Attending extra credit opportunities, like the Business Speakers Series that is offered to business students at MCTC, enriches your learning experience and education. Here are some of the benefits of these opportunities:
- Receiving honest advice about success from experienced and seasoned business professionals is highly valuable to your education and career.
- Learning about how these professionals were able to achieve success and how they learned from their mistakes is a great reminder that things don’t always go according to plan, but success is still possible.
- Having the opportunity to participate in question/answer session with business people while you are in an academic setting is a great way to learn.
- Being in another classroom with students who are in the business program is really helpful, especially if you are an online student or not a business major. It is likely that they will ask questions that you never thought of and it will complement your educational experience.
- Meeting a professional from the business field could be an opportunity for networking or mentorship. It is at least an opportunity to take what you have learned in class or from the material and see how it applies in the professional world.
- Hearing inspirational and encouraging advice from someone in the field reminds you of why you are in school and why you are motivated to work hard.
- Exposure to established professionals sharing their accomplishments is a great reminder of altruism. They have successful careers and choose to pay it forward by sharing their stories with interested students. They help make the business world feel like a community by contributing to the success of new professionals.
- More than anything, you get a really good idea of their attitude about working. There are some things you can’t learn from reading a textbook and attitude is one of those things.