The MBA qualification is designed to develop strategic thinking
and empower you to reach career goals required for a role in senior
management.
If you are in full time employment, or ready to leave
university you may want to consider the opportunities that
acquiring an MBA may offer you and the career doors that it will
open.
Here are the top ten signals that may indicate that you are
ready to dedicate the next one or two years of your life and
studying for an MBA:
- You already have some experience in real world business, have a
reasonable idea about business practice and want to take this
experience to the next level.
- You are in a middle management position and feel that you have
the ambition and drive to progress through your existing
company.
- You are a university student who is dead set on going straight
into business school and have a compelling reason for getting an
MBA before gaining work experience.
- If you are looking for a complete career change, an MBA
provides you with the skills set to do this and make you more
attractive to a wider range of potential employers.
- In certain industries very few people hired straight from
university gain promotion to advanced positions, for example, in
the banking or consultancy sectors. An MBA is necessary in
most firms in these sectors.
- If you are planning to become an entrepreneur running a
business, an MBA will give you the business and marketing exposure
and grounding needed to maximise the potential growth of your
company.
- You are planning on expanding a business idea and become an
employer and need to know effective ways to manage a team and
human resources guidelines and regulations.
- Although an MBA is not essential for a leadership role, if you
aspire to leadership, it is a valuable set of skills to have at
your disposal.
- If you are struggling to communicate with people in a more
senior role than yourself, an MBA will give you the business
language you need to converse more effectively and to influence
others.
- If your current employer wants you to become a more resourceful
and better qualified employee and is willing to invest both time
and money into furthering your skills set.
An MBA is a very useful qualification to have under your belt
whether you're in engineering, finance technology,
consultancy, the sciences or an entrepreneur with great business
ideas to pitch to potential investors. Furthermore, the contacts
you meet during your MBA study will often become useful allies in
the future.
THE SMF SCHOLARSHIP: If you are a young
engineer looking to develop your management knowledge and skills
and considering an MBA, please look at the rest of
the SMF Scholarship
sections of this website applications for
a £30,000 scholarship are considered on an ongoing basis, with up
to ten awards made between August and September each year.
