Showing posts with label MBA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MBA. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2014

MBA resume book release dates for the 2014-2015 recruiting season



Trying to hire the best MBA students from the world's best business schools? There are a dozen things you need to do to attract top leadership talent, but being the first to contact them, the first to shake their hand, and the first to offer them a job will certainly help. To do so, you need to get access to their school's resume database the moment it is released to employers.

But please also be aware that many highly-ranked schools have strict policies and dates around early recruitment of their students. It is in your firm’s best interest to familiarize yourself with each of the school's policies. Visit the "More Info for Recruiters" page of their .edu website for more information.

Here are the release dates for each of our partner school's new class of 2015 and 2016 MBA student resume databases:
Resume databases available now:
Resume databases only available to our Global Focus partners:
Note: Release dates subject to change. Visit our web store for the most recently updated release dates and to view other professional associations, Masters programs, and alumni resume database offerings.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

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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Monday, July 15, 2013

Top 10 apps for MBA students & alumni



Congratulations, you're an MBA!  Whether you've already graduated or still in school, it’s good to be equipped with as many career service tools as possible to help you land your dream job.  One of the best tools for the job is your iPhone or iPad.  These ten iOS apps help both candidates and alumni in their quest for vocational fulfillment.

10. MBA Focus - If you're a MBA at one of our partner schools, download the MBA Focus mobile app to access all your career services on-the-go. Just sign in to your b-school's career management center on your computer to authorize your mobile device. It's that easy!

9. Letterpress - If you’re a student or alumni of a top graduate business school, chances are you're quite the wordsmith. But coming up with the right "words" can often be a chore. Letterpress makes words fun again.  Play against yourself or with friends in a game where you find words, steal tiles, and color the board to improve or prove your wordsmithing skills to the world.

8. TextGrabber - Ever need to scan a printed document on-the-go? This app allows you to take a picture of a body of text and then it reproduces the photographed text as an editable text note on your device.  It also provides a powerful translating tool for interviews with overseas employers.

7. SimpleNote - Are you tired of writing important notes on pieces of paper that seemingly often get misplaced?  With SimpleNote you can write notes in your web browser on your desktop computer and they will sync with your mobile device, and vice versa.  You can also categorize notes by different headings to help you keep your thoughts, and your life, a bit more organized.

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Employers demand a diverse group of MBAs



What types of business leaders are companies seeking? And what are leading MBA employers looking for on the campuses of top graduate b-schools? As the exclusive career service partner to 70+ of the world's top-ranked MBA programs and the #1 MBA recruitment tool for thousands of multinational corporations, MBA Focus offers the most comprehensive profile on MBA employer demands. 

The 2013 Employer Demand Analysis Report offers an in-depth summary of more than 80,000 resume database searches and job postings by the leading MBA employers in our network.

This year's report includes summary and detail information about the job postings and searches performed on a variety of functions and industries, including: 
  • Consulting
  • Consumer Packaged Goods
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Health Care
  • Tech
  • ... and more!


Please take some time to request a copy of this report. And be sure to compare it to our Candidate Analytics Report. We are certain that you will find the analytical information enlightening—and we are hopeful that it serves as a valuable reference for your MBA recruiting and career service initiatives.

Tweetable facts from this year's Employer Demand Analysis Report:
  • The top 3 function experiences employers are searching for: Consulting (14.4%), Finance (11.7%), and Marketing (10.4%). Tweet this!
  • Companies in #Tech are seeking the largest percentage of MBAs with Marketing experience (25.7%). Tweet this!
  • Companies in #Energy are seeking the largest percentage of MBAs with Sales experience (10.8%). Tweet this!
  • Companies in #Consulting are seeking the largest percentage of MBAs with Military experience (57.2%). Tweet this!
  • The top 3 industry experiences employers are searching for: Consulting (17.0%), Finance (11.9%), and Healthcare (7.6%). Tweet this!
  • Top 5 work authorization searches by employers: EU, China, UK, Brazil, Mexico. Tweet this!
  • Top 5 language ability searches by employers: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Portuguese, French. Tweet this!
  • Top 3 student club affiliations employers are searching for: Women in Business, African-American Business, Hispanic Business. Tweet this!
  • Top 3 undergraduate majors employers are searching for: Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering. Tweet this!
  • 61.6% of employers are seeking an MBA with 3-10 years of previous work experience. Tweet this!
  • Over 10% of employer searches included a "willingness to relocate" criteria. Tweet this!
  • 7.2% of MBA-required job postings were for openings in Asia. 4.1% in Europe. 2.9% in Africa. Tweet this!
  • 26.1% of the jobs in Latin America & The Caribbean were posted by Finance companies. Tweet this!
  • The top 5 MBA-required job posting locations in the US: San Francisco, NYC, Chicago, LA, Boston. Tweet this!
  • The top 5 MBA-required job posting functions: Finance (17%), Marketing (13%), Management (11%), Biz Dev (8%), Consulting (7%). Tweet this!
Request a copy of this report to find more interesting tweetable facts today!

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

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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Thursday, September 6, 2012

All-New Mobile App for Job-Seeking MBAs


Are you a job-seeking MBA from one of our top-ranked partner schools? If so, then you belong to the most exclusive MBA recruitment network available. Get the most out of your school’s career management offerings with the MBA Focus app. Just create a mobile account within your school’s career service candidate registration system. Then log in to manage all your career service and on-campus recruitment processes on-the-go.

MBA Focus is an exclusive network used to connect leading employers with the world's top-ranked graduate business schools. Our partnerships with the world’s leading graduate business schools, together with our industry-leading recruitment management technology products, make us the #1 choice of companies seeking top MBA talent.

This mobile app allows MBAs to connect with thousands of recruiters from the world’s leading MBA employers.



Once you've created your career profile and uploaded your resume, use MBA Focus v2.0 to
» Check "Announcements"
» View "My Calendar"
» Search the "Company / Contact" file
» Search for "Jobs"
» View "Hot-Lists" with full functionality
» View "Company Details" and all "Contacts" for specified companies

*Functionality varies by school. Contact your school's career service office for details.

IMPORTANT: You must first create a mobile account within your school’s Career Service candidate registration system. After that, make sure your profile is always up-to-date and available to companies searching for their next generation of business leaders.

Interested? Here's the Step-by-Step Guide for Job-Seeking Candidates and the links to the apps:
Apple AppStore    |    Google Play / Android    |    Blackberry App World


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Friday, July 27, 2012

How much money MBAs actually make

If you have an MBA from one the world's top business schools chances are you make over $100,000 per year.
In fact, more than 70% of the MBAs who graduated from our top-ranked partner schools make at least 6-figures. And 1 in 5 make more than $200,000 annually. Here is the current data:
  • Under $100K: 27% of MBAs
  • $100k - $150k: 31%
  • $150k - $200k: 20%
  • Over $200K...
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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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Monday, February 20, 2012

From B-School to President of the United States


Okay. So only two people have actually gone from b-school to the President of the United States: George W. Bush got his MBA from Harvard Business School and John F. Kennedy attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. But that's still 5% of all Presidents. And many of them studied business and economics as undergrads, including Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

Law school is a much more common road -- 12 Presidents took that path including our current Commander-in-chief Barack Obama. And one President even attended med school -- William Henry Harrison.

Surprisingly, 10 former Presidents never even graduated college -- a list that includes 2 dropouts and 8 never-wents, including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Overall, most US Presidents have had a college education, including five of the first seven.

In total, the 44 Presidents have attended 31 different colleges. Here is the breakdown by school -- which includes 8 of our partners (26%) -- both grad schools and undergrad:

<please visit our blog for the complete list of Presidents by school>
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

How have functional job offerings changed for MBAs?

MBAs infamously become consultants, financiers, and business leaders. But the MBA degree has spread its wings into multiple other functions, including: human resources, engineering, and education. Today, MBAs get their graduate degrees in a plethora of functions. And the MBA job market is changing as well.

Here are the top 25 functions from the MBA job postings in 2011:
  1. Consulting
  2. Marketing - Brand / Product Management
  3. Business Development
  4. Strategic Planning
  5. Finance - Analyst / Research
  6. Sales
  7. Marketing - Market Research
  8. Marketing - Product Development
  9. Marketing - General
  10. Management  - Project Mgmt.
  11. Finance - General
  12. Finance - Corporate Finance
  13. Management  - General
  14. Marketing - Merchandising / Retail
  15. Marketing - Communications / Public Relations
  16. Finance - Investment Management
  17. Marketing - Advertising
  18. Finance - Mergers & Acquisitions
  19. Tech - Ecommerce / Internet / Web Site Mgmt
  20. Management  - Operations / Production
  21. Marketing
  22. Finance - Investment Banking
  23. Tech - Business Analysis and Design
  24. Finance - Risk Management
  25. Management  - General Manager
To see how MBA job offerings have changed, take a look at the top 25 functional areas with their corresponding year over year (YOY) increase:
  1. Tech - Integration / Implementation: 310.53%
  2. Economic Analysis / Research: 261.11%
  3. Research & Development: 218.18%
  4. Tech - Training and Development: 206.25%
  5. Tech - Systems Management: 176.00%
  6. Management : 175.00%
  7. Marketing: 168.57%
  8. Tech: 162.50%
  9. Strategic Planning: 146.39%
  10. Marketing - Communications / Public Relations: 130.36%
  11. Finance - Investment Banking: 127.50%
  12. Finance - Mergers & Acquisitions: 120.45%
  13. Business Development: 119.27%
  14. Management  - International / Multinational: 117.65%
  15. Tech - Business Analysis and Design: 114.29%
  16. Marketing - Advertising: 112.28%
  17. Human Resources: 109.09%
  18. Finance - Restructure / Turnaround: 105.88%
  19. Marketing - Market Research: 105.10%
  20. Finance: 103.33%
  21. Finance - Commercial Banking: 102.94%
  22. Finance - Public Finance: 102.94%
  23. Tech - General: 100.00%
  24. Finance - Investment Management: 98.41%
  25. Corporate Development: 97.56%
Want to more about the current MBA recruitment landscape? Contact us with any inquiries or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The team at MBA Focus has over 100 years combined experience in MBA recruiting – making us the premier thought leader and expert source for knowledge on the subject. Our expertise combined with the information in our database allows us to publish annual reports and articles on the industry. These documents offer valuable information and insight for anyone interested in the MBA recruitment process.

Source: Data is from jobs distributed to MBAs at our partner schools. 
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

How much money MBAs expect to make?

Our exclusive network of MBA talent gives us access to the career profiles of over 70,000 MBA students and alumni from the world's top-ranked business schools. These career profiles tell us a lot about the demographics of the current MBA population, including industry preferences, function preferences, work experiences, geographic preferences, and salary expectations.

Surprisingly, this year's graduating class of MBA students has very similar salary expectations to their experienced counterparts already in the workforce. Roughly 50% of all MBAs, whether still in school or alumni, expect to earn between $100,000 and $200,000 next year. And a mere 5-6% of MBAs expect to earn less than $65,000.

There are some differences which shouldn't surprise you though, including a 5% jump in $300,000+ range for business leaders with post-MBA experience.

Here is the data, including charts and graphs for both populations:
  • $300k plus: 2.64%
  • $250k-$300k: 2.64% 
  • $200k-$250k: 7.45% 
  • $150k-$200k: 18.27% 
  • $100k-$150k: 30.29% 
  • $80k-$100k: 21.15%
  • $65k-$80k: 11.06%
  • $50k-$65k: 6.49% 


  • $300k plus: 7.14%
  • $250k-$300k: 4.07%
  • $200k-$250k: 9.53%
  • $150k-$200k: 20.73%
  • $100k-$150k: 31.90%
  • $80k-$100k: 14.79%
  • $65k-$80k: 6.82%
  • $50k-$65k: 5.01%
To view the complete career profile/demographic information for these top-ranked MBA students and alumni: Request your complimentary MBA career profile demographics report today.
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Top 10 most popular certifications and licenses for MBAs

In addition to 6+ years advancing their education, many MBAs also attain other certifications and licenses to further prepare themselves for the business world ahead.

It should also come as no surprise that finance certifications and licenses lead the pack. But you might be interested to see what else makes the list, including: Security Clearance, Real Estate License, Pilot License, and Architect License.

Out of 71,325 MBA students and alumni currently in our database, and 9,610 who answered this career profile question, here is what we found:


For the full list of stats and data on MBAs other certifications and licenses click here.





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