University MBA in Global Banking and Finance: A Career Path Plan

This essay, written by a student, outlines a detailed plan for pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Global Banking and Finance. The introduction highlights the student's career aspirations and the rationale for choosing this specific field. The essay then delves into the subjects required for the program, including accounting for managers, leadership practice, finance, human resource management, international banking, marketing practice, business strategic analysis, operational management, and entrepreneurship, comparing them to the student's current academic background and exploring potential challenges. The core of the essay discusses the key skills necessary for success in this career path, such as interpersonal skills, oral communication, business writing, team working, divergent and coherent thinking, analysis and presentation of research information, resume writing, and job interview skills. The essay further examines relevant theories, including networking theory, social cognitive theory, and learning theory, and their impact on the student's approach to learning and career development. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of self-assessment, divergent thinking, and aligning interests with study materials to achieve career goals. The essay provides a comprehensive overview of the skills and knowledge required for a successful career in global banking and finance.

Global Study Program
Banking and finance
Name of the author-
University Name-

INTRODUCTION
With the ramified globalised changes, there are several courses which I could opt as
per the chosen career. I want to make my career in banking and finance filed where I could
deploy my divergent and coherent thinking to create value on the invested capital. The career
chosen to be opted is Masters in Business Administration in Global Banking and Finance.
This essay will divulge the key understanding on the chosen topic and related theories which
I could use in this study program. The following essay represents the approach that depicts
the subjects required to be studied in the due course and as well as represents the skill set that
is required to complete the course in an effective manner.
(A)
SUBJECTS REQUIRED FOR COMPLETING THE CHOSEN CAREER
Accounting for managers: this subject shall enable the student to get a complete knowledge
and understanding of the business transactions. The idea is to gather an understanding of the
accounting principles, financial analysis, and accounting relating to costs and management
(Peirson, Brown, Easton, &Howard, 2014).
Practice in leadership: this course is designed to evolve the leadership skills that the future
managers shall inhibit. The limelight area is development of technical skills of the managers
and gains an expertise in their professionalism (Machado, & Davim, 2016).
Finance: the knowledge regarding appraisal of investment, financial management, sensitivity
analysis, project financing, capital rationing, bond and equity valuation, policies of dividend
etc. shall be taken (Beal, 2016).
Management of human resources: all the knowledge relating to motivation, training,
selection, sourcing and rewarding of workforce is acknowledged. The management of human
resources is undertaken in this.
International banking: the regulatory and supervisory issues relating to the concept of
international banking. Study relating to regulation of banks, globalised banking, system of
shadow banking, etc is focused (O'Connell, 2017).
Practice of marketing: the concepts relating to marketing process is gathered. The
relationship between different concepts like the marketing strategies, customer behaviour,
brand reputation, technological considerations, etc. shall be discussed.

Business strategic analysis: to work with the dynamic and complexed business environment
there stands a need to formulate strategies that are bringing a balance between the firm’s
internal and external environment. This subject is dealing in the same line (Tarnec, &Louis,
2015).
Operational management: the study of the management of different business operations
dealing with company’s business and marketing strategy is dealt. The focus of this subject is
to help the manager to aid in management of different business operations and processes.
Entrepreneurship: the study deals with all the areas that relate to financing and inception of
the new business idea that the business owner is thinking to incorporate (Rongpipi, 2015).
As far as the comparison between the subjects required to be studied and the subjects that are
intended to be studied, there lies difference in the scope of study. The current study subjects
relate to these areas but in a limited scope. The further study shall explain in depth the current
subjects only, but the horizon is expanded. It also reveals the challenges and possible issues
which I might face while studying this course. Nonetheless, this course focuses on my own
understanding and will deepen my critical and divergent thinking towards the banking and
finance sectors.
(B)
KEY SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THE CHOSEN CAREER
The chosen career is Master in Business Administration in Global Banking and Finance. This
career could be chosen by the person who is dynamic and knows how to express the
objectives of the business in a realistic manner. The skills that the person has must be very
versatile personality and knows how to work effectively in a team. The communication and
presentation skills need to be very solid and well organised to be a good manager and conduct
business in an organised manner. The most important skills in this course are discussed in
detail as follows:
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
All the soft skills that are must to be embedded in order to gain success in successfully
maintaining the leadership role that includes motivating the team and working in a
coordinated manner are requisite. These skills incorporate every important aspect that shall
help the leader to deal with the clients and impart all that is required to gain success and beat
failure. It is important to communicate well with the peers, customers, suppliers and every

other related party to make a good business. All the normal and general communication skills
are must in this (Cheruvelil, et. al 2014).
ORAL SKILLS
There is a serious need that the managers to be good at speaking and communicating well.
These include sound verbal communication, motivational tactics, public speaking skills, etc.
the way a leader speaks is of much significance when it comes to an MBA. The public
speaking needs to be proficient in both group and individually (Biswas, 2017).
BUSINESS WRITING SKILLS
The business writing skills involve a trained leader who is well proficient and skilled in the
areas of punctuation, sentence structure, grammar and spelling. This will be useful in the
need when the leader needs to write the business related documents involving e-mails,
reports, letters, memos, and other related documents. This shall also be important to write
communications to be made to the public and other stakeholders (Weldy, 2017).
TEAM WORKING SKILLS
Any business is not a single person affair. Several employees and workforce are involved to
make the business grow. There is a need to bring harmony in the business by keeping the
team coordinated. Bring harmony and coordination in business is the job of the leader. The
leader must know how to work in a team and keep the goals in line. The leader must know
how to encourage the team and be an inspiration to help every person grow (Seenan,
Shanmugam, &Stewart, 2016). This team working skills helps in developing coherent
thinking and divergent work structure in effective manner.
Divergent and coherent business skills
It is analyzed that if I want to pursue banking and finance course then i must focus on using
my own divergent thinking and analytical work approach which will not only help me to
strengthen my own critical thinking for investment and banking but also assist me to identify
the possible future challenges which i might face while opting particular investment. This is
also required to prepare the long term strategic planning in business.
ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF BASIC RESEARCH INFORMATION
The leader needs to know how to analyse the business results. The results need to be analysed
with the help of certain ratios and trend analyses. The aim of the information analysis is to get
an understanding of the business performance. There are several areas of entrepreneurship
and finance where business lacks can be understood by a systematic learning approach. After

the analysis is made it is important to interpret what the results speak about business
performance.
After the results are analysed and interpreted, the next important task is to present the results
in a form which can be understood well by the users. The presentation needs to be in the form
that is guided by the statutory reports. The form of the reports needs to be in a simple and
understandable manner. The presentation of the results must focus on both the qualitative and
quantitative manner (Hair, Wolfinbarger, Money, Samouel, &Page, 2015). The presentation
skills is also related to soft skills and basic computer knowledge which will help me to
convey my thoughts and business idea to the potential stakeholders who are ready and would
be ready to invest in the particular business ventures.
RESUME WRITING
Before any leadership gaining person can gain the position of the manager, there is a need for
him to market himself to gain that position. To join any company, he must be able to present
his skills to the prospective employer in the most attractive manner. The presentation of the
skills cannot be done orally. A written approach is needed to be adopted by the person to
enable the company to understand why the person should be appointed. All the skills that are
discussed above are required to be explained in the resume. The writing of resume involves
good reading and writing skills (Moore, 2016).
JOB-INTERVIEW SKILLS
It is not just enough to present the resume in a written form. Even though the skills are
already written in the resume, it is very much necessary to explain and advertise those skills
to the employer. This is important to make the employer decide whether to hire a person or
not for the given position. The ability to express one’s abilities in an interview in an oral
manner in an interview is counted in the job interview skills.
These skills include the very basic fundamentals being effective communication, proper
public speaking, sound listening, effective technological usage, better understanding etc.
(Smith, et. al 2017).
There are several theories and practice which needs to be followed while indulging in this
banking and finance course work (Weldy, 2017).
Networking theory
This theory focuses on setting up a proper network and implements the strategic
approach which will be used to develop social interaction, collaboration, and communication
lead and strengthen the student achievement and divergent thinking. This will not only take
the process of learning effective but also strengthen the study program and job employment.

Social cognitive theory
This theory reveals the interaction and leading skills which could be developed when
a person interact with others. It is required to understand the values, perception, views and
thinking of others to influence them in positive manner. It is found that self-efficiency is
one’s belief in their ability to reach set goals. If a person evaluates himself in effective
manner then he could easily mitigate the issues and challenges of the related work which will
assist in learning new ideas and coherent thinking.
Learning theory
As per the learning theory, selection of the particular course material for study should
be based on the interest and set objectives. It is analyzed that learning theory supports the
interest of the individual which strengthen the overall outcomes and learning skills of the
person. It is analyzed that if person wants to take interested course work in his study then he
should focus on pursuing related course work which will eventually help him to achieve his
goals and objectives (Weldy, 2017).
These all theories have divulged the key information and set skills which a person
should evaluate before selecting the particular course work and study program.
Conclusion
After assessing all the information and study course skills which needed to be
developed to pursue particular banking and finance course, it is found that student should
evaluate himself whether they have basic knowledge, coherent and divergent thinking
accompanied with the key skills. After that they need to decide which option they could opt
to undertake particular study program. This is very crucial to decide which study option a
student should opt. However, as per my perception, the particular case study material should
be selected based on own divergent thinking and set skill sets. After that objective and related
interest should be seen. Now it could be inferred that, study course material are the major
factor for achieving the set objectives and goals.

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