Business Majors are required to have an arsenal of people skills to be successful because of the rising popularity of the major. Universities and Colleges around the nation have noticed this trend, and have started to emphasize these majors more. These degrees rely on what the business does and how it operates. The degree also brings in a teamwork aspect of the job world, you’re not necessarily held to have a business job with a business major, you may branch out and do other sorts of jobs. Retail stores and restaurants are always looking for a leader/team oriented person to add to their arsenal.  There are multiple choices of courses in the major. Every choice has a certain emphasis and important difference than the other. Some courses will lean more towards stores and travel, while others are going to have an emphasis on the international spectrum of business.

As the article by The Guardian says, “The common threads of any business degree, however, tend to be looking at finance, marketing and human resource management.” So in any of the business jobs you take in the world, you’re almost guaranteed one of those three focuses stated by The Guardian. The business major has a lot of math orientated jobs as well, with all the financing needed to be done in a business; math should be of high priority! Numbers will be floating around your job no matter what job you take in business, so be prepared.

 By the time of graduation, all of those skills definitely need to be at their best. Whether it’s financing, marketing, or management, those skills are very relevant in many different ways in multiple different jobs! As a business major, you shouldn’t be afraid of standing up in front of the class to present your ideas or argue your points with other students to make sure they know your point of view. With group work a key part of many courses, your team work ethic will be at a very high caliber, you should have a key understanding of how to make sure you can comprehend all your team members’ thoughts and be able to compile them into one goal. You should also have an understanding of the ethical implications of business operations. If retail is your main focus of study, you should be able to make fair trade and price negotiation a key part of your arsenal of skills. A key part of managing others is the ability to relate to them and understand their needs, all skills you should be developing during your degree.

The downside of the uprising of students in the business major is that it cause a major change in competition in the field. In essence, the job market for business students will slowly get smaller and smaller because of the jobs being taken by previously graduated business majors. And because it's not as specialist a field as architecture or medicine, you’ll have the chance to have competition with other students who were in other fields of study that decided to choose business in their last year of college. That said, the experience you earned and all the skills you’ve gained from being a business major will help place you in a nice secure job in the City or firm somewhere in the world. These graduate schemes should give you a good general grounding in business and the chance to focus on a particular area, such as human resources, or finance or marketing.

What makes a good business major? Any business degree will involve working with numbers and stats You should also have the ability to see the big picture when it comes to making a project or long term goal happen, being considerate of the goals of the group, considering the raw materials or rough data, and developing plans to move projects forward. As a business major, you should have the ability to communicate with written and verbal information, be excellent at team work, and work well under sometimes sustained pressure.

 http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/may/01/universityguide.businessandmanagementstudieseducationsubject