BOL level 3 & 4 / 2-3 years
Office & Management
Indispensable jack-of-all-trades
You are customer-oriented, think three steps ahead and always keep your promises. Management can rely on you! This work often comes with deadlines, so it’s important that you’re stress-resistant.
Information about the training
Werken of doorleren na de opleiding?
As a management support specialist, you can work for many companies or organizations. Whether you’re talking about a department store, amusement park, garbage processor, school, employment agency, timber company, municipality or ministry, they often all need a management assistant.
In addition, after completing your Office & Management degree, you can move on to various higher professional education programmes.
Structure of the training
As an Office & Management specialist, you often work for managers and directors. You draw up minutes, make reports, schedule meetings and organize small events, conferences or trips. A good management support specialist takes the lead in the organization and planning and is proactive. In short: a varied profession in which you are the first point of contact for a management! You will learn, among other things:
- Conversation and negotiation techniques.
- Organizing meetings and trips.
- Create schedules.
- Monitor deadlines.
- Receiving visitors.
- Writing texts in English and Dutch.
- Reporting and taking minutes.
- Maintaining website, social media and intranet.
- Processing financial data in a (project) administration.
- Processing invoices and expense claims easily.
- Checking simple contracts with suppliers.
Internship
As a student at MBO Westland, we will put you in touch with the business world as soon as possible. This brings knowledge, experience and your professional attitude together directly. In our opinion, this will make you the very best! Apart from that, you will also do an internship. You do this at a recognized training company. You are responsible for finding an internship company.
10-week modules
You will learn with us in modules of ten weeks. In each module, you will be introduced to a new theme, in which you will gain broad knowledge and
Modules van 10 weken
You will learn with us in modules of ten weeks. In each module, you will be introduced to a new theme, where you will gain broad knowledge and experience. Examples of themes are ‘The customer’ or ‘The market’. Around that theme, you will learn the theory and the necessary skills such as: entrepreneurship, critical thinking and personal leadership (soft skills). For each theme, you will have to deal with guest speakers from the business world, company visits or you will do an assignment at one of our apprenticeships. In this way, you develop important skills and your professional attitude: that is the desired attitude that an employer requires from an employee. What you learn, you immediately apply in the business world!
Create the course that suits you
Our courses consist of a basic part, a profile part and a number of elective parts. With electives you can broaden or deepen your education. You can even take modules from other economics courses that appeal to you. Or you can speed up. For example, have you already acquired certain necessary skills through work experience? Then together we will look at what that means for your learning path. With us, you are in charge of your own learning process!
Learning is not just something you do in the classroom
The nice thing about learning something new isn’t just that you grow as a person. When you study with us, we encourage you in every way possible to become the best. How you learn with us varies: of course you learn in the classroom and from apprenticeships. You will also learn from home (digitally) where you work independently or in groups on assignments.
Personal guidance
During the training, a lot of attention is paid to personal guidance. This is done, among other things, through conversations with study career counsellors. But you can also spar with lecturers or fellow students. Good guidance gives you the opportunity to get the most out of your education. There is also room for solving problems you encounter. We’re here for you!
Admission Requirements / Required Prior Education
You can start a middle management course (level 4) if you have one of the following prerequisites:
- diploma vmbo framework vocational learning pathway, mixed learning pathway, theoretical learning pathway or equivalent;
- MBO level 2 diploma (basic vocational training);
- MBO level 3 diploma (vocational training);
- Certificate of transition from 3 havo / vwo to year 4;
- other diploma or certificate recognised by the government on the basis of a ministerial regulation.
Skills
As an Office & Management specialist, you are the support and anchor of the management. Perhaps your most important task is to keep an overview. In this profession, the following skills and traits are important:
- Stress resistance.
- Good communication skills.
- Reliability.
- Good in the Dutch and English language.
- Ability to work accurately.
- Be representative.
How much does the training cost?
The cost of the training depends on your age. Every year, the Minister of Education adjusts the tuition fees. The amounts below apply to the 2023/2024 academic year.
Costs BOL under the age of 18
Are you younger than 18 at the beginning of the academic year (1 August)? Then you don’t pay tuition.
Costs BOL older than 18 years
Are you 18 years or older at the beginning of the academic year (1 August)? Then the tuition fee is € 1357,-.
Are you 18+ or will you be 18 soon? Then you can get a student grant, a student travel product and perhaps a supplementary grant.
More information about the tuition fee can be found on rijksoverheid.nl.
Other mandatory costs
For the entire course, you pay about 430 euros for books and licenses. You will also take a number of electives within the programme. The costs for the teaching materials of the electives vary from 0 euros to 75 euros per elective.
Voluntary costs
To be able to participate in excursions you pay about 40 euros.