Top 10 apps for 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 - 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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Ten mobile apps for MBA students and alumni

Congratulations, you're an MBA!  Whether you've already graduated or still in school, it’s good to be equipped with as many career service tools as possible to help you land your dream job.  One of the best tools for the job is your iPhone or iPad.  These ten iOS apps help both candidates and alumni in their quest for vocational fulfillment.

10. MBA Focus - If you're a MBA at one of our partner schools, download the MBA Focus mobile app to access all your career services on-the-go. Just sign in to your b-school's career management center on your computer to authorize your mobile device. It's that easy!

9. Letterpress - If you’re a student or alumni of a top graduate business school, chances are you're quite the wordsmith. But coming up with the right "words" can often be a chore. Letterpress makes words fun again.  Play against yourself or with friends in a game where you find words, steal tiles, and color the board to improve or prove your wordsmithing skills to the world.

8. TextGrabber - Ever need to scan a printed document on-the-go? This app allows you to take a picture of a body of text and then it reproduces the photographed text as an editable text note on your device.  It also provides a powerful translating tool for interviews with overseas employers.

7. SimpleNote - Are you tired of writing important notes on pieces of paper that seemingly often get misplaced?  With SimpleNote you can write notes in your web browser on your desktop computer and they will sync with your mobile device, and vice versa.  You can also categorize notes by different headings to help you keep your thoughts, and your life, a bit more organized.

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Release Dates for the MBA Class of 2014 & 2015 Student Databases

Get ready! The class of 2014 & 2015 MBA student resume books will be available to employers soon. Pre-order today to get access the moment the schools release it to employers!

Our partner schools' career service offices are currently reviewing all of their 1st- and 2nd-year MBA students' resumes & profiles in preparation for the 2013-14 MBA recruiting season. Once complete, their online resume books will be released to recruiters. Below is a list of release dates for each school and class year. These dates are subject to change. Pre-ordering each resume book ensures you get access to this top MBA talent the moment it is released to employers.

To get started, just go to the Resume Books page on our website or click on a school link below:

School	Class Year / Program	Release Date
Notre Dame - Mendoza	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/1/2013
Chicago Booth	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/5/2013
AGSM	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/12/2013
Houston - Bauer	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/12/2013
Houston - Bauer	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	8/12/2013
UC Berkeley - Haas	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/12/2013
Yale SOM	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/12/2013
Columbia Business School	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/16/2013
Michigan - Ross (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/16/2013
Northwestern - Kellogg	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/16/2013
Toronto - Rotman	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/16/2013
Pittsburgh - Katz	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	8/19/2013
Pittsburgh - Katz	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/19/2013
Rice - Jones	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	8/19/2013
Rice - Jones	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/19/2013
Rochester - Simon	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/19/2013
Ohio State - Fisher	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/22/2013
NYU - Stern	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/23/2013
Stanford GSB	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/23/2013
UC Irvine - Merage	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/23/2013
UCLA - Anderson	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/23/2013
Indiana - Kelley	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/26/2013
UCSD - Rady	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/26/2013
Virginia - Darden	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/26/2013
Cornell - Johnson	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/27/2013
Harvard Business School	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/27/2013
Emory - Goizueta	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/28/2013
Emory - Goizueta	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	8/28/2013
Florida State	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/28/2013
Florida State	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	8/28/2013
Ohio State - Fisher	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	8/29/2013
Dartmouth - Tuck	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/30/2013
Duke - Fuqua	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/30/2013
Georgia - Terry	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/30/2013
Texas - McCombs	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	8/30/2013
Syracuse - Whitman	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/6/2013
Syracuse - Whitman	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/6/2013
Case Western - Weatherhead	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/6/2013
USC - Marshall	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/6/2013
Wake Forest Schools of Business	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/6/2013
Wake Forest Schools of Business	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/6/2013
Carnegie Mellon - Tepper	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/10/2013
Dartmouth - Tuck	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/10/2013
Tulane - Freeman	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/10/2013
Tulane - Freeman	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/10/2013
Pepperdine - Graziadio	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/11/2013
TCU - Neeley	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/11/2013
TCU - Neeley	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/11/2013
Georgia - Terry	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/13/2013
Boston College - Carroll	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/15/2013
Brandeis International	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/15/2013
HEC - Paris	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/15/2013
London Business School	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/16/2013
MIT - Sloan	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/16/2013
Penn State - Smeal (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/19/2013
Penn State - Smeal (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/19/2013
Minnesota - Carlson	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/19/2013
Washington - Foster	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/19/2013
Boston College - Carroll	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/20/2013
Sacramento State	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/25/2013
Sacramento State	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/25/2013
Case Western - Weatherhead	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/27/2013
Texas - McCombs	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	9/27/2013
Wisconsin-Madison	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	9/30/2013
Arizona State - Carey	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	10/1/2013
Arizona State - Carey	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/1/2013
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	10/2/2013
Washington - Foster	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/2/2013
CUHK	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	10/4/2013
CUHK	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/4/2013
Rochester - Simon	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/7/2013
Wisconsin-Madison	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/7/2013
Pepperdine - Graziadio	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/9/2013
Notre Dame - Mendoza	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/10/2013
USC - Marshall	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/11/2013
Yale SOM	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/11/2013
Indiana - Kelley	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/14/2013
Minnesota - Carlson	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/14/2013
Brandeis International	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/15/2013
Harvard Business School	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/17/2013
Duke - Fuqua	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/18/2013
London Business School	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/28/2013
NYU - Stern	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/30/2013
Virginia - Darden	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	10/31/2013
HEC - Paris	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/1/2013
UCLA - Anderson	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/4/2013
UCSD - Rady	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/4/2013
Cornell - Johnson	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/5/2013
Chicago - Booth	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/8/2013
Michigan - Ross (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/8/2013
Toronto - Rotman	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/8/2013
UC Irvine - Merage	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/8/2013
Carnegie Mellon - Tepper	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/11/2013
MIT - Sloan	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/11/2013
UC Berkeley - Haas	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/12/2013
Northwestern - Kellogg	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/15/2013
Stanford GSB	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/15/2013
Columbia Business School	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	11/20/2013
AIM	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
AIM	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Colorado State	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Colorado State	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Iowa - Tippie	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Iowa - Tippie	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Denver- Daniels	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Denver- Daniels	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Florida - Hough	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Florida - Hough	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Georgetown - McDonough	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Georgetown - McDonough	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
HKUST Business School	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
HKUST Business School	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Hult International	Class of 2014 - Graduates	TBD
IESE (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
IESE (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Illinois	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Illinois	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Maryland - Smith	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Maryland - Smith	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Michigan State - Broad	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Michigan State - Broad	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Purdue - Krannert (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Purdue - Krannert (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Rotterdam (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2014 - 1st Year	TBD
Texas A&M - Mays (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Texas A&M - Mays (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
South Carolina - Moore	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
South Carolina - Moore	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Tampa - Sykes (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Tampa - Sykes (Global Focus-only)	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Utah - Eccles	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD
Utah - Eccles	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Willamette	Class of 2014 - 2nd Year	TBD
Willamette	Class of 2015 - 1st Year	TBD

Resume books for other programs (EMBA, MS, PhD, part-time, etc) releasing soon:

School	Class Year / Program	Release Date
Georgia State - Robinson	MBA Graduates	Available Now
IMD (Global Focus-only)	December 2013 Graduates	Available Now
Rice - Jones	EMBA Program	8/1/2013
AGSM	EMBA 2013-2014	8/12/2013
AGSM	MBA Hong Kong 2013-2014	8/12/2013
AGSM	MBT 2013-2014	8/12/2013
Rice - Jones	MBA-P Academic Year 2014-2015	8/19/2013
Pepperdine - Graziadio	Fully Employed/Part Time MBA	9/11/2013
Pepperdine - Graziadio	Fully Employed/Part Time MS	9/11/2013
Pepperdine - Graziadio	Full Time MSAF & MSGB	9/11/2013
Pepperdine - Graziadio	Fully Employed/Part Time BSM	9/11/2013
Brandeis International	CareerFOCUS PhD Candidates	9/15/2013
CEIBS (Global Focus-only)	February 2014 Graduates	9/16/2013
MIT - Sloan	Master of Finance Class of 2014	9/16/2013
Wisconsin-Madison	Evening & Executive Program	9/30/2013
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Alumni	10/2/2013
Forté Foundation	Currently Enrolled MBA Women	10/11/2013
Forté Foundation	College Women	10/11/2013
Brandeis International	Alumni	TBD
Georgia State - Robinson	Robinson Alumni Resume Database	TBD
HKUST Business School	Part-Time Program - 2013-2014	TBD
Hult International	Class of 2014 - Masters	TBD
Michigan State - Broad	Weekend MBA's	TBD
Maryland - Smith	Part-Time and Executive MBA	TBD
SDA Bocconi	December 2014 Graduates	TBD
SDA Bocconi	December 2013 Graduates	TBD
TCU - Neeley	Alumni	TBD
UCD - Smurfit (Global Focus-only)	December 2012 Graduates	TBD

Five tips to improve your MBA Focus candidate 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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[Infographic] Where mobile apps fit into the MBA recruitment process

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.

If you like the infographic, please share it on Facebook and Twitter, "Pin" it, “Like” it, and feel free to use it on your website and/or blog.




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.

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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Utilize email marketing for employer branding

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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Nine ways MBA 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