Business Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor and industrial relations, marketing, and operations research. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Also called: Business Instructor, Business Professor, Instructor, Professor
Knowledge:
- teaching and course design
- management
- accounting and economics
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills:
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Analytical Thinking
- Independence
- Achievement/Effort
- Attention to Detail
- Adaptability/Flexibility
Technology:
Computer based training software
- Almaris E-Learning Systems Financial Accounting Tutor
- Blackboard Learn
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
