BTS : Assistant Manager

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BTS Assistant Manager

Qualities and skills of an Assistant Manager

A sense of organisation, autonomy, and discretion. Foreign language skills, for both communicating with other firms, for example, as well as bulding long-term relationships, is of additional benefit.

Objectives of the academic program

This academic program, principally based on the acquisition of organisational and communicative skills, treats all the support or delegating activities that an assistant manager will need in order to manage in his or her professional life. In addition to a complete knowledge of the world of a business, of management and of economic activity within a context of multi-cultural relationships, the student will learn how to anticipate, to innovate and to propose.

Career possibilities for those who have earned a BTS in Assistant Manager degree

The holder of a BTS in Assistant manager will work for a manager or a group of managers, for whom he or she assumes and intermediary role, or perhaps even mediation, with regards to internal and external relations, including in an international context. He might be made to manage a team of secretaries or to coordinate a project team. All types and sizes of organisations have the need to hire assistant managers: (companies, associations, administrations, other public and private organisations, domestic and international). Their actual job titles are extremely varied depending on professional convention, on the organisation for which the holder of the diploma works, and of the relative weight of the delegated activities as well as the degree of responsibility. The following are some examples:
- Assistant to the President/Managing Director, Team Assistant , Group Project Assistant,
- Human Resources Assistant , Sales Assistant, Communications Assistant¦

Description of the BTS in Assistant Manager academic programme

General culture and expression
  • Foreign language: A
  • Foreign language: B (the student has the option of studying a third foreign language: C )
Economics
  • The foundation of economic principles
  • Economic functions (uses)
  • The financing of the economy
  • Regulation
  • International economic relations
  • The global economy
Business administration
  • Complementary approaches to the world of the company
  • Power and influence
  • Information and the taking of decisions in the world of the company
  • The management of activities (commercial, productive, logistical and supplies, financial, the management of human resources)
  • The organisation of activities
  • Ethics in the world of the company
Law
  • Law and economic activity
  • The legal context of the activity of the company
  • Economic activity and fundamental legal mechanisms
  • The company and commercial activity
  • Personal relationships within the company
  • The legal relations of the company with regards to the consumer
  • Business-to-business relations
Workshops
Job training in a firm (12 weeks)

Recommendations for further academic options:

Third year of university studies devoted to specialisation and preparation for a DEES degree (a European Degree of Advanced Studies):
- DEES Assistant Manager in Human Resources,
- DEES Management and Administration of Small to Medium Size Businesses.
Other possibilities: see additional options that the "Institute of Business and Management" offer at: www.institut-commerce-gestion.com

Admissions

Candidates must possess a Baccalauriat ("Bac"(a French degree) or its equivalent (a high school diploma).
For those candidates who do not possess a "Bac" or high school diploma: admissions is based on one's application and interview.