Weather it’s a mom-and-pop shop that imports coffee beans from Columbia or a conglomerate with a complex, international supply chain, all businesses have a global component. As a result, in this world of interconnected commerce, studying global business management can give you a leg up in any enterprise. There are countless opportunities for recent graduates. To help you think and plan for your future career, consider some of these entry-level positions.
Communications Officer
While attending business college or university, many students find that they enjoy writing assignments and creating content, meaning that they might be a perfect fit as a communications officer. Communications officer are tasked with writing emails, marketing material, social media captions, digital newsletters, posters, advertisements, brochures, and more. Even though this job involves creativity, it can also involve tight deadlines, so it is important that communications officers learn to churn out material, even if they do not feel creatively inspired to do so.
Investment Analyst
This job is all about researching, report writing, and presentations. Investment analysts research markets to provide useful insight to stockbrokers, investment banks, large corporations, hedge funds, life assurance companies, and more. The markets being researched could include real-estate, bonds, stocks, index funds etc. Apart from digging into financial data, investment analysts need to be able to analyze legal information, such as policies, to build informed investment recommendations for their employers.
Recruitment Specialist
A vital part of any company’s human resources department, recruitment specialists are responsible for all aspects of the hiring process. Many people assume this means only conducting job interviews, but there is much more to this career than that. Recruitment Specialists need to create hiring plans in accordance with a company’s structural changes, growth prospects, and changing needs. Once these plans have been created, they may, with the help of a manager, write and design job advertisements and screen resumes. They may also have to find ways to measure the experience of candidates and employees, perhaps through surveys, which they will also have to write.
Marketing Coordinator
This career has two aspects, one that involves the production of external marketing material, and another than entails the analysis and summarization of internal sales data. The first involves the strategic implementation of marketing and advertising campaigns, looking at the big picture of customer engagement, and coordinating designers, writers, and artists to produce material. The second aspect of the job entails looking at past sales data and marketing campaigns to make forecasts about future growth and plan accordingly. It might also involve managing a marketing budget, so marketing coordinators have to be able to quickly assess the best use of resources.
Underwriter
Underwriters typically work in insurance agencies, where they examine applications for insurance loans and decide who can be covered by insurance and who cannot. As expected, this involves a lot of reading and analysis. Not only do underwriters have to have a thorough understanding of insurance policy but also an ability to assess an individual’s insurance eligibility through analysis of their personal background. An underwriter must also have a strong ground in mathematics and statistics to conduct sound risk assessment.
