6 Unusual Jobs for Business Administration Graduates

You may be under the impression that any business administration job you get after graduation will be a corporate 9-to-5 job that has to do with numbers. That’s a misconception. Career options in business administration are endless. Getting the proper education is the first step. Once you have your associate degree, it can take you down a path with myriad possibilities.

Here are six jobs you can qualify for with an associate degree in business administration:

Retail manager

You’ll be in charge of the stores sales team and will set performance goals, develop employee training programs, analyze sales numbers, oversee budgets and help with marketing efforts. You’ll also likely be the person customers come to with complaints, and you’ll mediate issues among employees.

Restaurant or food services manager

If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant, you know that it can be a frantic place. The restaurant manager has to be a Jack or Jill of all trades, managing the day-to-day business operations and handling customer service responsibilities.

Property or community association manager

In this role, you’ll monitor a residential, commercial or industrial property and make sure that it is maintained properly and keeps its resale or leasing value up. Most likely you’ll work in an office and keep track of lease agreements, collect rent, screen tenants, manage budgets, handle maintenance and tenant requests, and even recruit tenants. You may also be called upon to show apartments to potential tenants, inspect the grounds and supervise property maintenance workers.

Special events coordinator

If you enjoy planning parties, meetings or marketing events, this could be the job for you. When you study business administration, you’ll learn how to manage a business. Managing a special event is similar. You could work for a big company or even hire yourself out to multiple companies. Your duties could include arranging all details for special events, including locations, transportation, meals, décor and entertainment.

Account executive

If you work for a company as an account executive, you’ll be assigned a client list and need to make sure the company is handling each client’s needs. If your job is in an advertising agency, you’ll meet with clients to talk about their advertising needs, present ad campaign ideas and costs, maintain the advertising budget and invoice the client, and make sales pitches to win new accounts.

Human resources administrator

As a liaison between employees and management, your job will entail recruiting new staff, conducting orientation meetings for new hires, distributing benefits information, discussing workplace concerns and more. In some smaller companies, you might also administer payroll and help employees determine their benefits.

These are only a few possibilities for business administration graduates. The field is extremely versatile and very much in demand. According to O*NET Online, jobs in business administration are projected to grow faster than average through 2026. When you enroll in an associate degree program, you’ll learn about human resources and business management, marketing, finance and accounting, and the legal environment of modern business. You can apply your knowledge in nearly every industry.

If you think the versatility of a business administration career might be for you, consider studying at MTI College Sacramento. The Business Administration Degree program at MTI provides training in general administrative skills and the principles of business management. You will also:

• Increase your self-confidence by developing interpersonal skills to help you deal with people
• Improve your communication and listening skills by learning to write reports, letters and emails; deliver presentations; and negotiate with customers and colleagues
• Become an involved team player working in a collaborative environment
• Learn to provide excellent customer service by understanding your company’s services and how to best present them to your customers and satisfy their needs
• Solve problems and make decisions that can help your company grow and profit
• Exert your creativity by presenting new ideas and making innovations that make an impact

Moreover, your education at MTI offers hands-on experience and instruction from teachers who have worked in business. They share their experiences with you and put you into real-world scenarios that you may well be faced with once you enter the business workplace.

There’s no time like the present to begin your business administration career training. Contact MTI today.

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Bobs and Lobs and Bangs: Hair Trends for 2019

When the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2019 ushers in hope, expectation and change. Is one of your resolutions – or desires – for the new year to change your look? An easy way to start fresh is with a new haircut or color.

Here’s a sneak peek at some hair trends that might be just what you’re hoping for:

The cut’s the thing, and Bob’s your uncle.

If you want a short- or medium-length cut, a bob is the one of choice for 2019. However, this year’s bob is a little different than the layered one of the past. Bring your style into the new year with a blunt-cut jawline bob that falls somewhere between your ears and chin, with the back slightly shorter. Wear it sleek or rounded with a deep side part for a retro look. If your preference is a no-fuss, messy style, just tousle, texturize and it’s done. If you want more structure and something très chic, go with the French girl bob. It’s squared off at the bottom and rests between the cheekbone and jawline. Its signature feature is high, heavy, straight-across bangs (reminiscent of how your mother may have cut them in your early years).

Are you “lob-bying” for a new look in 2019?

Longer than a bob, the lob can hit at the base of the neck or top of the collarbone. This cut is extremely versatile and can be messy or not, layered or weighted and structured. Try blending in interior layers – “lion’s mane” layering – and using mousse to get volume without weight – an ideal style if your hair is thin. A blunt cut along the perimeter is also a good choice for the medium lob. Part it in the middle and let it do its thing, and you’ll rock in 2019.

Send 2018 out with a whisper and bring in the new year with a bang (er, bangs).

Any style of fringe is going to work wonders in 2019 – and with any hair length. Try your bob with blunt bangs or shorter fringe that blends into gradual layers. If your hair is long, you may want to go with a casual curtain-style, face-framing bang. There’s always the retro ’60s waif-style bangs and ultra-long, straight locks. Can you picture that floral mini-dress and go-go boots? Yep. That’s it. Maybe you’re more of a wild child. Try thick bangs that hang over your eyes and try pairing them with a heavy layered cut that stops at your neckline. Then texturize the heck out of it!

Pixies are not always elves.

Most of us have had a pixie cut at one time or another, but the “new” pixie is grown up … and grown out. It looks as if you’ve decided to let your hair grow again. The “shaggy” pixie’s top is generally longer and choppier than the sides and can actually be styled. Curl it a little, texturize or tousle to change it up. A variation of the grown-up pixie is still top heavy, but it has shaved or slicked-back sides.

What’s old is new again.

Well, what goes around, comes around – even with hairstyles. Some popular styles for 2019 will take their cues from the 1960s and 1970s. Remember the beehive styles of the ’60s? They’re coming back. So are the long bangs that were popular then, as well as the straight, long, center-parted hair of the ’70s. Vintage shaggy layers are also going to be popular, including those reminiscent of the 1990s.

Tone down the color, but amp up the richness.

In 2018, color trends crossed the rainbow. Next year promises to tone it down a bit – except for rainbow wigs in hot colors (lemon yellow, anyone?). Watch for inky black, ash gray, chocolate with copper, chestnut with gold and strawberry with honey highlights. Creamy, multi-dimensional blonde and blonde with rose-gold highlights look to be popular. The bold pinks, blues and plums are more likely to show up as pops of color or in hair tips. If your tresses are curly, you may be interested in trying Pintura highlights, which are highlights painted on rather than with foils. They bring a lightness to the face, but since everyone’s curls are unique, the look will also be different.

Don’t just style your hair; decorate it.

Here’s a new one: put a micro-braid down your center part or at your hairline. Do you have several barrettes or hair clips? Wear them all at once. Fashion a fancy chignon or top knot, and add some beads, flowers or feathers to it. You might also try a technique called braid pressing that gives a slightly crimped look to your center-parted locks.

These are trends for hair that are expected to be big in 2019. Maybe you’ll decide on one for your new look. If you enjoy being really creative with your hair, you might use one of these as an idea and go from there. If that’s more you, consider a career in cosmetology. MTI College’s Paul Mitchell The School helps you develop the beauty and cosmetology skills you need for a rewarding career. Classes are small, and the one-on-one attention you receive from your instructors – professional hairstylists and estheticians – helps you succeed.

Make 2019 your year. Register for the cosmetology program at  MTI College today.

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A Day in the Life of a Medical Assistant

Medical assistants wear many hats while helping doctors perform various clinical and administrative duties.

When you graduate from the medical assistant program at MTI College, you will have the background needed for an entry-level position with many possibilities.

What does a typical day for a medical assistant look like? Imagine for a moment that you are a medical assistant in a small office shared by three physicians. Here’s what you might do on any day of the week:

7:45am
Arrive at the office so you have 15 minutes to drink your coffee and take a bite of a bagel before your workday officially begins. Of course, you’re checking the patient portal while you’re doing it, in case anyone sent in a question that needs a quick answer. You organize your list into test results, appointments and medical questions for the doctor.

8:15am

Just as you begin to pull files and enter test results, you learn the receptionist is home with a sick child. You have to step in and handle the phones until someone else can step in.

8:45am

Dr. A asks you to bring her a box of examination gloves – size small – and lay out the instruments she’ll need to stitch the gash in her patient’s leg. Oh – she says you might as well stay in the room with her and help with the dressing.

9:00am

You’re on flu shot duty this morning, and the waiting room has about five seniors who need this year’s dose. Before you administer the shot, you need to ask the patients about allergies, hand them information on this year’s strain and instruct them to call if they have bad reactions after the inoculation. Just as you finish with patient number six, you’re paged by Dr. C.

10:00am

Dr. C needs help with his patient. He had surgery three days ago, and you must remove the dressing and clean the wound while the doctor looks through the post-surgical notes on the computer.

10:15am

Okay. You can finally call in that last patient for his flu shot.

10:25am

You have to get back to the call backs from the patient portal. Fortunately, most of them were to make appointments. You lucked out! All but one person answered the phone, but you left a message.

10:45am

After a much-needed bathroom break and a sip of water, you’re back in the reception area. Mrs. D has called to say her insurance provider has changed. She’s not sure if Dr. B is allowed to examine her for the follow-up to a procedure he performed on her earlier in the year. You take the phone call and tell her that you’ll contact the new company and see what’s going on.

11:00am

The other receptionist has to leave the office for an hour, and you’re asked to take calls and check patients in. You will do it, of course, but you had hoped to organize hospital admissions and lab services information for Dr. A’s patients. Well, lunch probably won’t happen today.

12:10pm

The receptionist is back, so you can take care of the hospital admissions info now. It’s a good thing you brought an apple along; that’s lunch today.

1:00pm

The afternoon patients start arriving. Dr. B’s next appointment is a new patient. After weighing her and taking her vitals, you start adding her medical history to the computer – current medications, past surgeries, the number of pregnancies, health concerns, etc. She starts sniffling because she’s gained 20 pounds since her last check-up. You talk about her diet, give her the number of a nutritionist and say that when Dr. B comes in, the three of you can talk about an exercise plan.

1:45pm

Dr. C’s patient is new, too – a two-week-old baby who is there for his first check-up. You weigh and measure him and ask his mother how often he eats and what she feeds him. She’s breastfeeding and she is afraid he isn’t eating enough. In addition, she’s worried she’s not a good mother. You reassure her and ask if she needs anything to help her. “More sleep,” she says, and you both laugh.

2:15pm

A frantic mother comes in with her seven-year-old daughter, who fell during recess. The girl’s ankle is swollen and her knee is scraped. You help getting her into the exam room and you clean off the scrapes, which just need a little antiseptic cream and a Band-Aid, but the doctor will need to check the ankle.

2:45pm

Dr. B asks hands you a stack of files and wants you to draft letters to tell patients that their routine screening exams came back clear.

3:30pm

Oops. As you look through some charts, you notice a couple of procedures were accidentally miscoded. You need to check them out, verify the correct information and make sure the information was given properly to the patients’ insurance companies.

3:45pm

It’s almost 4:00pm; where has the time gone? You’re not finished yet, though. Two more kids come in with their mother, and you accompany them to Dr. A’s examination room. Both have fevers and sore throats, and the doctor wants you to do strep tests and report back with the results.

4:00pm

The tests were positive, so Dr. A asks you to enter the information in the computer. He prescribes Amoxicillin and asks you to print the script and give follow-up instructions to the mother.

4:30pm

You’re supposed to be finished for the day, but that’s not going to happen. You need to text patients and remind them of their appointments for tomorrow, send test tubes to the lab for processing and check the supply closet to see what needs to be replenished.

5:15pm

You’re finally finished for the day. Although you’re tired, you’re proud of the job you’ve done and can’t wait to do it again tomorrow.

If you’re interested in an in-demand career that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports is expected to grow by 24 percent through 2024, consider enrolling in the medical assistant program at MTI College. Contact MTI College today.

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Alumni Spotlight: Nakia Collins, Celebrity Stylist

Many have dreamed of working in the entertainment business with celebrities. For many, it’s a pipe dream. For Nakia Collins, a 2011 graduate of Paul Mitchell the School at MTI College, it’s a reality. Collins is the personal hairstylist for Beyoncé.

Collins’ path to landing such an exciting job took dedication, hard work and a little bit of luck. At MTI, she studied cosmetology and took outside courses in extensions, hair color and styling. She also had the opportunity to experience Caper, a two-day hands-on event for Paul Mitchell “future professionals” that involves presentations and classroom instruction from top artists and educators in the field. “Caper changed my whole perspective of being a hairstylist and wanting to take my career further as an artist,” she says.

“After graduating MTI, I went to work with Colors Salon and BIA Salon to not only assist but also to learn more in depth about hair,” she says. “[BIA] held free classes on color, cutting and styling and helped mold me into a confident stylist.” She had worked there for nearly three years when she and her husband took a leap of faith and followed their dreams to move to Los Angeles.

Before they left for L.A., Collins did her prep work. “I started watching movies and looking at which hair stylists worked on [celebrities],” she says. “I kept coming across Kim Kimble, so I decided to reach out to her.” Kimble is a celebrity stylist whose clientele includes Kelly Rowland, Nicki Minaj, Mary J. Blige, Halle Berry and Shakira. Kimble granted Collins an interview.

“After almost a year, I was assisting her at her salon in West Hollywood,” Collins says. She worked for Kimble for about three years and then decided to work freelance in film and production on music videos, awards shows, TV shows and more.

From there, Collins worked a few years for Tina Knowles, who introduced her to her daughter – Beyoncé. “I am truly grateful for [Knowles],” she says. “She was a hairstylist as well and has taught me so much about hair. I am very grateful to work with such a humble and loving family.”

Working with one of the world’s best-known celebrities comes with challenges. “Everyone will see your work, and it’s a love-hate situation, sometimes because the media is really cutthroat,” Collins says. “You just have to love what you do and be open to learning.”

“I would say traveling is one of the best parts of the job and being able to explore creativity with great people,” she says. The traveling, though, creates another challenge: balancing work and family life. “It’s a constant lesson, but it’s possible. “I have two amazing children and a wonderful husband to keep me striving for more.”

Even though Nakia Collins has a wonderful job that she loves, she has other dreams to pursue. “I would love to travel the world and speak to people about not giving up and following their dreams,” she says. “I would also love to create a space for new professionals coming into this industry.”

For anyone considering a career in cosmetology, Collins offers a few words of wisdom. “If it’s something you love, make it work for you. Don’t be scared of failing,” she says. “Some of my biggest failures brought out my best work. After all, when you love what you do it’s not work.”

Are you ready to follow your dreams to become a hairstylist? MTI’s Paul Mitchell the School helps you develop the beauty and cosmetology skills you need for a rewarding career. At Paul Mitchell the School, you’ll learn salon techniques as well as the business fundamentals you’ll need. You’ll learn about marketing, merchandising, client retention and cash flow management. All of that plus small class sizes limited to 16 students and one-on-one attention from your industry-professional instructors will prepare you for the next step: taking the California State Cosmetology Board exam. From there, the sky’s the limit.

Make your dream a reality. Register for the cosmetology program at MTI College today.

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