<p>One thing I found: if you do look at job postings, don’t even pay attention to majors listed (except the obvious ones like nursing jobs, engineering jobs, etc). The worst thing that can happen if you apply to a company that has a list of majors that doesn’t include yours is that they don’t pick you for an interview.</p>
<p>As for what major you choose, I really don’t fall into the camp of “choose a useful major” since honestly, there is no major that fully prepares you for a business job. You WILL need extensive training, and it won’t really matter what your major was after a few months. Take a look at the companies that recruit at your school and whether you are eligible to apply (for example, some universities will have recruitment for engineers only, excluding anyone who is not in their school of engineering) and you will know who you have a good shot at working for, and then figure out a major that you are good at.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, you can turn any major into something useful, but you need to be smart about it. If you major in, say, sociology, you can make yourself more marketable by tying in some statistics with some of your big assignments. Learn business applications like Excel (learn the formulas, figure out how to do some basic VBA) or SPSS (that’s a statistical analysis tool) so that you have something to talk about in interviews. Most importantly, don’t mess around… while your GPA isn’t the most important thing ever, chances are that it is going to be a big key about whether you get an interview at company X.</p>