EMBA: An Insider's Guide for Working Professionals in Pursuit of Graduate Business Education
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Book Description
Ideal for employees and employers: Stay fully employed and graduate in two years!
The Executive MBA is designed for working professionals who wish to receive a fully accredited MBA within two-years while maintaining full time employment. This book is written for career minded working professionals-employees and employers-who have chosen to gain several years of work experience before returning to the classroom and value professional development. The Ideal EMBA candidate is between the ages of 28 and 55 and feels it is time to augment work with a highly practical and hands-on graduate business education. Students network with the best and the brightest and course work may include international consulting projects. The Executive MBA teaching method merges business school with professional work experience.
With An Insider's Guide, get inside the classroom and see why each year more than 5,000 graduates choose the Executive MBA over the traditional full-time and part-time MBA. Join an ambitious classroom of managers, vice presidents, executives, doctors, and lawyers from corporate and non profit, many who are parents, including working mothers. Learn the different types of MBA sponsorship and how to secure funding from your employer. Read how the program is customized to help you reach your professional goals and get you on fast-track to executive status. Chapters include detailed reviews of the unique executive educational delivery method, important program facts, tips on balancing work with school, with special sections for doctors, lawyers, and women considering a graduate business degree. The book provides guidance on the application process, helpful questions during the interview, sample essays and helpful tips for financial sponsorship. Take the EMBA self-assessment to determine if the Executive MBA is right for you. Read first hand accounts from EMBA graduates, faculty, and administrators representing top MBA programs.
The Insider's Guide is ideal for employers and career professionals who want to understand, value, and institutionalize a corporate sponsorship program. The book describes various forms of corporate sponsorship and teaches best practices on using the EMBA as a tool for professional development and to identify, recruit, and retain top employees. An Insider's Guide offers guidelines on setting up a corporate sponsorship program based on the best practices of many top companies. Equally important, the book details an entirely new form of corporate sponsorship that helps employers protect the corporate sponsorship investment while still supporting its employees. Read from employers, hiring managers, and human resource officers of non profits to major corporations on why they sponsor their employees and hire graduates of the Executive MBA.
The Insider's Guide also includes a comprehensive EMBA directory that profiles over 180 US and International schools. Graduate business school is a serious investment for both employees and employers. Get all the facts, know all your options and use An Insider's Guide to help make the right decision for your professional career and learn its competitive advantage to the company. Know your options and learn about the Executive MBA.
From the Publisher
We live in a dynamic and highly competitive global economy. Approximately 68% of US employees report being concerned about job security and the future of their careers. Employees are concerned about limited advancement opportunities; question stability of the industry; and afraid of job loss due to attrition or merge in the next few years.
Jason A. Price, MS, MBA, offers a highly practical and detailed review of the Executive MBA (EMBA) an important and practical form of professional education and development.
An Insider's Guide speaks to both employees and employers providing inside information and a detailed review including the pros and cons of pursuing an MBA, and in particular, the Executive MBA. The book contains self assessment tools, step by step guidelines to secure business school financing, and a comprehensive directory of the more than 180 programs throughout the world.
The book is ideal for career counselors, recruiters, HR, and employers describing best practices on creating a sponsorship program, selecting the right EMBA candidate, strategies for recruitment and retention, and most importantly, protecting the financial educational investment.
EMBA: An Insider's Guide for Working Professionals in Pursuit of Graduate Business Education
Executive MBA: An Insider's Guide for Working Professionals in Pursuit of Graduate Business Education,Jason A. Price,Xlibris Corporation,1413428029,Adult & Continuing Education,Business/Economics,Education,Graduate School Guides - Business,Higher,Study Guides,Economics, Finance, Business and Industry,Organizational theory & behaviour
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