{"id":3379,"date":"2017-09-06T10:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2017-09-07T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:42:03","slug":"coba-business-and-technology-graduates-launch-their-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2017\/09\/06\/coba-business-and-technology-graduates-launch-their-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"COBA Business and Technology Graduates Launch their Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee Agee is COBA\u2019s Professional Development Manager for Business and Technology students. She works continuously with students to equip them with the skills and knowledge to successfully launch into the professional world. This includes meeting one-on-one with students to discuss their job and internship opportunities and outcomes, connecting them with employers who fit their skills and needs, and analyzing data on each student graduating while remaining in contact with them in their post-grad life. Aimee also conducts class insertions where she discusses specific careers with employers as well as more general information about interviews, resumes, networking, and more. Agee supplied the coaching and leadership needed to help COBA\u2019s business and technology students improve their outcomes this year. Her hard work and excellence in developing and communicating with students has impacted COBA graduates\u2019 academic and professional careers positively.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3012\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3012\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3012\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/08\/final-1-of-1-1-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/08\/final-1-of-1-1-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/08\/final-1-of-1-1-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/08\/final-1-of-1-1-768x849.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/08\/final-1-of-1-1-443x490.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Agee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that the B.B.A. programs\u2019 overall outcomes have moved beyond our stated goal of 90%. 93% of our May graduating class received either a job offer or an acceptance into a graduate program within ninety days of graduation. \u00a0Achieving this rate gives us a past-four-year average of 90.18 %. The average starting salary for our B.B.A. students was $41,497. The School of Information and Technology had a very strong bump in employment, especially from Digital Entertainment Technology graduates. SITC had a 100% outcome rate of students with a job offer or acceptance to a graduate program. This includes their international students and again exceeds the target of 90%. The average starting salary for SITC graduates was $57,600. COBA saw 100% of the students in the Master of Accountancy program employed within ninety days of graduation. The average starting salary for MAcc graduates was $55,000.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about COBA\u2019s Professional Development Program for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/community\/coba\/student-resources\/career-development\/overview.html\">current students<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/community\/coba\/student-resources\/career-development\/what-we-can-do-for-you\/for-alumni.html\">alumni<\/a> at the links listed or by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/community\/coba.html\">www.acu.edu\/coba<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee Agee is COBA\u2019s Professional Development Manager for Business and Technology students. She works continuously with students to equip them with the skills and knowledge to successfully launch into the professional world. This includes meeting one-on-one with students to discuss their job and internship opportunities and outcomes, connecting them with employers who fit their skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,2749,154269,2750,626,154272,1062,3039,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-careers-in","category-coba-staff","category-current-students","category-internships","category-macc","category-outcomes","category-placement-stories","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}