Technical business management assistant (FPE) (Region Bern):
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Is the "Technical Business Management Assistant" course right for me?
The technical businessman is right for me if I fulfill the following requirements:
- have an interest in office work and an entrepreneurial mindset
- Outgoing with organizational talent
- have already completed basic technical or craft training
- Willingness to take on a management function or independence
- Pre-financing of course fees in the amount of approx. CHF 15,000
- Willingness to invest in one to two years of teaching (800 lessons) and self-study (990 hours)
What information about lecturers is important for participants in the Technical Business Management Assistant with Federal Certificate?
According to a survey, the following information about lecturers is most important for participants in the technical business management course with a federal certificate (multiple choices were possible):
- 61 % Subjects
- 58 % Teaching methodology
- 53 % Professional experience of the lecturers
- 49 % Current activity and function in the company
- 44 % Training and further education of lecturers
- 31 % Video with a teaching sequence
- 28 % current portrait image
- 22 % Video with introduction of the lecturers
- 20 % personal ratings
- 16 % Successes to date
- 7 % Linking with social media profiles (Xing, LinkedIn)
- 6 % Hobbies
Technischer Kaufmann difficulty level: How difficult is the Technischer Kaufmann exam and what is the failure rate for Technischer Kaufmann?
Since 1991, there have been over 13,000 successful candidates for the Technischer Kaufmann examination and it is one of the most widely taken Federal Professional Examinations. However, the difficulty of the Technischer Kaufmann exam should not be underestimated. Candidates have to spend four examination days on the federal examination and CHF 1,800 (3 days written and one day oral). According to statistical data from Anavant, the Swiss Association of Technical Executives, the average pass rate for the technical salesperson exam over the last five years is around 67.4 %. This means that a good two thirds of participants pass the Federal Professional Examination.
This means that the Technical Business Administrator failure rate over the last five years is over 33% - just under a third. In 2018, the pass rate for all federal vocational diplomas was just under 65% - so the difficulty level of the technical salesperson should not be disregarded. The degree of difficulty of the Technical Business Administrator is therefore slightly above the average for all Federal Professional Examinations - those in the fields of journalism, transportation, horticulture, nursing, therapy, rehabilitation, electricity and energy are more difficult. The challenges in avoiding this technical salesperson failure rate certainly lie in the breadth of knowledge required and the new activity in the working environment. The latter requires computer skills, new ways of thinking and knowledge of economic relationships. Thanks to a subsidy from the federal government, participants receive up to 50% of their training costs back after passing the exam (regardless of the outcome). However, those who do not pass the Technical Business Management Assistant exam can retake it.
What can you do as a technical merchant?
A technical business management assistant has the following qualifications:
- Generalist with previous technical knowledge or commercial background
- Coordination and management of specialist and/or interdisciplinary teams and projects
- Processing entrepreneurial issues in a technical and business environment
- Acting in various roles that require business know-how and technical background knowledge
- Company management, management of a team or as support for company management - especially in the industrial/commercial sector
- Acting in accordance with economic, social and ecological principles
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