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Hello, I'm sort of new to recruiting. I'm recruiting for a sales position where 've met with a few different qualified candidates, my last one is an interesting case.

They have the skills that I think would translate for the team, but no sales experience. The interesting factor that applies to every role, not just recruiting for sales is that they use a different first and last name compared to their legal name. They applied under that name on their resume, just in the formal "use your legal name section" I noticed a completely different name. The way we recruit has us screen the background early on for each candidate, so they are completely fine background wise. They didn't address it besides saying "my legal name is..." at the second stage interview where we covered some basic legalities. I guess this could be normal because that's the name they go by? Same gender style of name to clarify. I've only seen it with a first name, not both. Hope to get some advice, and perhaps stories from your experiences.

Seemed a bit odd to me. Would you second guess, or push for answers? Trying to make sure that the team were building is here for the long run.

Title sums it up, I'm interested in hearing your stories with the programs. How they went for you, what you enjoyed and didn't, whether you went into this fresh or with years of experience...

MSB Communications

MSB Entrepreneurship

MSB Finance

MSB Business intelligence

Those are the 4 degrees I am considering right now. The goal is to get a masters that will enable me to earn more "right out of the gate" and help me prepare to start a business.

Now if that sounded general, it is. The specifics are as follows:
I did my bachelors in business admin. I am now certain that I want to create my own business. But I need a job that will pay me enough to where I can save up to live off of it for long period of time while I grind that process out. My idea has been to learn how to run a business (at least to some degree) through another persons business. Luckily I just landed a job where I am handling the finances, bringing AI into the work place, and handling a lot of communications/admin work, so I really am getting a lot of experience. I am documenting everything that I do, not only for myself to look back on, share with employers, but also noting exactly what I am going to completely avoid for my business from the start which will save the need for paying a person (like me) to do this position at my company. Literally if everything was more well thought through and connected, most of my work wouldn't have to be done by a human.

The reason it's hard for me to choose: I want to do the entrepreneurship route because it sounds so applicable and interesting. But it's likely going to not help and or even scare away employers when I start gunning for a higher paying job.

Finance sorta makes more sense because it will look decent on paper, but geez I don't want to work in finance for any longer than I have to.

BI makes sense because the skills seem very practical. After reading through the courses it sounds like the most direct training for a job out of any of the degree plans I've seen.

Communications sounds relevant because most of my job once I start my business will be letting every human I can, know about it. I would say it's almost like marketing, except marketing would be more useful - I think if they offered marketing it'd be a toss up between ENT, FIN, & Marketing.

As with all of our lives not everything can be explained in a simple public post, so I'll say that I am posting to see what each of you though of these programs. What they taught you, how you found them useful, jobs offers you received due to the degree (Include experience if it's relevant in your story). And not to sound too blunt, but I'm not looking for advice on things I didn't list. Perhaps I live a life you do not prefer, but I am not looking to read about it.

I just finished my bachelors in Business Admin last month at WGU, I'm standard college age. I was going to continue with them, but I think because I do really well with taking tests I should challenge myself with writing - UMPI.

I am trying to achieve 2 things:

First I want to be able to qualify for a consulting job. I have ADHD, and it seems like consulting is actually one of the best jobs for me (granted I have not done that kind of work yet).

Second I want to start my own company, and be really good at running and scaling it.

Degree I am super heavily considering is MSB-ENT. I have been going back and fourth trying to consider the pros and cons using different AI models. I am concerned that it will like not qualify me for some consulting jobs, but I really don't want to study something analytical that will qualify me for jobs I don't want. Like right now I work in finance and contracting. I couldn't care less about the whole making numbers side of things, it's fine I guess. However when it comes to communication, coordinating, looking into numbers that I do care about which would be like engagement, how to retain customers and gain more customers, I care a lot. I see it as directly relevant to my future, so I am like practicing now using tactics to get our customers to sign new leases, continue with our services and stuff like that.

Some questions that come to mind:
How have you managed to focus when you are writing long papers?
Tactics you utilized to complete the degree as quickly as possible?
I am not financially well off unfortunately, and I really need to get scholar ships and anything else available to help me complete this, recommendations for that are needed.
What kind of jobs do you think I will qualify for with this degree?
Are there any other degrees you think that would be better and if so, why?

Little bit more of my background for the bachelors - TBH WGU was a no brainer when I discovered a lot of the degree was OA, meaning I just took a proctored test. That played into my hand well since I am really good at standard testing. I completed it technically within 2-3months, but I waited to do the graduation until last month so that I could get more employment opportunities and internship related work as a student. However This program will be the complete opposite, but I think I need it. Jobs need critical thinkers, and developing my ability to do that and communicate at higher levels will absolutely help me elevate.

Hey guys, I am kind of in a pickle that I put myself in.

I wanted to get any degree to check the box, but I realized that my business administration degree will not be extremely useful, and that I should have just gone with my first thought which was accounting. But I was worried about being too niche incase I wanted to work in something else.

Well, I completed almost all of my classes in the degree, I am less than 60 days out from the end date, and after speaking to people in accounting, I think I've made a mistake and wonder if I can switch right now to the accounting track and still graduate within that time frame.

When I say close to finishing, I mean I am like capable of finishing the degree within 2 days if I wanted.

I need any useful advice on what to do about this.

I am not interested in paying for another semester because if we break it down, I would be paying close to the same amount to just enroll in a masters degree in accounting. Unsure what to do about this.

I calculated the classes, I would have 9 classes to take if I switched right now to the accounting degree. 8 of them would be OA. I did great on my OA's, and PA's in this class. The only PA would be the capstone.

Hi everyone,

I’m a recent bachelor’s in Business Administration grad trying to pivot into an accounting career. I unfortunately have not done any internships due to working full time at various other jobs to support myself (not cheap).

Although I am very aware of how the job market is without a college degree, I was not expecting it to be so harsh regarding applying with one. I’ve been turned down for a range of roles – including basic AP/AR jobs even when I met the criteria. At this point it’s clear I don’t understand how hiring is really working for entry-level accounting right now.

My background and what I’m doing so far:

Bachelor’s in Business Administration (graduated recently) I have accounting coursework from my degree. Currently self-studying accounting using AccountingCoach (found through a recommendation.) I'm Comfortable with the basics. List of some off the dome examples: accounting principles, debits/credits, the accounting equation, 3-way match, and the flow of the accounting cycle.

I have MS excel experience, it's listed on my resume, and I have a MS 365 certification. Both of those skills are listed on accounting jobs.

Resume is cleaned for ATS and tailored toward accounting and AP/AR roles rather than generic business jobs

I’ve looked into certifications like QuickBooks/QuickBooks ProAdvisor or bookkeeping certificates. I’m open to doing a cert, but I’ve found some platforms painfully boring or poorly structured, so I’ve leaned heavily on AccountingCoach because the explanations and quizzes actually help me retain the material. I’m willing to grind through whatever is most effective for employers, not just collect expensive random certificates.

What I’m trying to figure out:

1. In this market, which specific certifications or credentials actually move the needle for entry-level roles? It seems to me like most people with a business bachelor's degree fit the criteria jobs claim to be looking for, yet there are many posts about unemployment.
   • Are there any that hiring managers genuinely care about vs. ones that just look nice on a resume but don’t matter?
2. How realistic is it right now to break into entry-level accounting with:
   • A business degree (not an accounting degree)
   • Self-study in accounting fundamentals and bookkeeping
   • Excel skills and a beginner level in one accounting software …but no formal accounting work experience yet?
3. Where in Cincinnati could I go for networking to see if that would help me?
4. If you were in my position and needed to land an entry-level accounting role as efficiently as possible, how would you prioritize your time? Right now I am working at a warehouse temp job because I've gotten no hits on my resume, and it's not only soul crushing work, but also bad for my resume regarding future employment.

Look forward to hearing from you guys. Also, to answer someone's future comment about "why didn't I study accounting" that's because I didn't want to pigeon hole myself. I thought a more general business degree would look better if I decided on another job, but that has not been the case, and I'd actually rather go into accounting.