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MBA Hiring 2013 Looking Up – Specialized Master’s on Fire!
According to a GMAC press release, employers are expressing early optimism for 2013 MBA hiring. Here are some of the key findings of the GMAC’s 2012 Year-End Poll of Employers, which includes responses...
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Top 25 Companies to Work for Post-MBA
Universum USA published new research on the most desirable MBA employers. The research was based on the opinions of 3,739 MBAs from 135 U.S. business schools. The Poets & Quants article, “Most...
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How to Optimise a LinkedIn Profile in Anticipation of a Job Search
Actively add contacts. LinkedIn, although one of the oldest social networking sites, is probably the most important when it comes to looking and applying for jobs. Your profile on LinkedIn is your...
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MBA Internship Recruiting Starts NOW
No time to relax. Long gone are the days when b-school students could arrive relaxed on campus in September, spend the first few months acclimating to students life and thinking about what they wanted...
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Salaries Up for Berkeley Haas Class of 2013
Salaries are up for Haas grads. An optimistic article on the Berkeley Haas website discusses the strong hiring market for its most recent graduating class. Here are some stats from the report: • 95% of...
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Learn How to Develop a Strategic Post-MBA Career Plan!
Do you need help organizing your post-MBA career strategy? We’ll be giving out free advice on how to develop a winning post-MBA career strategy on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM PST/1:00 PM...
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MBA Project Search: Matchmaking for MBAs and Businesses
You got into b-school, graduated, and now you’ve got to pay back those loans. Enter Dan Mullaney, a McDonough grad and founder of MBA Project Search. Listen to the full recording of the show to learn...
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GMAC Survey Finds More Employers Eager to Hire MBAs
Last week GMAC released the findings of its annual Corporate Recruiters Survey of 565 employers from 44 countries around the world – and results are looking good for business school graduates!...
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2014 B-School Grads Flock to Jobs in Tech, Healthcare, and Manufacturing
A GMAC press release presents the results of the most recent global student exit survey (of 3049 grads from 111 schools who responded in February and March), revealing that those students seeking jobs...
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25 Top MBA Employers According to MBA Students
B-school students were surveyed on where they want to work most by the Universum USA research firm. Let’s see how this year’s results varied from last year’s and the year before: Much as with school...
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MBA Hiring Expected to Increase in 2015
72% of employers plan on hiring MBA graduates in 2015 GMAC’s 2014 Year-End Employer Poll Here are some highlights from GMAC’s 2014 Year-End Employer Poll. Spoiler: It’s good news! • 169 employers from...
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The Hottest Skills that will Land You the Hottest Jobs
What are recruiters really looking for? A recent Businessweek article highlights the top skills job-seekers need to make the greatest impression on headhunters and future employers. What’s not high up...
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Rosy Outlook For MBA Grads
The GMAC 2015 Corporate Recruiters Survey has found a positive hiring climate for new MBAs, with demand increasing worldwide. Some highlights from the report: • Worldwide, 84 percent of recruiters...
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Picking a Career, Interviewing Right, and More Job Talk [Episode 131]
So, what do you want to be when you grow up? And if you do know what your dream job is, how will you land it? We could think of no better person to join us for a talk about careers than Karin Ash,...
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Good News for MBA, MAcc & MiM Grads
MBA and MiM grads rejoice! They are still hiring! GMAC’s Year-End Poll of Employers shows positive hiring outcomes from 2015 and strong employer demand for graduate business students worldwide in 2016....
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Highlights from the Bloomberg Job Skills Report 2016
Will your skills land you a job? What are job recruiters looking for in their MBA hires? What skills are they looking for? What skills are hardest to find? 1,251 job recruiters at 547 companies were...
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Increase in On-Campus Recruiting for B-Schools
Good news for MBA students and applicants – the MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance (a global association of business school career management offices and companies who hire MBA and Masters in...
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2016 GMAC Alumni Perspectives Survey Report
GMAC released results from its 2016 Alumni Perspectives Survey, based on responses from 14,279 graduate business school alumni from 1980-2015, representing 275 programs in 70 universities at 20...
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GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey Results 2016
Showing teamwork seems to be the best way to go. GMAC just released its 2016 Corporate Recruiters Survey Report. 109 graduate business schools participated in the GMAC survey in February and March of...
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GMAC Releases Results of Year-End Employer Poll
GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) has completed their Year-End Poll of Employers for 2016. Participating in the survey were 167 recruiters representing 140 companies located in 27 countries...
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What MBA Hiring Managers Look For
I’ve interviewed and hired numerous MBA grads in my 20+ year banking and consulting career. The skills and experience required for each role vary, of course – in finance, expertise in specific finance...
View ArticleChanging Associates’ World
CollegeJournal again has posted an excellent article on the changing interaction between associates and the large law firms that hire associates for big bucks and long hours. Once again the story...
View ArticleAssociate Salaries in California Hit $135K
Lawjobs.com reports that salaries for new associates in California’s "mid-sized" and most competitive firms have hit $135,000. That isn’t exactly new news; I noted the associate salary trend earlier....
View ArticleGraduate Program Options: Merge or Close?
Inside Higher Ed reports on a possible merger between the German departments at Duke and UNC Chapel Hill, two small struggling programs. According to Inside Higher Ed: "In so doing, the two...
View ArticleGood Hiring News for College and Law School Grads
Lots of good news for grads this year. Hiring is up and salaries are up. First from the Wall St. Journal comes "For Class of ’07, Lots of Job Offers." A few highlights: Employers intend to hire 17%...
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Employment News for Grads
There have been a few fascinating articles this week focused on job opportunities for recent graduates of college and various graduate programs. Here is a brief run-down: "Best Places to Launch a...
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MBA Admissions Chats Past and Future: Consortium, LBS, Haas, and INSEAD
We have two large chats planned for this week and are adding a couple of excellent new transcripts from recent chats. First the upcoming chats: The Consortium has put together an impressive group of...
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Law School Admissions News
A few interesting developments on the law school scene: The 2007 Law School Survey of Student Engagement was published recently and shows: Students at law schools with enrollments under 500 were more...
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The Job Market: Forbes’ “It’s A Good Time to Go To A B-Level B-School” reports that in today’s economy, job opportunities may be fewer and farther between for Wharton and Harvard graduates than for...
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NYU Stern’s Isser Gallogly: Finance from an Admissions Perspective
Part of an ongoing series “MBA in Finance: Forget It?” My question: Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general, how do you react to applicants who say they...
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MBA Applicants: What McKinsey (and HBS) Wants
They were looking for four things. I didn’t know until I’d made it to the third and last round of interviews, but McKinsey and Company, the strategy consulting firm perennially ranked among the top...
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MIT Sloan MBA Admissions: Interview with Rod Garcia
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Rod Garcia, Director of Admissions at the MIT Sloan School of Business. He was kind enough to provide an update on MIT Sloan admissions, and insight into...
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