Advertising

Advertising majors use their expertise to combine their communications and persuasion skills to help positively portray and sell an organization, product, or idea. The field is highly competitive and successful majors must learn to hone their persuasive skills, time and resource management capabilities, creative intuition, budget development tactics, and collaborative personalities. Those who foray into advertising also typically have a strong sense for visual aesthetics and imagination. Advertising majors take classes in English, mathematics, advertising, public relations, psychology, marketing, and management. These skills will help them to build the knowledge base they need to create meaningful and effective promotional items that will help to create a positive image for the product they are selling.

Advertising majors are typically those who love to work with others to create something meaningful. Those who love to find ways to communicate ideas with the public would do well in advertising, as they will work with organizations to come up with effective campaigns. Majors can work in radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and a host of other media. They can hold a number of titles, including account executive, advertising manager, sales representative, public relations specialist, and creative director. All of these advertising positions allow advertising majors to flex their creativity muscles to help promote a product and is a great way to marry imaginative thinking, artistic vision, and business.