Do MBA internships affect career paths?

Half-way through the graduate business schooling process most MBA students participate in an internship. By this time, many MBAs know what they want to do and where they want to work, but the MBA internship is the final confirmation -- for most! For some MBAs, the summer internship can be an enlightening experience that ultimately changes their career path.

Take the current 2nd-year class of MBA students preparing to graduate this summer for example. The majority of them spent last summer in an internship in the investment banking / brokerage industry:

1. Investment Banking / Brokerage 6.26%
2. Strategy 5.24%
3. Investment Management 4.89%
4. Internet Services / E-Commerce 4.86%
5. Private Equity 4.48%
6. Software 2.83%
7. Beverages / Food 2.71%
8. Management 2.51%
9. Hedge Funds 2.49%
10. Retail 2.44%

After completing their summer internships, however, the same class of 2012 MBA students now prefers a career in...

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Convert more interns into full-time hires

Companies today expect to convert a high proportion of interns into full-time hires. Smart firms convert even higher proportions with the virtual recruiting tools powered by MBA Focus.

The national average of interns who accept a full-time position is about 73%. Recruiters using our recruitment management system admit that their goal is even higher, hoping that "80% of full-time hires will come from interns and co-ops."

But these advanced search and screening tools don't just make it easier to find perfect-fit candidates, they also make it more cost-effective. And as efficiency goes up, hiring goes up. One of our clients that hired 143 interns for the summer of 2011 will be hiring 253 interns for the summer of 2012.

Major corporation like this and other Fortune 100 companies like Amazon.com, Citi, Google, and Johnson & Johnson are leading the charge, but other much smaller companies are also hiring interns via MBA Focus for a variety of positions, including Senior Product Managers, Senior Financial Analysts, VPs of Marketings and Brand Development, and Strategic Consultants.

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B-School MBA Intern Resume Databases for Employers

Many of the class of 2013 MBA intern resume books are already available to employers! Don't let your competitors get ahead in the recruiting process. Find perfect fit interns and put your internships in front of first-year students from top-ranked graduate business schools before it's too late! Order now and start searching the database today*.

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• Rice - Jones: 8/11/2011
• Thunderbird: 8/19/2011
• Western Ontario - Ivey: 8/22/2011
• University of Houston - Bauer: 8/26/2011
• Ohio State - Fisher: 9/1/2011
• Dartmouth - Tuck: 9/9/2011
• Emory - Goizueta: 9/12/2011
• Syracuse - Whitman: 9/12/2011
• USC - Marshall: 9/14/2011
• Iowa - Tippie: 9/22/2011
• Boston College - Carroll: 9/23/2011
• Washington - Foster: 9/28/2011
• Florida - Hough: 9/30/2011
• Case Western Reserve - Weatherhead: 10/3/2011
• Denver - Daniels: 10/3/2011
• Florida State: 10/3/2011
• Notre Dame - Mendoza: 10/4/2011
• UT Austin - McCombs: 10/5/2011
• Florida International: 10/10/2011
• Rochester - Simon: 10/10/2011
• Wisconsin-Madison: 10/10/2011
• AIM: 10/14/2011
• Georgia Tech: 10/14/2011
• South Carolina - Moore: 10/14/2011
• Minnesota - Carlson: 10/17/2011
• Duke - Fuqua: 10/21/2011
• Harvard Business School: 10/24/2011
• Hong Kong - HKUST: 10/24/2011
• UCLA - Anderson: 10/25/2011
• UVA - Darden: 10/25/2011
• Pennsylvania - Wharton: 10/27/2011
• Maryland - Smith: 10/28/2011
• Wisconsin-Milwaukee: 10/28/2011
• Wake Forest: 10/28/2011
• Cornell - Johnson: 10/31/2011
• Georgetown - McDonough: 10/31/2011
• Hong Kong - CUHK: 10/31/2011
• Indiana - Kelley: 10/31/2011
• Michigan State - Broad: 10/31/2011 - Only available through Global Focus
• NYU - Stern: 10/31/2011
• Tampa - Sykes: 10/31/2011 - Only available through Global Focus
• Tulane - Freeman: 10/31/2011
• Carnegie Mellon - Tepper: 11/7/2011
• UC Berkeley - Haas: 11/7/2011
• Chicago Booth: 11/8/2011
• UC Irvine: 11/8/2011
• UCSD - Rady: 11/8/2011
• London Business School: 11/9/2011
• Columbia: 11/11/2011
• Northwestern - Kellogg: 11/11/2011
• MIT - Sloan: 11/14/2011
• Temple - Fox: 11/15/2011
• Toronto - Rotman: 11/15/2011
• Stanford GSB: 11/18/2011
• Michigan - Ross: 11/21/2011 - Only available through Global Focus
• Illinois: 11/30/2011
• SDA Bocconi: 2/1/2012
• Depaul - Kellstadt: TBD
• Hult: TBD
• Queen's School of Business: TBD
• Pittsburgh - Katz: TBD
• Singapore - NUS: TBD
• York - Schulich: TBD - Only available through Global Focus

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Recruit Top MBA Interns!

Hiring MBA interns is a cost-effective and essential way to build your leadership talent pipeline regardless of business cycles. Smart firms have learned from past mistakes and realize they cannot afford to fall behind in leadership recruiting again.

Firms like Kaplan, SAP, Amazon.com, Citi, and Deutsche Bank are leading the charge, but other much smaller companies are also hiring interns via MBA Focus for a variety of positions, including Strategic Consultant, Merchandise Buyer, Operation Manager, and Senior Financial Analyst.

MBA internships offer a low risk way for employers to both select full-time talent and meet short-term staffing needs. (GMAC 2008). Take your internship recruiting to the next level by ordering the MBA Focus class of 2011 first-year student databases today!

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Recruit MBA Interns to be Future Hires

Hiring MBA interns is a cost-effective and essential way to build your leadership talent pipeline regardless of business cycles. Smart firms have learned from past mistakes and realize they cannot afford to fall behind in leadership recruiting again. And despite the economic downturn, internship offerings increased in 2009 by 2.0% over 2008.

Firms like Kaplan, SAP, Amazon.com, Citi, and Deutsche Bank are leading the charge, but other much smaller companies are also hiring interns via MBA Focus for a variety of positions, including Merchandise Buyer, Operation Manager, Senior Financial Analyst, Product Marketing, and Strategic Consultant.

These interns often turn into full-time hires. In fact, General Electric recently admitted to CollegeGrad.com, "Over 80 percent of our full time hires were converted from GE's population of interns and co-ops."

MBA internships offer a low risk way for employers to both select full-time talent and meet short-term staffing needs. (GMAC 2008).

Take your internship recruiting to the next level by ordering the MBA Focus class of 2011 first-year student databases today!

New Year, New MBA Students and New Resumes!

MBA Focus would like to better help you identify and attract top MBA students by offering you access to more than 10,000 “first-year” candidates from the top 60+ global MBA programs via online resume books and job boards. These recruiting tools allow you to identify the best fit candidates for your internship opportunities using search criteria that match your company's hiring needs. Take advantage of these cost-effective and essential recruitment tools today and get started at our secure ordering website: www.mbafocus.com/orders

Here are some of the first-year candidate populations that are available to recruiters:

Columbia Business School - Class of 2010
Cornell - Johnson - Class of 2010
Dartmouth - Tuck - Class of 2010
Duke - Fuqua - Class of 2010
Harvard Business School - Class of 2010
London - LBS - Class of 2010
MIT - Sloan - Class of 2010
NYU - Stern - Class of 2010
Northwestern - Kellogg - Class of 2010
Stanford University GSB - Class of 2010
UC Berkeley - Haas - Class of 2010
UCLA Anderson - Class of 2010
U. Chicago GSB - Class of 2010
U. North Carolina - Class of 2010
U. Pennsylvania - Wharton - Class of 2010
U. Texas at Austin - McCombs - Class of 2010
U. Virginia - Darden - Class of 2010
Yale School of Management - Class of 2010

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