Week 7 - Practice Question 6: Career Development/Life Plan

Career Development/Life Plan
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INTRODUCTION
The purpose of course programs in any learning institution is to enable students to have a comprehensive and balanced curriculum of interrelated courses that are relevant to the program. Through these courses, a graduate student can expedite and arouse learning in a zealous way. The problem comes in when the outline of the courses are not fully implemented in the learning process and when the order of thinking is not actualized entirely. It is quite clear that the learning process for most programs like business and marketing is based on theoretical perspective before it can be applied physically. It is for this reason that students are tested to evoke, twig and apply specific concepts, issues, and theories (Harrison, 2012). It is important that professional programs such as business and marketing prepare students to become professional practitioners in the various fields there are pursuing. In most cases, students in internships and workplaces find it difficult making a transition from theory to practice with effectiveness and confidence. In most cases, this failure results from failure of most courses to integrate theory and practice in a manner that is relevant and meaningful to students. The fact that most course programs are physical rather than a practical mean that the students have to work a way to make their degree relevant in their current and future career plans. This paper offers a career development analysis based on business and marketing course program.
In the program of business and marketing, the coursework majorly focuses on marketing management through physical training in marketing and sales. It prepares graduates for current and future career plans. The first thing that the coursework prepares students is by equipping them with necessary skills that enable them to handle a multiplicity of entry-level careers that are related to business and marketing. The four-year program is meant to make one ready to tackle all issues encountered in the field of sales and marketing management. The coursework in business and marketing has concepts such as entrepreneurship, finance, sales strategies, ethical and legal issues in marketing, leadership and teamwork, economics and product development. These concepts furnish students with skills and knowledge relevant to marketing and management of sales. The coursework of this program is designed to respond to the needs of the industry, therefore producing graduates that are pertinent to the industry. My current career plan is to be the best marketing and sales manager. The fact that my coursework prepares students to handle entry level careers, I believe it will be vital in enabling me to become the best sales manager. My future career plan is to establish a sales & marketing consulting firm. Am confident of accomplishing my dream career due to the skills that I have acquired through my coursework in business and marketing programs such as business management, market strategy, and finance among many others. My current career plan will enable me to become a sale manager, a position that I will use as a stepping stone towards establishing my sales& marketing consulting ...