Effective Career Planning from Day One

Feedback on a recent anonymous evaluation for the Suffolk MBA required course, Effective Career Planning, revealed the following: 

“With 10 years work experience, I valued the opportunity to sit back and analyze where I am going with this degree and with my career. The course lives up to its name!”

Unique to the Suffolk MBA Online, this 1-credit introductory course focuses every student on their career goals from day one, regardless of how long they’ve been in the work force.

What will you do in this course?

Before you enter the virtual classroom for this course you will

• Complete an online self-assessment tool used by top-level firms from across the country
• It measures your business competencies, networking savvy, emotional intelligence, and influence power
• Complete a SPOT analysis of yourself as a professional (strengths, potential, opportunities, and threats)

You will

• Read, discuss, analyze and define action points regarding critical management and leadership “stories”, challenges, and innovative proposals
• Write a Career Development Plan to identify personal goals for your Suffolk MBA experience and beyond

How will you benefit from this course?

Whether you have two or twenty years of work experience, Effective Career Planning taken as a first course in the Suffolk MBA Online, forces you to assess your professional skills and goals, and make a conscious plan to relate every aspect of your MBA to your career goals.

Why is this course important?

You are, after all, earning an MBA degree. Your reasons for earning an MBA may be different from other individuals’ in your chat sessions and virtual teams, but you all have the same desired outcome – professional success. Effective Career Planning as an introductory course stresses Suffolk’s commitment to be Career Focused from Day One – precisely to insure that you are career focused from day one as you invest your time and money in a graduate degree.