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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Use email to increase visibility & market your employer brand

Having issues keeping your brand in front of job-seeking candidates? Wish current MBA students understood your company's culture? It's an important issue and often one of the biggest pain points for recruiters at both lesser-known and well-established brands.

Here are three tips to keep your employment brand in front of high-potential MBA candidates:

1. Create a message that describes your company culture and breaks down a typical day at the office. Include testimonials and links to videos of happy employees.

2. Clearly present what...

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Top 10 biggest challenges for MBA career service offices in 2013

Business schools, employers, and analysts are all predicting an uptick in MBA recruiting in 2013 -- and the class of 2013 MBA students are hoping they're right. But the career service offices at the world's top graduate business schools still face some major challenges next year -- even when the MBA job market picks up.

Despite technological innovations and creative new recruitment techniques, many MBA career service offices still lack simple solutions to the following issues:

1. Expanding the employer network to startups, nonprofits, and other companies that don't traditionally recruit on campus.
2. Gathering employment data from students in a timely fashion for employment reporting.
3. Helping candidates compare offers among peers with relative data.
4. Managing multiple OCR...

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Top 10 biggest challenges for MBA recruiters in 2013

Every recruiter deals with the challenges of the current economic state -- not enough time, money, or resources -- but beyond those basic pains MBA recruiters must also deal with these more complicated issues.

Despite predicted improvements to the MBA recruitment landscape in 2013, many employers will still lack simple solutions to the following problems:

1. Finding leadership talent that matches your company's culture.
2. Keeping your company's brand top-of-mind when candidates start seeking.
3. Finding up-to-date resumes and job-seeker profiles.
4. Making a personal connection...

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