BA (Hons) in Business
Upon the successful completion of any of the bachelor’s degrees available at EU, graduates have a wide array of career options and business opportunities available to them. In response to the growing demand for flexible and entrepreneurial business professionals, our programs are designed to foster the skills required for a successful career in the international business arena.
EU's graduates possess an international mindset, multicultural awareness and are innovative thinkers. This makes them ideal candidates for positions at large, multinational companies and dynamic, disruptive entrepreneurs ready to start their own businesses.
Career Options
Due to the broad spectrum of subjects studied and the solid grounding students acquire in fundamental business concepts, ideas, practices and methodologies in this program, career opportunities for students are numerous. Students who successfully complete this degree may be interested in the following job positions:
Project Manager
Project managers are generally responsible for coordinating staff and internal resources as well as managing project progress and adapting work as required. A project manager will be tasked with leading project planning sessions within a company. They need both technical know-how and first-hand knowledge of the tasks they assign to others to keep the project moving forward. Leadership and communication skills are required to be a successful project manager.
Sales Manager
Sales managers are tasked with selling a company’s products or services. They work within the commercial department of an organization, reporting to an area manager or sales director, and are the organization’s point of contact with clients. Sales managers set targets for clients, develop new business, create and implement sales plans, coordinate with other departments to ensure timely product delivery, negotiate prices and create and implement sales actions for sell-out.
To succeed as a sales manager, candidates should have good negotiation, interpersonal, communication and numerical skills
Employee Relations Manager
An employee relations manager is tasked with advising and training managers in any given business. They also develop further training as needed whilst representing the organization in contract negotiations, meetings, and negotiations with employee and labor organizations. They are also responsible for designing, planning, and implementing a company's employee relations programs, policies, and procedures. It is critical that they maintain good communication and positive relationships with employees in order to promote employee satisfaction. Outstanding interpersonal skills and an exceptional level of written and verbal communication are required to be a successful employee relations manager.
Business Development Manager
Business development managers will create and implement business plans to grow a company. They will look for opportunities in current markets by expanding to new sectors or will look for opportunities overseas. To succeed in international markets, knowledge of local culture, language, government regulations, competitors and markets are required. They will look to expand the current client portfolio and make new contacts. Competitor and market information must be collected and analyzed by professionals within this area.
Analytical, communication, research and numerical skills are needed for the position of business development manager.
Areas of Work
The BA (Hons) in Business equips students with an in-depth knowledge of fundamental business concepts, ideas and methodologies as well as a practical understanding of how companies operate. Upon successful completion of this degree program, graduates may wish to pursue careers in the following areas:
Project management is the professional field which consists of leading the work of a team in order to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time. The main challenge of project management is to achieve all of the outlined project goals within the given constraints. This professional field may be defined then as the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities with the aim of meeting the requirements of any given project.
Human resource management is the strategic approach to effectively managing company or organization’s personnel. The overall objective of this management is to assist their business gain a competitive advantage. Human resource management is designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's ultimate strategic objectives.
Business analysis is a discipline that involves identifying business needs and determining solutions to a variety of different business problems. Solutions, more often than not, include a software-systems development component, but may also consist of process improvements, organizational change or strategic planning and policy development in relation to the running of a business.
Essentially, sales, as a profession, is the process of running a business within a business. Typically, sales professionals focus on building and developing lasting and trusting relationships with business clients within a geographic territory, selling their company's products and services, with a particular focus on growing the sales revenue in order to achieve territory business objectives.
