Know-How Exchange : Career/Training

It's not clear what you want to do. The place to start your exploration is within. Once you understand what the goal is, it's a lot easier to answer the questions you're asking.

So to take these one at a time, your MBA should help you understand the fundamentals of business management, strategy, finance, accounting, marketing, etc. Will that help you? It depends on what you want to do and how much of this you already know.

After you get your MBA, if you want to do something different from what you're doing now, you will be considered a newbie (a "fresher"). If you want to do something closely related to what you're doing now, then you probably won't be considered a newbie.

All of this depends on you and what you want to do with your career. We can't answer this for you. Didn't you consider all of this when you made the decision to get an MBA?

Dear natalia.vs28

Stop. Breathe. Relax. Now, forget about education for a moment because the only person buying is you.

The MBA in marketing you want to do? What do you WANT this qualification for? As for anyone here being able to tell you if an MBA will help you, no one here can answer that question.

What do YOU want it for and how will you having an MBA help others?

And as to you being "treated as a fresher and be paid as per the fresher's scale" this also depends on you, on your attitude, on where you wind up working, and on what you can do for your employer.

As for what an MBA in IT and systems is all about, look it up! You're the one applying for the MBA, not anyone here. Find schools where the MBA in IT is offered and read their information, then talk to students on those courses and ask them questions.

Gary Bloomer
Wilmington, DE, USA

If you are looking at long term career stability and growth.

Absolutely go for a higher qualification.

The job market is very very tough.

There are plenty of people out there who will tell you "Ah! don't waste your time with the higher degree - look at me, I'm successful and I didn't get an MBA ".

But if you ask those same people; would they have been more successful or would yolu have got there faster if you had an advanced qualification; I'm pretty sure that all of them will have to admit that it would not have hurt them.

Put yourself in the shoes of a recruiter faced with 500 resumes to review. You will be up against at least 200 in that batch who DO have an advanced degree so since the recruiter is only interviewing 10 and hiring one!!! You do the math.

DOn't worry about how much you are going to earn for the first year or two after the degree. Firstly, you will already earn slightly higher than the basic entry level simply because you have the qualification but your oppportunity for rapid growth will be 3 or 4 times faster wiuth the qualification.

My only advise would be:

Decide specifically what indusry you want to be in.
Choose a college or unbiversity wisely
MBA is great with a specific focus on marketing super if marketing is going to be your chosen career.

If you do the degree, you will always have it and you will never regret it.

If yuou don't do it, you may look back later and say "If only I had, or what if? "

Do it, love it, and reap the rewards later.

Good luck.

Matthew