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
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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
Truly Essential Skills
26/02/2013 – 4:22 pm
I am terrible with numbers. What possible other reason could there be for the decision I made to take 20 hours per week of class this summer while working another 35 hours? But, in all seriousness, I am a bleeding-heart liberal arts major who always figured I could save the world without ever managing a budget. My assumption was extraordinarily incorrect. I have been faced with the challenge of setting and sticking to a budget several times, and each time I have found the task incredibly daunting. Enter UNC Business Essentials. Business Essentials offered me education in a skill set that I never would have chosen to study as part of my four year plan to see the world, learn Read More
Beef Up Your Resume
19/02/2013 – 4:19 pm
The thought of graduating college and having to become part of the real world is terrifying for most students. On top of the worries about navigating life on our own, my generation is faced with another stressor—how are we going to get a job? We are constantly bombarded with horror stories of college graduates who were forced to move back in with their parents and work at fast food restaurants just to make ends meet. I always thought a college degree was a “golden ticket” of sorts that guaranteed a well-paid job and an independent lifestyle upon graduation. But in this economy, and with so many people attending college, a bachelor’s degree isn’t as powerful as it once was. I Read More
Business Essentials Helps You Interpret the Word in a New Way
12/02/2013 – 4:16 pm
UNC Business Essentials can be described in many ways on paper, but for me it is more than a new line on my resume, it has changed the way I learn and interact in the business world. UBE has given me a new sense of confidence in my everyday interactions. I now feel comfortable discussing marketing strategy and balance sheets in detail, something I would have struggled through before UBE. The course is structured to give students the ability to learn and practice. After studying the vocabulary and concepts, the student is given the chance to write about them in the context of a real world situation. I really loved this because it forced me to take my interpretation to Read More
Breaking the Mold with Business Essentials
29/01/2013 – 3:55 pm
A young college student has a number of different options when choosing a potential major to focus their studies on for four years. Although there is no wrong choice per say, there are undoubtedly some majors that are more practical than others. It seems as though after making that decision on a major, you are locked into a particular skill set, and if you happen to choose something incompatible with the job world, you are out of luck. This is where UNC Business Essentials comes into play, breaking that mold. Business Essentials provided me with concrete ways to tangibly add to my skill set and make me a more marketable job applicant. Many students who have not had formal business Read More
Staying Engaged, One Lesson at a Time
18/09/2012 – 10:30 am
Read a few pages worth of notes, do some pointless practice problems, and take a short test you are nowhere near prepared for – these are frequently the steps one goes through when completing an online course. However, solely doing these things is rarely going to make a student care about the material or even really learn it; instead, the result is typically ambivalence and boredom. So I was a bit hesitant about UNC Business Essentials. As a computer-based program, I worried that I would quickly lose interest and feel distanced from the information. I soon learned, though, that I could not have been more wrong, as UNC Business Essentials uses a mixture of teaching approaches and relevant, real-life examples Read More
Direct Application of Important Business Topics
11/09/2012 – 10:23 am
I have never learned something that had so much real-world application as what I have learned from UNC Business Essentials. There have been many times at employer information sessions, reading articles in the Wall Street Journal, or sitting down in interviews where I was able to follow along and feel I had a grasp on important business concepts. For example, I recently went to a Pengo Loans information session – a local start-up that provides loans to medium-sized enterprises in Africa. While I was surrounded by seasoned business professionals who talked about return on investments and equity, I was still able to understand the message Pengo Loans had to offer. I have also interviewed for several marketing companies. As a Read More
Extra Education Translates to Academic Dedication in Job Applications
04/09/2012 – 10:19 am
As a senior with less than a month till graduation, the achievement of a UNC Business Essentials certificatenot only helps to enhance my bachelor’s degree from a prestigious university, but also, shows my academic dedication and my desire to attain professional success in the business world. Before taking the UNC Business Essentials course, I had no intention of participating in business field and did not think that I would eventually want to pursue higher education in the field of accounting. Through my studies within the UNC Business Essentials program, I discovered my growing interest in accounting and my commitment to pursue further education in business. The opportunity to serve as an ambassador of the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business Essentials Program has Read More