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I just started at a community college and i want to major in Business Administration. I am studying liberal arts. Would this be a good decision the way this economy is at the moment? I heard that you will not be successful in the Business world if you do not attend an IVY League school. My grades are not the best 3.0 grade average. Do you think if my gpa gets to a 3.5 - 3.8 i can get into NYU, Cornelle, Penn State, or Columbia? if i dont get into any IVY league school for business can i still be successful. I want to become a financial advisor. I live in New York. Also what is the starting salary like with a bachelor's degree in buss admin?DONT SAY IT VARIES! I want to hear from recent college grads or people that have been in the Business world. What is the starting salary and what career options are available? Is there Job security or is it difficult to find a stable job. JOB SECURITY is very important to me. Please serious answers ONLY. Thank You

To become a financial advisor, perhaps a degree in Finance would be a better option. The certification exam for the Chartered Financial Advisor is very difficult. You'll need experience and a lot of study to pass. Becoming a financial advisor requires passing the Series 7 exam offered by FINRA and meeting continuing education requirements. The job has involved buying and selling securities (such as stocks and bonds) on behalf of clients. At this point in time, with so many stock brokers out of work, there may be more job seekers than jobs.

As a success consultant (a professional coach), a business owner, and a former director at a national charity, I can tell you that a degree in Business Administration will allow you to pursue a wide variety of entry level white collar jobs in a number of sectors including sales and management (usually management trainee). It is difficult to give you one starting salary as offers will depend on where you live, the industry the company is in, the compensation package, any training programs you have to pass before getting the "regular" job and any special skills or experiences you bring to the job (internships, coops, work experience). It really does vary.

A recent post on jobweb.com has starting salary ranges for Business Administration/Management at $37,000 - $55,000. This information is not dated, so the effect of the recent economic downturn is unknown.

As for job security, business administration is a fairly broad field so chances are that there are more opportunities as opposed to narrower fields like accounting. These days, the only job security is the ability to get another job. You have to always keep learning because you'll never know when you company will merge or get bought or reorganize. You have to constantly learn and improve your "employability". Some people I know have been devoted to their company for 5 or more years and have recently been laid off because the company bought another company and is closing their office to consolidate operations at a new site.

You do not need to go to an Ivy League school to be successful. A recent study of people who could have gone to an ivy league school and chose not to versus those who did go show no statistical difference in their career trajectories. A degree gets you in the door, but your work moves you up the ladder. Your success depends on you and to the lucky breaks and opportunities you take advantage of along the way

Career options for business administration are wide and varied. Lots of companies would hire a new graduate and train them in a specific area, with the idea that this person could go on to other areas of the company. My first job after I graduated with a degree in economics was as a management trainee at a finance company with the idea that after my training period I could move into branch management. The job after that (I didn't feel well-matched with the trainee job) was in a production control department managing the forecasting system.

You would have to check with the schools you are interested in to see what their transfer student requirements are.

Good luck with your career decisions.

2009-11-30 13:44:55 by pretty caramel girl

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James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch both married models. James has just married his second one. Why would two men who are successful in the corporate world not date one of the many Australian women who are highly successful in business? surely they'd be more compatible on an intellectual and life experience level? There are plenty of lawyers, bankers and financial advisers around - good-looking, really smart and savvy businesswomen in Australia yet he marries a model who's 10 years younger. Sarah Murdoch didn't even pass her Year 12 exams. Why are guys like this?
So tragedy, are you saying that intellectual women are ugly?
Why is a woman who uses her brain devalued or you assume that she's a beast?

The men have all the money they need, they don't need a wife that has a brain or has any opinion. They need a wife to be on their arm and look good. That's it, the women are young and look good in pictures. Who needs to pass 12 year exams when your husband is a billionaire? They want a trophy wife.

2007-06-22 17:18:01 by Nat R

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OK, this questions is open to all UK.

Why as a nation are we so sceptical towards network marketing when most other areas of the world embrace it as well as being highly successful with it as a concept.

You offer someone a legitimate opportunity to make an income for themselves and as soon as you put a network marketing business opportunity in front of them they switch off or become instant financial advisers.

Do we have such a negative attitude or just a non-desire to open up to new concepts.

It is worth noting that thousands of people in the UK embrace the concept but compared to 40 million or so working age residents this is nothing.

So if the offer is 'Have a look at the information on my website below and discover a legitimate way to beat the current credit crunch'.

1. Why would you not want to find out more.
2. If you don't understand the info why would you not ask.

What is your opinion of the information below.

http://www.moneyme.co.uk
Interesting Steve, the practice of a 'Pyramid Scheme' has been illegal in the UK since 1973 but is a common suggestion. Ask most individuals what this is and they have no idea, it's just a term they know. It sounds like you have had a negative personal experience, usually from lack of support or advice, which I feel is always unfortunate.


Word of mouth, as per the above I totally agree, it can become apparent how word of mouth can draw skepticism, a negative experience passed on to another etc, etc.

mlmwealthcoach, I guess in the UK even requesting or signing up to the info on your website or mine, for example, would raise suspicion. I feel the UK is in between the word of mouth approach, and not trusting enough to request info from websites, your and mine alike, however genuine they may be.

I fear we are still in a word of mouth/sceptical stage in our evolution.

http://www.moneyme.co.uk

Mainly because it tends to be (yet) another name for 'Pyramid Scheme' ... and, in order to make money, you have to 'suck in' all your friends and relatives ..

Once you have helped the con-merchants 'up line' to take advantage of everyone you know, us Brits find it difficult to look them in the eye again ..

2008-04-28 13:11:21 by Douglas

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Obama has been encouraging his supporters to chant and get caught up in hope... hope for a perfect world with peace and everybody holding hands. When will you be realistic and consider the fact that what he is offering isn't possible... and the socialistic ideals he favors will only bring downfall to our powerful and successful country? Perhaps a short blip of euphoria and faux concern... but then reality hits.
A gov't big enough to help you is a govt big enough to hurt you.

By Tim Reid, The Times of London

Barack Obama's senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week's election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harboring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.

The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of "hope" and "change" are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.

One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, "so there's not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair."

The aide said that Obama himself was the first to realize that expectations risked being inflated.

In an interview with a Colorado radio station, Obama appeared to be engaged already in expectation lowering. Asked about his goals for the first hundred days, he said he would need more time to tackle such big and costly issues as health care reform, global warming and Iraq.
We don't have checks and balances if the Democrats control the congress and White House...

I expect people being hacked to death with machetes like in Kenya, win or lose.

Obama wants to rule a 3rd World Socialist Dictatorship, by destroying the 1st World beacon of hope.

2008-10-31 07:13:29 by amber 18