MBAs and Certifications With Brooks Johnson (with transition tips!) - a podcast by Ryan Sweeney

Overall discussion on MBA and Certifications, what to go after and why?  Conversation revolves around General vs Specific or Hard vs Soft skills.  All coming back to the question, Where are you at in your career?

Covered

1- Brooks' background

2- What do I want to do post military and what do I NOT want to do

3- How to identify your real, true skills- Goodbye to the jack of all trades master of none approach

4- Plan to develop hard skills

5- What is a Project Manager?  What is an Operations Manager?

6- MBA (Pros and Cons)- Why get one (Education, marketability, specialty and networking), quality of program, online or in-person

7- Certifications- Why get them (Marketability, specialty [hard] skill), goals, PMP, Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt, Salesforce certifications discussed

8- Education vs OJT or Projects for Growth

9- 1st Job expectations

10- Importance of Networking

Great discussion!  Enjoy!!!

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