Wednesday, June 27, 2012

MBA resume book release dates for 2012-2013 MBA recruiting season


The new class of 2013 & 2014 MBA resume books, containing CVs and career profiles for thousands of graduating and first-year MBA students at the world's top graduate business schools, are now available to recruiters for pre-ordering! Pre-ordering ensures you get access to the students the moment the resume books release to employers. Here are the projected release dates for the following schools (in chronological order):

Did you know you can search a comprehensive database of all 70+ schools? Learn how you can save time and find top talent faster.
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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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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

MBA analytics to inform your recruitment strategy


MBA Focus is pleased to present you with the 2011-2012 MBA Student and Alumni Analytics Report. As the exclusive partner to 70+ of the leading graduate business schools, we are able to deliver the most comprehensive profile of graduating and intern MBA students available.

This year’s report contains summary and detail information on nearly 78,000 candidates—including more than 28,000 students and nearly 50,000 alumni.

We are happy to report that our list of top-ranked partner schools has also grown since last year, including new programs outside the United States. This year MBA Focus proudly welcomed twelve additional schools to our network. This makes for a truly rich global recruiting resource.

At the beginning of the report you will find summaries and charts of 5-year trends in the candidate profile data for each of the following categories:
  • Job Function Experience
  • Job Function Preference
  • Industry Experience
  • Industry Preference
  • Geographic Preference
  • Work Authorization
Following the summary section are detailed reports for each of the above categories. You will also find additional detail reports on club affiliations, language abilities, licenses and certifications, and more.


Please take some time to review this report. We are certain that you will find the analytical information enlightening—and we are hopeful that it serves as a valuable reference in your current MBA recruiting initiatives.

To request your copy (or view a sample), please visit: https://www.mbafocus.com/analytics.aspx

Questions? Contact us.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

New b-schools, new MBA students, new class of 2013 & 2014 MBA resume books for recruiters!


The new resume books for the upcoming academic year are now available for pre-order! Pre-ordering ensures you get access to the students the moment they become available to employers. Just go to the Resume Books page or click on a school link below to get started:
* indicates a new school partnerships for 2012-13 academic year and MBA recruiting season


Did you know you can search a comprehensive database of all 70+ schools? Learn how you can save time and find top talent faster.
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Four new partner schools from outside the United States

MBA Focus Global School Partners

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...

(to continue reading please visit www.mbafocus.com)
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Friday, June 1, 2012

15 new b-schools to recruit top MBA talent from this year


The MBA Focus recruitment network continues to expand -- helping recruiters reach beyond their core schools to find high-quality matches to fill their talent pipeline, while simultaneously bringing schools more diverse opportunities for their job-seeking candidates -- and this year we’ve added 15 new top-ranked graduate business schools that weren’t available to our recruiters in June 2011.

The 2012-13 recruiting season additions will offer employers access to students and alumni* resume books from the following new MBA programs:
*alumni resume books are currently only available for Georgia State, Florida State, and Toronto


Click here to view a full list of our partner schools and visit our website.
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Why video interviewing will never replace the handshake

And how to integrate video interviewing into your hiring process


Video interviewing will never replace the in-person, one-on-one, final interviews needed to ensure a potential employee is the right fit for your company's culture. But it can be an extremely valuable tool to find top talent faster and improve the overall quality of hires.

Video Interviewing - MBA Focus

In an upcoming webinar hosted by MBA Focus, in partnership with InterviewStream, employers will learn that even though video interviewing will never replace the handshake, it should be an integral part of every company's recruitment process. The goal of the webinar is to introduce the five questions every employer should ask before implementing a video interviewing strategy; how to use pre-recorded video interviews for screening candidates; how to build a positive, branded candidate experience using video interviewing; and time saving tips and techniques for on-campus recruitment.

According to Marie Larsen, writer for Recruiter.com, "the reason video interviewing is going to hit it big is that it provides the most basic, simple, important fix imaginable: it saves money."

But video interviewing isn't just beneficial to employers, it's also convenient for candidates. In a recent SoloCup survey of students who were interviewed using InterviewStream’s pre-recorded video interviewing, 97% of students found the interview platform convenient to complete.

Video interviewing has already been widely adopted by: universities, to assist in their campus recruiting efforts; executive recruiting firms, to sort through candidates from around the world; and large corporations, to screen candidates in remote locations.

"For recruiters, video interviewing is the vehicle that finally delivers the package that hiring managers have long wanted: a more comprehensive profile of the candidate with less upfront investment from the hiring manager through a process that is both efficient and collaborative," states Talent HQ’s creator, editor, and Recruiting & Diversity Leader, Jason Buss.

But it wasn't always so prevalent. Despite existing for nearly a decade -- software like Skype, released in 2003, and companies like InterviewStream, founded in 2003 -- video interviewing wasn't truly adopted until the 2008-2009 recession. During that time, 52% of companies expected to decrease hiring, travel budgets were slashed, and companies and career service offices were forced to do more with less.

Today, the benefits of video interviewing include: increasing recruiting productivity, improving quality of hire, eliminating or significantly reducing travel costs, reducing CO2 emissions, building stronger relationships earlier in the interview process, and removing time barriers associated with international recruitment.

For more information on best practices in video interviewing, join two of the leaders in video interviewing and recruitment technology -- Dave Hoy, founder of MBA Focus, and Randy Bitting, CEO of InterviewStream -- for a webinar on Tuesday May 15 at 12:00 noon EST to discuss how to integrate video interviewing into your current recruitment processes. Registrations are open until midnight EST on May 14. Sign up now at https://www.mbafocus.com/Webinar.aspx.
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