Business and Communications Management
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Descriptive Career Information
Careers in Business
This job bank includes jobs in finance and descriptions of the various fields as well as links to further resources.
http://careers-in-business.jobsinthemoney.com/index.php
Careers in Consulting
Skidmore University has compiled these links useful to students considering consulting as a career with descriptions of the profession, job banks, associations, and first hand accounts.
http://www.skidmore.edu/administration/career/consulting.htm
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Management and business and financial operations occupations
The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides career descriptions and outlook for a large number of careers in the management, business, and financial services sectors, such as Top Executives, Administrative Services Managers, and Human Resources, Training, and Labor Relations Managers and Specialists.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco1001.htm
Wall Street Journal: Career Journal
Career resources from the Wall Street Journal.
http://www.careerjournal.com/
Job Banks and Searching Advice
Boston Globe Job Database
Searchable by location, job title, keyword, etc., the Boston Globe's Job Bank.
http://bostonworks.boston.com/
Careers in Business
This job bank includes jobs in finance, accounting and management, and provides brief descriptions of the various fields as well as links to further resources.
http://careers-in-business.jobsinthemoney.com/index.php/
Executive Jobs
National executive and management job bank.
http://www.nationjob.com/management/
IABC Career Center
The International Association of Business Communicators offers a job bank and a résumé posting board.
http://jobs.iabc.com/home/index.cfm
Investmentbankingjobs.com
National job bank listing jobs in investment banking and investment management.
http://www.investmentbankingjobs.com/
Monster Management
The Monster Board's management section specializes in management jobs as well as resources for those interested in management careers.
http://management.monster.com/
Yankee Chapter of IABC
New England centered chapter of the International Assocation of Business Communicators, includes job bank.
http://www.yankeeiabc.org/
Associations
American Management Association (AMA)
http://www.amanet.org/index.htm
Institute of Certified Professional Managers (ICPM)
http://www.icpm.biz/
International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR)
http://www.ipma-hr.org/
Financial Executives International (FEI)
http://www.financialexecutives.org
Financial Management Association International (FMA)
http://www.fma.org/
The Forté Foundation
The Forté Foundation brings together business schools, companies, and non profit organizations committed to engaging and promoting women in the world of business. The site has information on MBA programs, stories or women who are part of the business world, up coming events, and a variety of scholarship benefits the foundation offers.
http://www.fortefoundation.org
National Management Association (NMA)
http://www.nma1.org/
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
http://www.shrm.org/
Graduate School Information
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
Information on the GMAT from the Graduate Management Admissions Council. Why to take it, how and when to take it, and studying tips.
http://www.mba.com/mba/TaketheGMAT
MassCIS
The Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS) is available to Massachusetts residents and includes an Education & Training section. Click on "Graduate School Sort" to create a list of schools matching your preferences. From the Mass. Division of Career Services (DCS).
http://masscis.intocareers.org/
Peterson's Online Educational Resources
Search graduate programs by keyword, subject area, location, etc.
http://www.petersons.com/Default.asp?ShowTab=gr
Market Trends
National Center for Education Statistics
Article from Education Statistics Quarterly, vol.3, issue 1, 2001, 'From Bachelor's Degree to Work: Major Field of Study and Employment Outcomes of 1992-93 Bachelor's Degree Recipients Who Did Not Enroll in Graduate Education by 1997'. Includes stats on employment status, full-time salaries, job benefits, and job satisfaction for Business and Communications degree recipients.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/vol_3/3_1/q5_2.asp
"Brain Drain at the B-Schools; Why they're scrambling to find qualified faculty"
By Jennifer Merritt in New York. Business Week, March 5, 2001, Iss 3722, pg 106. Merritt discusses the slow growth in the number of business-oriented PhDs compared to other fields and the subsequent difficulty of finding business school professors.
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"Observations on business education"
An article from Lyman W Porter in Selections, Spring/Summer 2000, Vol 16, Iss 2, pg 29. Discusses the implications that the new economy is making on business schools and suggests that the casual practices, procedures and assumptions about what educators should be doing will likely change in the next couple of decades.
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"THE TROUBLE WITH MBAs"
Anne Fisher writes this for Fortune; 4/30/2007, Vol. 155 Issue 8, p49-50. She says that surveys of corporate recruiters reveal that the ability to speak and write clearly and persuasively is the most sought after skill.
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