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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[Infographic] How leading MBA employers use mobile

MBA recruitment is a structured and complex process. Career service offices layout strict rules for on-campus-recruiting. Plus there are thousands of MBA students at hundreds of graduate business schools around the world! So reaching this elite leadership talent can be a difficult task.

Today, recruiters use a mixture of traditional on-campus, in-person recruitment methods and new digital recruitment tools to aid them in this complex process. This infographic, "Digital MBA Recruitment: Top 10 recruiting tasks done by device," gives you a glimpse into how leading MBA employers are recruiting top MBA talent. We surveyed over 500 recruiters from our network to get this information.

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Here are some other quick, tweetable facts from our findings:

• Only 16 percent of MBA recruiters currently use a specialized mobile recruiting app. Tweet this!
• Email is still the most often used form of communication in MBA recruiting. Tweet this!
• Viewing resumes is the 3rd most often performed task by MBA recruiters. Tweet this!
• More MBA recruiters are viewing resumes on computers or mobile device than printed paper. Tweet this!
• MBA recruiters primarily still use pen & paper to take notes during interviews. Tweet this!
• 29 percent of MBA recruiters are using video interviewing technology. Tweet this!
• MBA recruiters prefer using a mobile device at on-campus recruiting events. Tweet this!
• Only 8 percent of MBA recruiters are supplied with a tablet by their company. Tweet this!
• Less than 10 percent of MBA recruiters use QR codes as part of their recruitment process. Tweet this!
• 1 in 3 MBA recruiters will visit 6 or more graduate business schools this year. Tweet this!
• 1 in 5 corporate recruiters will hire 10+ MBAs this year. Tweet this!
• The average cost to hire an MBA is $10,000.00. Tweet this!

For more information on our digital MBA recruitment tools and an all-new mobile app for recruiters coming this fall, please contact us.

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