...let's toss in multi-channel or omnichannel and you get into another ball of wax that I find fascinating.
Posted on 6/12/13 at 2:46 pm to JCGator
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JCGator
I'll send you some information.
Posted on 6/12/13 at 9:27 pm to JCGator
Take it from someone with a business degree and an MBA, make yourself marketable. Learn marketable skills.
I worked through college and was successful managing a restaurant while going to school full time. That does nothing for you unless you want to stay in the restaurant industry. Once I graduated I took a job at an insurance agency and quickly rose to an acct manager. I hated it despite doing well financially, but unfortunately the skills I had - sales, marketing, customer service - are not very marketable outside of sales.
It took a while to find a job with no real marketable skills. I finally found where I want to be but I'm starting back at the bottom and lost some valuable years for career development.
The jist of my advice is to pick an area and start working on refining skills related to that career area in college. Take the career-building job in college or right out if it as opposed to the one with higher pay. It'll pay off in the long run.
I worked through college and was successful managing a restaurant while going to school full time. That does nothing for you unless you want to stay in the restaurant industry. Once I graduated I took a job at an insurance agency and quickly rose to an acct manager. I hated it despite doing well financially, but unfortunately the skills I had - sales, marketing, customer service - are not very marketable outside of sales.
It took a while to find a job with no real marketable skills. I finally found where I want to be but I'm starting back at the bottom and lost some valuable years for career development.
The jist of my advice is to pick an area and start working on refining skills related to that career area in college. Take the career-building job in college or right out if it as opposed to the one with higher pay. It'll pay off in the long run.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 8:18 am to Slickback
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Take it from someone with a business degree and an MBA, make yourself marketable. Learn marketable skills.
I worked through college and was successful managing a restaurant while going to school full time. That does nothing for you unless you want to stay in the restaurant industry. Once I graduated I took a job at an insurance agency and quickly rose to an acct manager. I hated it despite doing well financially, but unfortunately the skills I had - sales, marketing, customer service - are not very marketable outside of sales.
It took a while to find a job with no real marketable skills. I finally found where I want to be but I'm starting back at the bottom and lost some valuable years for career development.
The jist of my advice is to pick an area and start working on refining skills related to that career area in college. Take the career-building job in college or right out if it as opposed to the one with higher pay. It'll pay off in the long run.
I think there are some good tidbits in here. I can speak from personal experience saying that I am alright at this stage in my career being paid slightly less if it means I have the best development opportunities. Exposure to the right tasks with the right people and learning material that is of interest to you is more important at the early stages of your career.
This post was edited on 6/13/13 at 8:19 am
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