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Business Teachers, Postsecondary

Also called: Business Instructor, Business Professor, Instructor, Professor

What they do:

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.

On the job, you would:
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as financial accounting, principles of marketing, and operations management.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
On the job, you'll need:

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Business

  • management
  • accounting and economics

Math and Science

  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Problem Solving

  • 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

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • use rules to solve problems

Math

  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem

Social

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

  • Integrity
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Independence
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Attention to Detail
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Electronic mail software

  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook

Computer based training software

  • Blackboard software
  • Schoology

Word processing software

  • Google Docs
  • Microsoft Word

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Job Outlook

The job outlook for this position is Bright.

New job opportunities are very likely in the future. This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.

Median Annual Salary: $88,790

Education

Doctoral degree or master's degree is usually needed.