<p>I'm a Junior Marketing Major, but given the terrible conditions in the job market right now, I'm considering a double major in Accounting because it would open up more job opportunities. Personally, I'm not that interested in Accounting, nevertheless, it's still a more stable profession, and is highly in demand right now. Should I go for it?</p>
<p>No. You should pursue marketing if it interests you. If you don’t like accounting, you’re not going to have a terribly successful or fulfilling career. Furthermore, employers are likely to see that you aren’t that interested in accounting. Also the double major could show that you are indecisive (which you are). I got grilled on just that during an interview when I was in undergrad.</p>
<p>You’d be better off spending your time reaching out to employers and networking.</p>
<p>BTW, it’s not like accounting is completely immune from these tough economic times. I have friends at Big 4 firms who have been laid off in the past couple of months.</p>
<p>Hopefully you can have a career you’ll love. But truth be told, at many schools marketing majors don’t get decent paying, stable jobs. I would go to your career center and see how grads with each major have done in the job market in recent years. Look at all the business majors. I’m seeing lots of schools where the only majors where grads are consistently getting solid jobs are engineering and accounting.</p>
<p>For some the guarantee of a decent salary and job security is more important than it is to others. After looking at the facts you’ll be in a better position to decide.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing Vector, But it really is disappointing that in job fairs, there aren’t much demand for marketing majors, most of them are actually sales jobs (which I do not want).
Lot’s of companies are looking for accounting majors.</p>
<p>Which should I choose? Interest vs Job/Financial Security</p>
<p>As hmom5 stated you need to get employment statistics from your school’s career services. Furthermore, you should talk with your marketing professors to see if any of them have advice on the best way to land a job. Also, if there is a marketing organization on campus, you need to be very involved in that as many of the opportunities may come through there. If marketing positions are recruited for at your school someone (professor/advisor) should have contacts that could help you.</p>
<p>Essentially, you are goin to need to be very proactive in your job search. That alone will probably put you ahead of most of your fellow classmates. If you can not land a marketing job, I would consider graduate school (check their employment statistics prior to enrollment).</p>
<p>However, if you feel you could enjoy accounting then that is an option.</p>
<p>Here are the stats:
Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:
Consulting: 2 %
Finance/Accounting: 47 %
General Management: 10 %
Human Resources: 3 %
Management Information Systems: 8 %
Marketing/Sales: 21 %
Operations/Production: 6 %
Logistics/Transportation: 2 %
Other: 1 %</p>
<p>Grads accepted jobs in following industries:
Accounting: 20 %
Consumer Products/Retail: 16 %
Consulting Services: 3 %
Financial Services: 27 %
Government/Education: 4 %
Pharma/Biotech/Health: 3 %
Manufacturing: 9 %
Media/Entertainment: 8 %
Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
Real Estate: 1 %
Sports/Leisure: 0 %
Technology/Science: 4 %
Non-Profit: 2 %
Transportation: NA %
Utilities: NA %
Other: NA </p>
<p>Result: Accounting 47% Marketing+Sales-21% (I won’t consider sales)</p>
<p>What you want to look at is the job title for each grads. Many schools have this info, others don’t. Search here for A_Mom and Cal Poly. She has posted lists for all of their business majors.</p>
<p>What you’ll see at many schools is that outside of accounting, many business majors have taken jobs in ‘retail’ or ‘food service’.</p>
<p>Here again,</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.careers.calpoly.edu/search_2007.php?yr=2007%20-%202008[/url]”>https://www.careers.calpoly.edu/search_2007.php?yr=2007%20-%202008</a></p>
<p>I agree with what Vectorwega told you. It only makes sense to go with marketing. And if you take the initiative, you could definitely get the kind of marketing job you want. You should realize that you will not get far in accounting if you are not interested in it.</p>
<p>I agree that you will not get far in something you aren’t interested in, but if you don’t like sales, maybe you aren’t interested in the kinds of jobs marketing degrees bring?</p>
<p>I mean, there’s a reason it says marketing/SALES on that list and marketing is all about selling things. If you don’t like sales, it seems like marketing isn’t the major for you anyway.</p>
<p>Maybe advertising?</p>
<p>There are plenty of marketing jobs (not necessarily saying opportunities, but jobs) that are not sales jobs. A marketing degree will prepare one of these jobs (much morso than for a sales job imo). </p>
<p>BTW, I know that you had previously expressed interest in advertising which is why I mentioned possibly exploring graduate school.</p>