Management

Management is a major that I've always only had a vague idea about. It seemed to me that if you had a job somewhere, you could move up in ranking until you've proven yourself worthy to be a manager. You shouldn't be hired as a manager within a company until you have taken the proper steps to deserve that position, right? Well after doing some research my suspicions were confirmed. When interviewing for internships at Buckle and Target I found out that through their programs they hire interns who are later hired as assistant managers and through experience are promoted to manager and then regional manager and so forth. As Professor Dunn mentioned, it often takes years of rotations to earn an upper management position.

I personally wouldn't want to take that route if I majored in management. I feel that any excellent minimum wage employee at these stores would have the same opportunity for upperward mobility as a McCombs graduate with a management degree. For this reason, I recommend going the consulting route with this degree. I think it would be much more interesting to go to a company and observe their organization to make suggestions for improvement.

How do you know if you are the right person for a management degree? If you are analytical, persuasive and attentive, you would probably be good at it! However, I feel that if you had any other major with these innate skills, you are likely to become a natural leader and be promoted to a management position in whatever job you have.