Go mobile for timely employment reporting

It's that time of the year again. Your students have completed their resume workshops, attended recruiting events, finished interviews, and are now beginning to receive offers from employers. These offers and employment reports are a crucial part of your annual process. But now that the offers are rolling in, students tend to forget about career services. So how can career service offices stay in touch with students and get this critical information in a timely fashion? Go mobile!

Each new class of MBA students is becoming increasingly millennial...

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A Happy Thanksgiving Day-tabase

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we'd like to thank all of our corporate clients and school partners for your ongoing business and support. And this year, we’d like to give thanks to all of the wonderful job-seeking MBA candidates participating in our database—we enjoy having the opportunity to work with you and we commend you for your academic and professional accomplishments.

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. But did you know that several other places around the world observe similar celebrations? It’s true. Below is a list of countries which celebrate Thanksgiving and the number of candidates in our database who are authorized to work in each of those countries:

• United States: 52,364
• Canada: 1,703
• Germany: 511
• Grenada: ...

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Top 10 social networks to connect with the "New Class" of MBAs

Are you looking for a way to reconnect with MBAs your career service office has lost touch with? Social networks are the best source to find those graduates and rebuild meaningful relationships with them. Try interacting with them via:

1. Facebook: With over 1 billion active users and more than 42 million pages with 10 or more likes, Facebook is the perfect place to connect with MBAs. Your school/program should have its own Facebook page that candidates can “like” and get daily updates on relevant news and events. By creating an official Facebook page for your school, you can easily reach people who are specifically interested in what you have to say.
2. Twitter: Twitter is a proven marketing tool and an effective outreach device. Many schools have a presence on Twitter. And some even have multiple accounts, including an entire recruiter-oriented presence (i.e. @HBSRecruitMBA). Your candidates are already using Twitter to communicate, research, promote and personally brand themselves – you should be doing the same for your school’s/program’s brand. Take a moment each day to tweet about something relevant or interesting.
3. LinkedIn: Where Facebook is considered a more personal space, LinkedIn has been defined as the “professional” social network. Use LinkedIn to connect with students and alumni from your school. You should not only create a LinkedIn group for your program, but also create subgroups for each class year, to better connect (and stay connected) with your program’s job-seeking candidates.
4. Google+: Google+ is the...

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History of MBA Focus

In partnership with the world’s top-ranked graduate business schools, MBA Focus has created the most comprehensive recruiting network available. For more than two decades, these school partners—and the companies that employ their students and alumni—look to us for advanced recruiting technology solutions, best practices, and innovation.

Here is a quick history of MBA Focus:

• 1987 – Company founded to create Computerized Career Services Offices
• 1991 – Pioneering partnership with Harvared Business School to distribute the first searchable MBA CV database
• 1992 – Partnerships with majority of top North American MBA programs and several top European Programs
• 1996 – Created MBA Quick Search recruiter product with all CV’s in one searchable resume database
• 2004 – Launched new Career Management Solution (CMS) with Kellogg School of Management
• 2006 – Hosted first annual Connections Conference
• 2007 – Started to serve all MBA candidate populations including alumni
• 2007 – Publishes white paper on "New Directions in MBA Recruiting"
• 2008 – Hosted first MBACSC Europe Conference
• 2008 – Launched new Global Talent System (GTS) product for MBA career service offices
• 2008 – Publishes white paper on "A Single Path to Hire MBA Talent"
• 2008 – Saved over 75 trees per year by no longer offering printed resume books
• 2009 – Introduced new MultiPost network to distribute jobs to 60+ schools at once
• 2010 – Grew to service over 50,000 job-seeking candidates
• 2011 – Partnered with InterviewStream to integrate virtual interviewing into MBA recruitment process at top b-schools
• 2011 – Launched new www.MBAFocus.com website for employers, schools, and candidates
• 2011 – Expanded focus to high-potential undergraduate talent with Global Focus "U"
• 2012 – Created first Mobile App for candidates to manage MBA recruitment process on-the-go
• 2012 – Hosted first National Energy Forum MBA recruitment event at Houston's Bauer College of Business
• 2012 – Launched the all-new Global Focus 3.0 MBA recruitment product
• 2012 – Announced innovative new JobMatch technology to automatically match job postings with job-seeking candidates

Top 10 things we learned at Connections 2012

Representatives from 24 top business schools and 26 leading MBA employers attended Connections 2012 "The MBA Community: Positive Leadership, Changing Times” hosted by MBA Focus in Columbus, Ohio.

We are very proud that this conference continues to be the premiere event for thought leadership in MBA recruitment. We truly appreciate the ideas, comments, and willingness to share year after year. This kind of rich and open dialogue makes it possible for all of us to succeed.

Below is a list of the top 10 key thoughts, discussion points, and takeaways from the presentations, moderated panels, and keynotes at Connections 2012. Please keep these in mind as you prepare for the upcoming season. Feel free to call or email us with additional thoughts. You can also post your comments below.

1. Video interviewing is perfect for companies seeking international candidates; and for candidates seeking international opportunities
2. Currently 10%-20% of MBAs are placed internationally, but the demand for international candidates/opportunities is increasing.
3. MBA students are already very interested in being global; the next step is helping them with going global.
4. Recruiters say building global brand is...

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MBA hiring is up across the board

Good news for MBAs and those currently attending a top-ranked graduate business school: MBA hiring is up across the board.

* yes, job "board" pun intended.


In general, MBA Focus saw a 65% increase in MBA jobs over the past year (2011 vs 2010). This increase is based on the number of MBA-required and MBA-preferred jobs on the graduate business school job boards powered by MBA Focus' Global Talent System. This includes schools like Columbia, Cornell's Johnson School, Harvard Business School, MIT – Sloan, Kellogg, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley – Haas, Chicago's Booth School of Business and more.

But MBA hiring has prospered in some industries more than others, including a 440% increase in agribusiness and multiple technology industries with more than a 10% increase.

Here is the complete breakdown:

1. Agribusiness 440.00%
2. Engineering Services 172.73%
3. Manufacturing 171.43%
4. Financial - Insurance 139.53%
5. Nonprofits & Social Enterprises 107.14%

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