Top 10 apps for MBA recruiters

Are you a MBA recruiter with an Apple iDevice?  If you are, then you are holding a powerful recruiting tool in your hand.  Whether you are jotting down notes about candidates, looking for lodging and dining when you travel, giving a presentation on-campus, or just unwinding after a long day of work, here are 10 mobile apps for every MBA recruiter:

10. Global Focus - And finally, if you're looking for a better way to recruit on the campus of the world's top b-schools, try our Global Focus mobile app. The Global Focus mobile app lets you minimize the paper chase by putting the world’s best talent at your fingertips. Access the resumes and profiles of candidates at our partner schools and follow-up with potential hires directly from the app. 

9. Flight Control - At the end of a long day of trying to land the perfect candidate, you need to unwind and have a little fun.  Flight Control is that perfect diversion.  Use your finger to guide planes to the runway for a smooth landing -- but make sure two planes don’t have intersecting flight paths! 

8. Keynote - Have to give a presentation about your company to career services on the fly?  Keynote is the ideal presentation companion.  It allows for full customization of your presentation and some eye-catching templates to hold their attention.  It's also a remote to control your Mac presentations while on stage.

7. Google Maps - From satellite images from space to ground-level street views, Google Maps has the world mapped out.  This app is the perfect tool for finding your way around campus or in any city.  It also provides spoken driving directions, color-coded real-time traffic conditions, and vector-based maps (smooth at any size).  Google Maps will help you get where you are going, again and again.

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9 reasons recruiters use Global Focus®

Global Focus is more than jaust a resume database. It is a complete recruitment management tool.

Each year, employers use Global Focus to perform a multitude of recruitment tasks. And every year, the Global Focus tool goes through upgrades and feature enhancements that add to the recruiters arsenal. In 2012, Global Focus users:

• printed 1,066,436 resumes
• exported contact info for 264,273 candidates
• analyzed 94,155 job-seeker profile details
• performed 91,887 advanced searches
• sent 60,307 emails to candidates
• shared 8,702 notes about candidates  
• posted 2,484 MultiPost jobs
• conducted 12 live virtual interviews
• conducted 4 pre-recorded virtual interviews   

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Top 10 reasons to move beyond old-fashioned resume books

For more than twenty years the team at MBA Focus has created innovative ways to advance the way employers recruit MBA students.

In 2008, MBA Focus and its partner schools decided to move beyond physical paper resume books and create searchable online databases of students In 2009, we launched the MultiPost job distribution tool which not only allowed employers to quickly post jobs at their core schools but also expand to include schools outside their network. And in 2011, we added virtual interviewing tools to the recruiters' arsenal.

Today, we continue to innovate and create new tools which allow recruiters to recruit better, virtually, right at their desks. And now, all of these tools exist in one complete MBA recruitment system, Global Focus®. Here are ten things you can do with this Global Focus® MBA recruitment system that you can’t do with individual resume books:

• 1. Access one recruiting system and eliminate the need for multiple links and logins.  
• 2. Search across all MBA students and alumni of the selected schools throughout the entire academic season.
• 3. Improve collaboration and efficiency within your team with candidate notes and flags.
• 4. Send and track personalized batch emails to candidates to invite them to company presentations, schedule phone screens and interviews, drive employment branding messages, email job descriptions and encourage application via your corporate website
• 5. Set up notification emails to automatically search for new candidates matching your needs and email you when new candidates register.
• 6. Track activity by an individual or for your entire recruiting team. 
• 7. Make more informed decisions with enhanced reporting tools.
• 8. Use our new JobMatch technology to automatically find candidates that match your job postings.
• 9. Schedule and conduct pre-recorded and live video-based interviews
• 10. Attend our annual Connections Conference with leading MBA recruitment and career service professionals from top schools and companies.

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What's new in Global Focus 3.0

We're excited to announce the release of the all-new Global Focus® 3.0. Based on feedback from the world's leading MBA employers, this newly redesigned version makes it easier than ever for recruiters to search, evaluate, and connect with top business leadership.

Featuring a Search-Connect-Report format, Global Focus 3.0 provides recruiters with a more streamlined, intuitive experience. Here are just a few of the new navigation, design, and feature enhancements:

• Virtual Interviewing: Conduct live or pre-recorded interviews powered by InterviewStream®
• OCR Integration: Manage school logins and events with direct and convenient access now at over 20 of our GTS partner schools
• JobMatch: Automatically match your job postings to job-seeking candidates in the database.
• Global Proximity Search: Enhanced proximity searches are now available for candidates currently residing outside the United States
• Email "On Behalf Of": Email candidates and forward resumes to colleagues from a specified email address
• Enhanced Keyword Search: Keyword search now allows for the use of “&” symbols. And the addition of “Optional” and “Must Match” filters improve keyword search results
• Candidate Profile Updates: Resume previews are now 2x larger
• Search Agent Emails: Links within search agent emails now deliver only the new matching candidates in your search results
• Notes Management: Track candidate notes for a complete history of note activity by an individual or all company Global Focus users
• New Schools: 15 new partner schools including HEC Paris, IE, IESE, Texas A&M, Yale

To see a complete breakdown of what's new and different in Global Focus 3.0 check out the SlideRocket presentation: Your Guide to Global Focus 3.0


Interested in getting a closer look at these new features? A member of the MBA Focus team would be happy to set up a personal one-on-one demo. In addition to live group trainings and expanded online help, we've recorded an on-demand training video to help recruiters get up to speed quickly.

Here is a sneak speak of the new features and improvements:



We're excited to give this new, state-of-the-art Global Focus 3.0 to our innovative network of recruiters! If you're interested in joining that network or would like to schedule a demo of the product, please contact us.

Four new partner schools from outside the United States

Recruiters around the world are widening their search and casting their nets into a growing pool of international talent. At the same time, demand for business leadership talent with experience outside the United States has increased exponentially. And as the demand for global talent increases, the world's #1 choice for virtual MBA recruitment technology continues to expand its global network.

"The competition for global MBA talent has never been so intense," says Tony Somers, Director, MBA Career Management Center, HEC School of Management. "Our new partnership with MBA Focus will give employers access to the elite management talent at HEC Paris and give our students access to an exclusive network of multinational corporations."

For more than two decades, top-ranked MBA programs -- and the companies that employ their students and alumni -- look to MBA Focus for advanced recruiting technology solutions, best practices, thought leadership, and innovation.

Today, leading MBA employers can search an aggregated database including students and alumni from 74 top-ranked business schools, including 20 MBA programs located outside the United States. Four new international schools have joined the network this year...

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Chances are, you're already working with us

We’re MBA Focus—an exclusive network of 70 top tier graduate business schools. For over twenty years, we have powered the recruitment process for the world’s leading MBA programs.

Now let us show you how to improve your recruiting speed and efficiency with Global Focus®. Gain direct access to 75,000 MBA students and alumni, and quickly identify and connect with your best fit candidates using our advanced search technology.

Have questions about your MBA recruitment efforts? We can help. Contact us for research, best practices, or to find out more about our new virtual interviewing technology.

How companies use Global Focus to recruit top business leadership talent

The Global Focus recruitment management platform gives employers access to top talent, allowing them to:

• Source and identify perfect-fit candidates.
• Increase visibility and market employer brand.
• Personally connect with candidates.
• Streamline outreach and recruiting calendar activities.
• Conduct virtual interviews.
• Post jobs instantly to our vast school network.
• And maintain OFCCP Compliance.

Here is how they used the technology last year:

• 35,000 advanced searches on
• 600,000 specific profile attributes 
• 100,000 resumes viewed on screen
• 200,000 candidates exported to CSV, XML, ATS or email marketing systems
• 850,000 resumes printed to PDF files or paper
• 100,000 emails to candidates sent within the system

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What do MBA employers search for?

More than 1,200 recruiters from 90 leading MBA employers used the Global Focus advanced search capabilities last year to find their perfect candidates. These recruiters are proactively sourcing their next generation of leaders by filtering the database of over 70,000 candidates to their exact specifications, including: function, industry, work authorization, experience, language, diversity, and keywords.

During the past recruiting season, employers selected more than 600,000 profile attributes in over 35,000 advanced searches. The most important profile question was geographic preference -- which was selected in searches nearly 100,000 times. Specific MBA schools was a close second. Followed by specific industry and function experiences. Other graduate degrees and certifications/licenses were the least important attributes.

This is a summary of the most searched-for candidate profile attributes:

1. Geographic Preference  -  98,337
2. MBA School  -  93,059
3. Industry - Experience  -  82,650
4. Function - Experience  -  62,126
5. Function - Preference  -  45,048
6. Industry - Preference  -  41,228
7. Class Year  -  39,295
8. Language Ability  -  34,771
9. Geographic - Work Experience  -  15,245
10. Program  -  12,419
11. Total Years of Work Experience  -  11,683
12. Club Affiliations  -  11,065
13. MBA Concentration  -  4,695
14. Graduation Availability Date  -  4,434
15. Years of Post MBA Work Experience  -  2,624
16. Annual Compensation  -  2,213
17. Undergraduate Major  -  953
18. Function Experience - Internship  -  578
19. Industry Experience - Internship  -  281
20. Other Graduate Degrees  -  118
21. Certifications/Licenses  -  115

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The recruitment model is changing

Even with job boards, online networking, and social media recruiting— employers say they are still missing too many high-potential candidates.

Consider this: Recruiters may literally look at thousands of resumes from thousands of sources while searching for that ideal candidate. The main problem with this data is that it is not standardized; recruiters have to search to find the information they need.

The Global Focus database helps recruiters find exactly what they need by providing a common format for every student enrolled.

All an employer needs to do is choose their desired criteria, whether it be involvement in clubs and activities, geographic preferences, or demonstrated leadership and/or work experience. Search results are returned instantly from the thousands of candidates in the database. Those candidates that most closely match what the employer wants rise to the top of the list, making it easy for the employer to find the most qualified candidates for the job.

Let’s imagine that a large financial corporation needs to hire ten candidates for a finance position.

The example above shows how a recruiter might search the Global Focus database to quickly identify quality candidates. Without Global Focus it would be very difficult to gather, review, and interview the number of high quality candidates needed to make ten formal offers of employment. With Global Focus, recruiters simply search the database and then directly connect with their ideal candidates.

New Global Focus Features Coming Soon

We are excited to announce our new Global Focus 2.3 features and enhancements for the coming academic year:

• Candidate Snapshot - View candidate detail information on a single page
• Expanded Alumni Data - Search expanded employment information
• MultiPost Usage Widget - Manage and view jobs by recruitment area
• Employer Usage Widget - Monitor your team’s use of Global Focus to inform decisions
• Split Search - Search students and alumni separately
• Email Management - Manage and track your marketing email efforts 
• Email Templates - Produce more professional email communications
• School Release Notifications - Receive emails regarding resume availability 
• Knowledgebase Support - Get the most out of Global Focus 
• OCR Integration - Manage school logins and events with direct and convenient access
• Virtual Interviewing - Conduct live interviews, powered by InterviewStream®

Global Focus® is the only recruiting management platform that gives you access to the world’s best MBA talent. Global Focus provides an extensive pipeline of high potential and high performing global talent via our exclusive partnerships with 24 of the world’s 25 top-ranked MBA programs and a total of 60+ graduate business schools.

If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact us at: https://www.mbafocus.com/Products/GlobalFocus/Demo.aspx