While I love double majoring in advertising and political science, I felt that my ability to understand basic business concepts could be better. Therefore, in an effort to hone my business and communication skills, I decided to take UNC Business Essentials. After researching the course, I felt it would do the best job in providing me with a better understanding of business practices and how those principles affect all aspects of my life. I liked how the program offered complete flexibility, which was a big requirement for me as I already had a full course load during the school year and wanted to take it over the course of my summer. In addition, I had taken some Intro to Marketing and Economics Read More
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Flexible Program About The Business Basics
14/05/2013 – 3:18 pm
The UNC Business Essentials program is a comprehensive certificate program aimed at preparing non-business majors for a world in which every graduate needs to understand the basics of business. Created by the capable educators of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the certificate program gave me an edge and helped me feel more prepared and confident about my future, especially in this rocky economic atmosphere. Business Essentials covers an introductory overview to the business sphere, accounting, economics, marketing, business operations, and targeted writing skills. I learned to create a balance sheet, to organize a supply chain, to write a proper memo, and to manage inventory, among many other skills. And as a very busy college student, I greatly appreciated the flexibility of Read More
How Business Essentials Will Help Me In The Workplace
07/05/2013 – 7:06 pm
So I’ve reached that age. It’s time to start applying for my first real internship in the big world. I’ve started to check Careerolina regularly and brushing up on my resume. It’s the brushing up on my resume part that has forced me to be able to articulate how the UNC Business Essentials Program will help me in an office. Here’s a couple things I’ve thought of: I can write a really good email or memo. I know – that doesn’t seem like that much of a selling point now, but in the world of business, effective communication is key. Having an entire section devoted to business communication puts me ahead of the game. I can think with the left Read More
Knowledge That Can Be Used Immediately
30/04/2013 – 3:11 pm
I was working on the Business Essentials program between working full-time at Ogilvy, a public relations firm, exploring Washington, D.C., and getting ready for my senior year at Carolina. I was about halfway through my internship when I finished the module on financial accounting – the module I thought was the most difficult, by the way. I was going through each of the narrated lectures and interactive activities more than once trying to wrap my head around it, and it was finally sinking in. The next day, the interns at Ogilvy were scheduled to go to lunch with Chris Graves, the CEO of Ogilvy Worldwide, who happened to be stationed in our office. As we were eating, someone asked a Read More
From Direction To Versatility
23/04/2013 – 3:50 pm
I have had a unique academic path in the sense that I have struggled with discovering where my passions lie and how to direct those passions into a major and eventually a career. I viewed the UNC Business Essentials (UBE) program as a way to find direction with my studies. I enrolled at the end of my semester abroad in Spain which was a perfect time because the online modules flexibly fit into my schedule. Throughout the course, I appreciated the real-world applications that the program constantly offered to me. The six different modules gave a very great overview of the aspects of business and instilled a new confidence in me to be able to understand conversations and media within Read More
A Lesson in Transitions
16/04/2013 – 6:43 pm
Coming back to Carolina after nine months of being away from the University, interning with Amnesty International in Washington D.C. through the Burch Washington Seminar program during the spring and traveling throughout Asia while studying Chinese Foreign Policy in Hong Kong, was a transition for certain. However, the Business Essentials program, an online initiative created by Kenan-Flagler to give non-business major undergrads an opportunity to gain a topical grasp on a plethora of business issues, was a wonderful transition between the two. With an emphasis on a tangible skill set, the flexibility of the UBE program allowed me to become an ambassador and complete the program, despite intermittent Internet access and the epitome of an erratic schedule. In return, when Read More
Pursue Your Passion But Gain Business Knowledge, Too
09/04/2013 – 2:21 pm
UNC Business Essentials is probably the best option for someone who is not a business major or minor. As an undergraduate, there are countless opportunities available at your fingertips, and at times it’s overwhelming to weigh what you should do against what you want to do. Maybe you know that you need business knowledge, but your passion is in American history or music or geology. This is where UNC Business Essentials excels. This program allows you to pursue the major you’re passionate about while still obtaining the business knowledge that is all but required to succeed in today’s job market. As a Communication Studies and Psychology double major, I had no idea how a business worked. My freshman year I Read More
Gain an Advantage Over Others
02/04/2013 – 2:15 pm
The Kenan-Flagler Business Essentials program is a unique opportunity to acquire invaluable knowledge about the business world and simultaneously build one’s resume. The UNC Business Essentials (UBE) program is a comprehensive online course that allows one to take six different modules on varying aspects of the professional world while moving at a pace best suited to the individual. The benefits of such a program for a young college student are numerous. The job market is an ever changing dynamic, and a concrete understanding of business principles is a necessity to warrant real value to future employers. The UBE program gives students, who previously had little to no business knowledge, the chance to foster business knowledge and skills which can directly Read More
Staying Ahead of the Competition
26/03/2013 – 2:05 pm
As a Public Health, Health Policy and Management major, I knew that knowledge in business would be relevant in whatever career field I choose to undertake. UNC Business Essentials is a program that allows you to go at your own pace while having the end goal in mind: attaining a business certificate from a nationally renowned business school and being able to compete with other qualified students. Under the UBE program, I took courses on business writing and communication, economics, and management, among others. Because everything is online, I set my own schedule as well as my own pace, which was very important with such a busy summer. Just because it is online, however, doesn’t mean I was left to Read More
Business Essentials Sets You Above the Rest
19/03/2013 – 1:46 pm
I decided to take the UNC Business Essentials program this summer because I knew that it would improve my knowledge about the business world, while also looking great on my resume. As an environmental science major, I often feel that I do not receive much information about business and economics unless it is to teach me about how much a company is polluting during their production process, or how profit driven marketing is causing an overconsumption crisis. My ultimate goal for my career is to be able to bring both of these disciplines together in my own sustainability consulting firm, but in order to do that I needed to acquire some quality business knowledge. UNC Business Essentials was the perfect Read More