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:
- Expanding the employer network to startups, nonprofits, and other companies that don't traditionally recruit on campus.
- Gathering employment data from students in a timely fashion for employment reporting.
- Helping candidates compare offers among peers with relative data.
- Managing multiple OCR...