Business Management and Administration careers use your organizational and leadership skills to prepare for careers where you plan, direct and evaluate operations to run a successful business.
This career cluster is divided into five pathways:
Administrative Support
Business Information Management
General Management
Human Resources Management
Operations Management
Administrative Support facilitates business operations through a variety of administrative and clerical duties including information and communication management, data processing and collection, and project tracking.
Sample occupations include:
Administrative Assistant
Court Reporter
Customer Service Representative
Data Entry Specialist
Management Analyst
Medical Transcriptionist
Order Processor
Paralegal
Receptionist
Records Processing Assistant
Shipping and Receiving Clerk
Business Information Management is an umbrella term covering those careers that provide a bridge between business processes/initiatives and IT. Employees in this area help to align business and IT goals.
Sample occupations include:
Account Executive
Budget Analyst
Chief Executive Officer
Computer Support Specialist
Cost Analyst
Database Analyst
Desktop Publisher
Executive Assistant
Maintenance Technician
Management Analyst
Operations Research Analyst
Software Test Engineer
Systems Analyst
Technical Writer
Word Processor
General Management focuses on careers that plan, organize, direct, and evaluate all or part of a business organization through the allocation and use of financial, human, and material resources.
Sample occupations include:
Administrative Services Manager
Billing Manager
Business and Development Manager
Contract Administrator
Credit Manager
Director
Entrepreneur
Franchisee
General Manager
Meeting and Convention Planner
Office Manager
Payroll Manager
Project Manager
Sports and Entertainment Manager
Human Resources Management focuses on the staffing activities that involve planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training, performance appraisal, compensation, and safety of employees.
Sample occupations include:
Compensation and Benefits Manager
Compliance Officer
EEO Specialist
Human Resources Manager
Occupational Analyst
Personnel Recruiter
Public Relations Manager
Training and Development Manager
Operations Management focuses on planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling the resources needed to produce/provide a business's goods and/or services. Examples of activities in Operations Management are quality control, scheduling, procurement, and warehousing.
Sample occupations include:
Chief Operating Officer
Facilities Manager
Master Scheduler
Media Planner, Buyer
Operations Manager
Procurement Specialist
Purchasing Manager
Sales Manager
Salesperson
In order to make a plan for your future career goals, you need to know how to get there and make sure it is a good fit for you. There are several tools that can be used for career research. These tools can give you a description of the career, skills needed, tasks involved, wage range, and education/training needed.
Here are a few career research tools:
Onet-Use the "Occupation Search" features
CareerOneStop-Use "Occupation Search" or "List of Occupations"
The more you know about a career the more you can decide if it is a good match with your interests, skills and talents. Also it will help you make a plan towards your future career goals. A few good ways to do that is to see that career in action, talk to someone in that career or attend a career event.
Go to the "Upcoming Events" to check for monthly career events and go to the "Future Focused Series" to register for a virtual career chat with a professional in a career field of interest.
Contact your Career Specialist, Michelle Kuck MAISD Career Specialist : mkuck@muskegonisd.org, to talk about job shadow, internship, externship, talent tour or informational interview options that may be available .
Go to CareerOneStop or Going Pro in Michigan to view career related videos.
Business Management and Administration careers can be found across a variety of career paths and clusters. Think of all the different types of businesses-from manufacturing to healthcare from car dealerships to restaurants. Every business will have some type of management or administrative roles to help run that business.
Here is just one example:
Core Realty Partners