Business economists CHE: Success stories and experiences of graduates:

Short success stories from graduates and students of the "Business Administration" course are published here on an ongoing basis.

Alexander Theine, Client Advisor, Executive Director, Team Head UK & Ireland at J. Safra Sarasin Bank, part-time lecturer, trainer with Federal Diploma of Higher Education

Alexander Theine: From bank apprenticeship to team leader, trainer and lecturer

Alexander Theine

With the successful completion of his banking apprenticeship at UBS AG in 2000, Alexander Theine laid the foundation for his career, which he has been driving forward ever since. First as an Assistant in Client Advisory in the Private Banking UK & Ireland sector at UBS, then as an Associate Director. After moving to J. Safra Sarasin Bank, he became a Director in Client Advisory and is now a Client Advisor, Executive Director and Team Head UK & Ireland, where he is responsible for clients from the UK and Ireland.

Business economist CHE and MBA

In order not only to be successful on the job market, but also to further develop his personality, Alexander Theine decided to complete continuing education, further training and an MBA from the University of Bedforshire, which was conducted by the Marketing & Business School Zurich MBSZ. These courses also made him realize that he had further interests and skills, so he subsequently successfully completed the courses to become a lecturer in the minor subject CHE and a trainer with a federal certificate.

Theine was particularly impressed by the structure of the MBSZ's continuing education, further training course for CHE business economists, which did not provide for each subject as an individual discipline, but rather as an interlocking of all learning content into an overall concept.

Contact information: Alexander Theine,Linkedin profile

Martin Farner, Operations Manager and Business Economist CHE

Martin Farner: Operations Manager After-Sales Management

Martin Farner

At the age of 25, the trained car mechanic took over the management of a car workshop and worked in this position for eight years. During this time, Martin Farner started his first continuing education, further training, which earned him a federal certificate as an automotive diagnostician. Through this work, he discovered his great interest in customer service and accounting, so in 2010 he decided to undertake continuing education, further training in business administration CHE at the MBSZ.

Responsibility for around 40 employees

This training as a qualified business economist CHE enabled Farner to take over the management of two Audi operations at AMAG, where a total of 11 employees report directly to him in after-sales management. He has second-level management responsibility for a further 25 to 30 mechanics, car valets and other employees who report directly to the workshop manager.

In addition to managing employees, as a business economist CHE he is also responsible for their development, conducting job interviews and negotiating target agreements with importers. Martin Farner also monitors the key business figures, carries out AFS advertising on a smaller scale, deals with complaints, increasing customer satisfaction and long-term customer loyalty.

Clear advantage thanks to CHE training

Martin Farner was able to significantly increase his market value with his continuing education, further training at the College of Higher Education (CHE) and, as a business economist, has a clear advantage over other employees at the same level. In addition to the business management and economics content of the training, it was above all the subjects on financing & investment and accounting from which he can still benefit greatly in his day-to-day work today. Equipped with enhanced skills and specialist knowledge, Martin Farner is happy to continue taking on new challenges and can well imagine taking on more responsibility or even management in a company.

Contact information:Xing profile Martin Farner

Experiences and reviews of Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch

• 95% of former students would complete the Business Administration CHE course again
• 74% state that this continuing education, further training has helped them a lot or very much in their career
• Free text answers:
  • Positive: The broad knowledge, the exchange with other students. Negative: The high proportion of men on the course
  • Provides a broad knowledge base
  • Good: Diversity
  • Good practical relevance
  • All-round training without having to specialize at an early stage
  • Liked: practical, generalist, varied. Disliked: Exam type, sometimes a lot of memorization
  • Business economist CHE is a good generalist training program
  • Positive: very extensive range of subjects. Negative: soft skills subjects were too vague, the topic of "purchasing" was not covered, but has now been integrated into the course
  • Practical teaching with very good lecturers
  • Good: the broad-based generalist training, getting to know fellow students, some from other sectors, networking
  • Good: it was very practice-oriented / Not good: some of the lecturers were of poor quality
  • General management training
  • Most of the teachers were able to pass on their practical experience to us very well
  • Good: practical learning, contacts / network that I can still fall back on today, connections between business and politics
  • Less good: the practical points. Effective applications. Real-life applications / Good: understanding business contexts,
  • Theoretical knowledge of general management
  • The wide-ranging training. The opportunity to continue working in different sectors and not be forced onto "one track".
  • Positive: The practical relevance was there at all times / Negative: I found some subjects superfluous
  • I like the broad knowledge transfer at the Business Administration CHE.

Numerous job advertisements on job platforms in Switzerland often look for people who have a degree in Business Administration CHE. This demand on the job market naturally reinforces the positive experiences and evaluations of graduates.

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