Top 5 tips to improve your job-seeker profile

You've undoubtedly completed a handful of online profiles over the past 5 years. You have a Facebook profile, a Twitter bio, a LinkedIn resume, and maybe even a MySpace account. You've also probably created profiles on your favorite news and shopping sites. These profiles are a dime-a-doze, with standard questions (i.e. favorite quotes, movies, job title, interests, and accomplishments) and generic information for the general public. Anyone can signup, and everyone's profile looks the same. It is not a niche network or an exclusive club.

The MBA Focus network is as exclusive as it gets. Only top-ranked b-schools and elite MBA students or alumni from those programs can join. Plus every MBA employer who wants access to this top talent must first be approved by each school's career service office. But even with such limited competition, it can be hard to stand out as an elite job-seeking MBA candidate.

The MBA Focus job-seeker profile is designed to help you differentiate yourself from other MBAs with similar resumes. Here are five tips to improve your profile:

1. Be Complete: Don't just complete the required sections. Fill out as many fields as you can, including the top 5 most searched-on profile attributes: Geographic Preference, Industry Experience, Function Experience, Function Preference, Industry Preference.
2. Be Accurate: Don't just select...

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MBA Analytics Report can inform your recruitment strategy

Wondering what MBAs from the world's top graduate business schools are interested in doing for a career post-graduatiion? Or what experiences these students had before arriving on campus? As the exclusive career services technology partner to 70+ leading graduate business schools, MBA Focus is able to deliver the most comprehensive profile of job-seeking MBA students and alumni available.

The 2013 Candidate Analytics Report contains summary and detail information on more than 80,000 MBAs—including more than 16,000 graduating students, 10,000 first-year students, and 55,000 alumni.

This year's report offers an in-depth look at the career profile demographic data for the current population of job-seeking candidates, including:

• Job Function Experiences
• Job Function Preferences
• Industry Experiences
• Industry Preferences
• Geographic Preferences
• Work Authorization
• Club Affiliations
• Language Abilities
• Licenses and Certifications
• ... and more!

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Please take some time to request a copy of this report. We are certain that you will find the analytical information useful as you plan your upcoming MBA recruiting and career service initiatives.

Tweetable facts from this year's Candidate Analytics Report:

• MBAs are more interested in Management (55%), Marketing (51%), and Consulting (50%) than Finance (48%). Tweet this!
• MBA career changers come from #Engineering and #Technology function experiences. Tweet this!
• MBAs do not prefer careers in Engineering (4%) despite functional experiences (22%) #careerchangers. Tweet this!
• 50.7% of MBA2s and 49.1% of MBA1s prefer a career in #Consulting. Tweet this!
• Each new MBA class has more Not-for-profit experience (16.6% in 2012, 17.2% in 2013 and 18.9% in 2014). Tweet this!
• B-schools saw a 5% increase in MBA students with Finance experience during the 2011-12 academic year. Tweet this!
• Consulting (49%), Finance (46%), CPG (30%) and Tech (29%) are the top industry prefs of graduating MBAs. Tweet this!
• For the first time Consulting (49.4%) is a more popular MBA job industry preference than Finance (46.2%). Tweet this!
• The top 3 function preferences of MBA2s = Biz Dev 32%, Strategic Planning 27%, Brand/Product Mgmt 23%. Tweet this!
• MBA2s' top 3 industry preferences = Consulting Strategy 27%, Private Equity 21%, Venture Capital 19%. Tweet this!
• Where do MBAs want to work in United State? NYC, SF Bay, LA, Boston, and Chicago. Tweet this!
• Where do MBAs want to work outside the US? UK, Hong Kong, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Tweet this!
• 9% of MBAs at top b-schools are authorized to work in India. 8% in the European Union. And 6% in China. Tweet this!
• The #1 industry experience for the MBA class of 2014 is #Nonprofits & Social Enterprises (12.2%). Tweet this!
• 10.6% of this year's graduating class of MBA2s has experience in #Sales. Tweet this!
• 10% of this year's graduating class of MBA2s has experience in #Entrepreneurship. Tweet this!
• 27% of MBAs speak Spanish. 16% speak French. 13% speak Mandarin. 11% speak Hindi. And 6% speak German. Tweet this!
• 6.5% of MBAs have experience in Retail. Tweet this!
• MBA students from the world's top-ranked b-schools make $100k-$150k on average (14.3% of alumni). Tweet this!
• Only 8.1% of actively- or passively-seeking MBA alumni are NOT willing to relocate. Tweet this!
• The MBA Focus network has grown to now include 83,033 MBA students & alumni from the world's top b-schools. Tweet this!

Request a copy of this report to find more interesting tweetable facts for your industry or function.

For more information about gaining access to this top MBA talent please contact us.

Go mobile for timely employment reporting

It's that time of the year again. Your students have completed their resume workshops, attended recruiting events, finished interviews, and are now beginning to receive offers from employers. These offers and employment reports are a crucial part of your annual process. But now that the offers are rolling in, students tend to forget about career services. So how can career service offices stay in touch with students and get this critical information in a timely fashion? Go mobile!

Each new class of MBA students is becoming increasingly millennial...

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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.

Use email to increase visibility & market your employer brand

Having issues keeping your brand in front of job-seeking candidates? Wish current MBA students understood your company's culture? It's an important issue and often one of the biggest pain points for recruiters at both lesser-known and well-established brands.

Here are three tips to keep your employment brand in front of high-potential MBA candidates:

1. Create a message that describes your company culture and breaks down a typical day at the office. Include testimonials and links to videos of happy employees.

2. Clearly present what...

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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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