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   

Interested in getting in on the action in 2013? Contact us for more details or view the demo here: http://www.mbafocus.com/recruit

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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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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Honoring the ultimate leaders: Veterans with MBAs

Veterans make great business leaders. Employers know it. As a result, veteran recruiting goals have grown exponentially over the past few years. And as more and more military veterans return home after serving our country abroad, they are heading to graduate business schools to earn their MBA.

Today, 15% of the MBA students currently at the world's top business schools have military experience. Of the 21,295 resumes currently in our database:

• 1,046 mention the word "Military"
• 709 Army
• 439 Navy
• 288...

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Top industries for this year's graduating class of MBA students

We've already broken down the job functions for this year's graduating class of MBA2s. But what about the job industry experiences and preferences?

Similar to the functional areas, most MBAs are interested and experienced in jobs in Finance. Roughly 2 out of 5 graduating MBA students have experience in the Finance industry. And almost half of them are interested in working in Finance post-graduation. This is no different from previous years. But there are some changes to the next nine industries on the list.

The top 10 industry experiences for this year's graduating class of 2013 MBA2s are:

• 1. Finance: 38.1%
• 2. Consulting: 30.8%
• 3. High Tech: 24.9%
• 4. Not-for-Profit...

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Top functions for this year's graduating class of MBA students

The class of 2013 MBA students have just recently arrived back on campus to start their second year of business school, but they're already well on their way to their new career next summer. And despite the current economic landscape and upcoming political events, not much has changed when it comes the functional experiences and preferences of the world's top MBAs.

Whether they're career accelerators or career changers, most of them have already updated their resumes, completed their job-seeker profiles, and by now they've even started interviewing for jobs.

So what are these current MBA students interested in? Our job-seeker profiles -- used by more than 70 of the world's top graduate business schools -- offer some insight into their job function preferences and experiences.

Not surprisingly, this year's graduating class of 2013 MBA students is most experienced in Finance and these six other functional areas:

1. Finance: 42.8%
2. Marketing: 35.7%
3. Management: 35.4%
4. Consulting...

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