Featured Alumni

I am Franco Chavez, a Peruvian student from Lima on the Associate Degree Program at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA.

I always asked myself why there were so many salesmen that couldn’t sell or why there were so many salesmen that have this superficial interest in you because deep inside they are thinking of something else? At least a couple of times, I’ve encountered some salesman in such a bad mood that I felt sad about it. While doing this apprenticeship, I realized that it really is hard, if not impossible, to sell a product that you have no interest in. If all these salesmen had at least some minimal interest in what they were selling, their jobs would be so much easier.

From the very first moment my apprenticeship supervisor told me about Vibrant Life as a site for my sales apprenticeship, I was very interested. I like all subjects about nutrition and exercising. So I had good affinity with the product. The vitamins and creams were a great product for me to sell, because I knew that by selling them I was in some way helping the buyers to improve their health.

So I personally think that these two ingredients are basic to getting a sale: 1) interest or affinity in the product you are selling and 2) interest in the person that you are selling the product to. This is applicable to anything that you want to sell.

The HCA is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing apprenticeships and internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.  I am currently on the Marketing Apprenticeship.

I am Mary Beth Shields and American student taking individual courses at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA. I just completed the Ethics for Business Survival course.

I took this course with little to no understanding of ethics (that is, how they apply to an individual or how they apply in a business). Not only do I have a clearer understanding, I know how to handle situations on every level. I can act ethically, morally and know when and why to apply justice.

The supervisors were all patient, understanding and extremely helpful. They listened to what I had to say and directed me to the information. I learned techniques for demonstration that really helped in understanding concepts. This was an excellent course and I recommend it to business professionals and individuals.

Hubbard College of Administration is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing apprenticeships and internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.

I did my Marketing Apprenticeship at Fresh Aire Duct Cleaning.

This was such a fun apprenticeship that I enjoyed so much and I learned a lot about the subject of Marketing. Now I can promote and sell anything to the WORLD!!

First of all I needed to know about the product very well in order to sell it or promote it. If you don’t know about your product very well you can’t make any promo piece for it. You can’t let the other people know about it. You can’t sell it. Before I started this apprenticeship I wasn’t aware about the air duct cleaning industry at all. So I needed to learn about it from the beginning and it was very interesting.

I went to the actual job site and observe the air duct cleaning service. I even went up to the attic with one of the employees and took some pictures of the employee who was cleaning the main air duct system with his tools. Now I know the air duct cleaning procedure very well. It was such a valuable experience for me.

Through this apprenticeship I realized something pretty cool. With the tech I learned from the Marketing course, I can promote anything and everything if I want to! I can get the result very easily, without having any problem. I can create want for any kind of product, from anybody! The tech is very simple and amazing.

I designed a promo piece based on the survey result and the owner of the company liked it very much. They printed 10,000 copies of it for their promo campaign. One of the sales ladies started using my survey result when she was closing the sale over the phone. After a week, she achieved the highest statistics for weekly GI of home air duct cleaning!

I really enjoyed this apprenticeship. Even though I’m an apprentice, it was very nice to see the humongous effect I created on the actual business, using my newly attained Marketing abilities. This increased my confidence concerning my knowledge. If you look at the world you will see a lot of misunderstood technology, promo pieces and PR campaigns. I’m sure that my products are more effective than some current successful marketing companies and will continue to improve my skills in the years to come!

Hiro Suganuma

By Bryant Brackett, an American student at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA.
Where to begin?  How to Get Along with Others is my first apprenticeship. At first I was apprehensive about doing an apprenticeship, but was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. Although the courses are great and awesome, it’s the apprenticeships that provide the proof that what one is learning actually works.  The experience of the apprenticeships releases any and all doubt about the workability of what you are studying. That type of validation is what a student like me needs to continue studying and learning. I am now more eager to go through courses and as a byproduct of this increasing confidence in the applicability of what I learn, I am more curious and interested in what I’m being asked to study. The courses offered here are real business, the kind of business insights and tools that I don’t think I would learn anywhere else.

The HCA is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.  I am currently wrapping up the How to Get Along with Others apprenticeship.

By Shannon Lavenia from Los Angeles, California on the Continuing Education Program for her career education at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA. Shannon is the owner of Lavenia Enterprises, LLC.

While on the “Executive Tools” course, I split with a business partner. While this could have been devastating, I was able to make the decision because I had a greater understanding of good business practices; I was empowered.

I immediately started to attract new business and suddenly found myself inundated with more business than I thought I could handle. So, I sat down with my husband (at the “Productivity Workshop” here at Hubbard College of Administration) and worked out my Organizing Board. I also brought two of my staff with me to the Workshop. They were totally blown away with the information and began immediately applying it. Using the newly constructed organizing board, I identified where we were missing staff and hired them.

With the tools gained in the “Executive Tools” course, I began hatting, training on duties and responsibilities of one’s position, my staff and putting the organization lines in. As a consequence, our production went up. Everyone is working together well and is eager to do a great job. All of this occurred over a four-week period, which would be absolutely astounding to most people. But, with the Hubbard Administrative Technology, it doesn’t take a lot of time to implement organization and increase production, it just takes knowing what to do and how to use the tools of management.  We are monitoring our statistics, a number or amount compared to an earlier number and amount of the same thing, applying the proper improvement formula for the determined operating condition, and enjoying the increased income that it is bringing.

I recommend this course to any business owner or executive who wants to get production up and keep it up while maintaining a happy, successful staff.

Hubbard College of Administration is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing apprenticeships and internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.

I am Greg Lewis, an American executive from Los Angeles, California on the Continuing Education Program as part of my career education at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA.

There are some terrific principles in the “How to Effectively Handle Work” course that any manager or business owner can use to help his or her employees that are having trouble on the job or are simply stuck in mediocrity even if the employees don’t realize it.

Following and implementing these methods will make happy employees, teams, and departments. Furthermore, these techniques support overall harmonious and profitable business success for many years to come.

This stuff is not complicated but it sure works like a charm.

The HCA is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.

When I began the “How to Get Things Done” course as part of my career education, I didn’t quite know what to expect. You would think that the title would say it all but there is much more involved than one might guess. The material extensively refers to intention and getting your intention across in order to get actions completed. The course is built on such a comfortable gradient that it was easy to watch my intention growing as the course progressed. Actual growth in ability during study helps facilitate taking what has been learned and applying it to the outside world. It’s amazing what you can do with intention alone.

I also didn’t realize how great of an environment the college is. This course in particular requires a lot of drills and multiple partners to get through them. Unlike other colleges, people at the Hubbard college  are very quick to work and help one another, as if it is everyone’s goal to get each other through the programs. It’s refreshing to see that people care about more than just their situation and improving it on a single individual level. That is the biggest thing I learned through this course. In order for your organization to run it takes the willingness to work together even if you don’t receive immediate compensation. You will achieve success only with strong intention of doing so.

The HCA is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.  I am currently taking the “How to Get Along with Others” apprenticeship.

By Bryant Brackett, an American student at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA.

I just completed the “Basic Study Manual” course as part of my continued career education and was thrilled to discover there are actual proven methods in overcoming many learning obstacles.  I’m excited to be able to share what I’ve learned with co-workers, friends and family.

If the Basic Study Manual was used in the various school systems throughout the country, the children themselves could take back the educational process to make it work for them, instead of against them.  I am certain we would see drop-out rates dramatically reduced.

Let’s make this learning tool available to the public!

Hubbard College of Administration is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing apprenticeships and internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.

By Cathy Flanagan from Scottsdale, Arizona on the Continuing Education Program at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA. Cathy is the Managing Director of Polaris Media Group.

I am Eiman Rahnama, an Iranian student from Tehran on the Consultant Levels program at the Hubbard College of Administration (HCA), Los Angeles, CA.

Have you ever run into a bug (slang for a stop or snarl in the way of production) and didn’t know how to handle it? Or, you tried to handle it but it was not the correct handling? Well, I have the answer for you! This course “Professional Product Debug Course” has all the tools an executive, manager, or even an employee needs to handle these stops in their production area.

In my life, I have encountered many stops (bugs) and a lot of times I didn’t know how to handle them so I either gave up or had to go through tremendous effort to “debug” and handle it.

Imagine, you are trying to set up an organization and suddenly you hit a stop, nothing is happening, your staff can’t produce; some of your staff are goofing off and slacking etc. What do you do at this point? Do you stop? Do you hire more personnel? Do you fire everyone and start all over again? What should you do? The most basic thing that you MUST do is inspect the bugged area. Observe what’s happening, look don’t listen to what your staff have to say, find out for yourself. You may be surprised at what you find! After you do this step, sometimes you will find the snarl and be able to handle it right there and production will start to happen! If not then you need to come to Hubbard College of Administration to start your career education and take this course! This course contains a checklist that you can apply to pinpoint the bugs in an area and indicate how to handle them!

I would like to know, what are some other ways executives try to handle the bugs in their area, and does it always work and give results? With the technology in this course, you can have this certainty.

Hubbard College of Administration is a self-paced business school that offers an exceptional business administration curriculum, unique learning technology, life-changing apprenticeships and internships, assistance with job placement and a lifetime warranty for students.  My next course is the “Data Series Evaluator’s Course.”

Having lived in a society where people mostly think in problems rather than solutions, the “Data Series Evaluator’s Course” I just finished was a real breath of fresh air.

It has given me a whole new look on situations I encounter in life.

To give an example of how people would benefit from this a lot:
A crime is committed in a neighborhood, people say the reason it happens is because it’s a bad neighborhood. This does not AT ALL lead to a handling of this.

Way too often people will accept the first thing they hear from someone else, when they themselves ask “Why?” or “How come?” Whatever they hear from someone is now their reason for the crime and for them the problem seems handled.

But leaving that area unhandled FOR REAL makes it escalate and ends up destroying that neighborhood.

In a company this would be horrible. If people aren’t looking at the real cause of things, it will grow bigger and bigger and do the organization in.

Imagine yourself in the middle of a fight between friends, you say “Oh, that’s what friends do.” A week later they can’t stand each other’s face, and now they start complaining about the other to you. And you’re stuck in the middle not being able to peacefully hang out with them without complaint.

Friends can fight, but talking things out can solve most things. If that doesn’t work and things persist, there is another reason why this happened. Most likely there is another party who’s spreading lies to each friend about the other.

So for me this doesn’t just enable me to solve my own problems, it makes me able to solve problems in a company or a group. In fact, this data empowers me to solve pretty much all the things I’ll encounter in my life.

This was part of my Consultant Training Levels, for my associate degree program, which follows the Associate of Applied Science Degree in Management and Administration at the Hubbard College of Administration. I can honestly say that it’s the most valuable tool I’ve learned to use in my career education.

Jerome Garot
jeromegarot@gmail.com