The best advice I can give to BSBA students nowadays is to pay attention to details. This habit, if mastered, will greatly assist the grad after he or she enters the world of business.
Few things are more annoying to college professors than students who simply don't take the time or make the effort to prepare assignments correctly. Students are expected to follow guidelines in the syllabus and to submit assignments on time and in the correct format. Not a day late. Not some
thing that is "close" to what the professor wanted. It must be done right.
My personal pet peeve is misspelled words. Why is it that young adults can't remember "i before e, except after c" and similar rules? And why do they think that they can create a possessive version of the pronoun it by adding an apostrophe and the letter s? The word it's means "it is"; it is not a possessive form of anything. Why don't students use dictionaries if they are unsure about words?
Failing to do assignments correctly and submitting written work with misspelled words are both examples of inattention to details. The student is [in effect] saying, "chill out prof--it's no big deal." Sorry, but it is a big deal!
When I was a teacher, I routinely had students in a strategic planning class prepare 10-slide PowerPoint presentations on a particular topic. Invariably, some students would submit 8 or 9 slides [if they were just plain lazy] or 12 or 13 slides [if they really didn't know the material and were using the shotgun approach]. The guidance was for 10 slides. Why can't they get it right?
I am sure these same students are bewildered and angry when they get marginal or unsatisfactory performance appraisals after the enter the business world. Well, I've got a news flash for you: it is because you don't pay attention to details.
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