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

Thursday, October 18, 2012

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...


Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Top 10 function preferences for the MBA class of 2013


Our last look at this year's MBA profiles focuses on the functional job preferences of first-year students. Interestingly, the class of 2013 interests are right in line with previous MBA classes.

In fact, the top 10 preferences for this year's MBA1s appear to be the same top 10 functions in which all MBAs are interested. Take a look:
  1. Finance
  2. Management 
  3. Marketing
  4. Consulting
  5. Business Development
  6. Strategic Planning
  7. Tech
  8. Entrepreneurship
  9. Corporate Development
  10. Real Estate
Only one difference exists in the MBA1 vs. MBA2 comparison with this year's graduating MBA2s being slightly more interested in Accounting (2.33% of all MBA2s) than in Real Estate (2.25%). It's also worth noting that experienced MBA (EMBA) graduates are much more interested in Sales (top 12 with 1.45%) than current MBA students (top 19 with 0.61% of MBA1s and top 18 with 0.82% of MBA2s).

** click here for the complete function preference breakdown for this year's MBA1s **