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Business Career & Job Guide

A career in business can take you in many different directions. All businesses need certain types of employees to run smoothly.

Management coordinates big decisions and keeps the company moving in a profitable direction. Salespeople, marketing and advertising agents take the product to the intended audience. Accountants, tax specialists, and financial managers deal with corporate finances and personal investments. Business lawyers and public relations specialists project the right image, and a myriad other specialties within business management and operations make the business efficient and profitable.

Which career will you pursue?

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Accountant
Accounting is one of the most important but misunderstood professions in today's job market. Accountants provide trusted, relevant information to management, investors, creditors, government, and sometimes the general public.

Business Law
There are basically two types of business lawyers: those who handle lawsuits, called business litigators, and those who handle contracts and corporate matters, called transactional lawyers.

Business Manager
Learn how to be a boss – run a successful, competitive company, deal with clients and employees, and be profitable and please shareholders.

Criminal Justice Administration
Criminal justice includes a variety of jobs and occupations related to justice administration, law enforcement, and corrections. A degree in criminal justice administration prepares you for positions of responsibility and leadership within the various criminal justice professions.

Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs need all the skills of a business manager, including coursework in management principles, finances, taxes, marketing, organization, and more.

Financial Analyst
Financial analysts, also known as investment analysts or securities analysts, assess the financial performance of a company or industry and make recommendations to investment banks and other investors.

Health Care Manager
Health care managers combine health care and business concepts. Professionals in the field need to understand the treatment of disease and health maintenance as well as how to run a successful business.

Hospitality Manager
Work as a hospitality manager in hotels, resorts, convention centers, casinos, cruise ships, and restaurants. Hospitality managers combine sharp business skills with the ability to communicate with customers.

Human Resources Manager
Human resource management covers a wide variety of tasks and functions within an organization, including: recruiting and hiring, employee compensation and benefits, corporate policy, employee assistance, and training.

International Business Careers
In an increasingly connected world, more and more businesses are going global. They need managers who understand how business is conducted in other countries, and who can help shape and implement a firm's global strategy.

Labor Relations Manager
Labor relations managers and industrial relations directors form and implement a company's labor policy, which affects union and non-union labor alike.

Marketing Manager
Marketing managers play a key role in any business -- developing a detailed marketing strategy to help maximize profits and increase customer return and loyalty.

Merchandising and Retail Manager
The exchange of goods and services is perhaps the oldest form of business known to humankind. Merchandising and retail managers are on the front lines of marketing and selling products to consumers.

Non-Profit Administration
Non-profit administrators are focused on bringing management and business skills to non-profit organizations like charities, associations, foundations, and other organizations.

Project Manager
If you've ever planned, managed, and completed a project for school or home, you have done project management, though you may not have called it that. Project management refers to the entire planning, execution and evaluation of a particular project.

Public Administration and Management
Civil service today is more than meets the eye -- much of public policy administration has to do with coming up with innovative ways to meet ever-changing public needs.

Already graduated and ready for that first post-grad job? Visit the external links below for more information on business careers, networking, and job searching advice.

Monster Career Advice

A complete career resource featuring information on interviewing, salary and benefits, career development, and much more.

Books

Career Options for MBAs - Real world advice from industry veterans on investment banking, consulting, Global 500 Companies, entrepreneurship and choosing the right career

Discovering Your Career in Business - Specific advice on choosing the perfect business career

The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Finance - Details trends in finance, insights on career self-assessment, industry career opportunities, and guidance on recruiting

The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in the Nonprofit Sector - Career histories of 34 Harvard Business School alums who have carved out successful and personally-rewarding lives in the nonprofit sector

The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job - Includes detailed strategies for approaching the job market

Career Development

Careers in Business - Includes business career areas such as jobs, salaries, interviews and entry requirements; be sure to check out the list of job banks at the bottom!

Career Guides

Google: Business Careers - Google's career resource directory

Steps to Career/Life Planning Success - Career e-manual from the University of Waterloo

Wall Street Journal Career Page - An excellent collection of articles, job listings, and national and global economies, and also includes an on-line career tool kit

Company Research

BizWeb - A guide to more than 40,000 companies, searchable by over 200 categories

Business Researcher's Interests - Comprehensive library of business, management and technology resources

Job Listings - General

MonsterTrak.com - Jobs for new graduates

Monster.com - Listings of current job openings in a variety of business-related fields

 

MBA Global Net - Resources for MBA grads looking for employment

MBAJobs.net - International service for MBA students & graduates, employers & recruiters, and business schools

Job Outlook

Occupational Outlook Handbook - Excellent resource from the Bureau of Labor Statistics with hundreds of specific jobs, including work descriptions, job outlook, salary expectations and more

US Census Bureau - Includes business and job data from the most recent census

Job Search

Job Seekers Guide to Wall Street Recruiters - Profiles over 1,600 executive search firms that concentrate on the financial services sector

The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job - A program for a reference base, résumés and cover letters, locating openings, handling interviews, and negotiating offers

Salary Negotiation - A dozen salary questions to see what you know (or what you don't know) about negotiating your salary

Salary Negotiation Strategies - Links and books on the topic

The Riley Guide - An excellent collection of links with salary surveys from around the world for specific industries, positions and locations

Resources

Consortium for Graduate Study in Management - A university alliance working to facilitate the entry of minorities into managerial positions in business

Job Search Assistance - Articles and links from About.com