Accounting vs Human Resource vs Marketing ?

College Majors Business Major
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<p>Ok, I'm currently a Business Major and will begin my junior year this fall. I have declare myself as an Accounting concentration, however, I'm having second thought about continue to pursue this do to:</p>

<p>1: Family issue which force me to finish ASAP, within 2 years or less
2: Accounting is a really tough subject </p>

<p>I'm trying too look for an alternative concentration and currently have 2 in mind which are Human Resource and Marketing. I barely have much knowledge in these two concentration beside the general understanding of them. So, for those who have much more understanding, should I just suck it up and continue to go on with Accounting, or should I change to either HRM or Marketing ???</p>

<p>Here are some of my bad qualities and goals</p>

<p>1: I prefer to be able to obtain a job fairy easy right after school
2: I'm a bad writer</p>

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<p>Ken,</p>

<p>My perspective would have to stick to what you really want to do. Marketing and HR are very different from Accounting. I am an Accounting major right now, and if you maintain a high cum GPA 3.5+ and a High Accounting GPA, and if you are a good interviewer then you will not have a problem finding a job. I don’t know much about the market for HR/Marketing, but I can tell you, that you’ll be more likely to get a job in Accounting rather than HR/Mark.</p>

<p>The schoolwork will be more demanding for Accounting though, accounting is much more rigorous than HR/Mark, but it is not impossible to get good grades you just have to work a little harder. But overall, I think it should be your choice. If you are good at accounting and don’t mind it…I suggest you stick with it.</p>

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<p>Accounting is mad easy.</p>

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<p>Of course it’s easier to find a job with Accounting degree but HR is definitely very marketable too. Marketing and HR are not similar. Marketing’s basically a combination of sales, advertising, and market research. HR’s more psychology, communication, and a bit of law.</p>

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<p>The only issue I see with Accounting is that you need 150 credit hours to qualify for the CPA (if that is what you’re interested in) and you say you have to finish quickly.</p>

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Perhaps at the entry level.
At the more senior level, the marketing department is more like product management and almost everyone has an MBA.</p>

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<p>@cbreeze, right, that’s what I meant. Product management consists of skills obtained in sales, advertising and market research (PM = sales + ad + MR). And yeah… everyone in the senior level of management has an MBA in EVERY type of organization, not just marketing.</p>