2010 MBA Recruiting Stats: Year in Review

• Over 2,000 companies and
• More than 3,000 recruiters
• Across 50 countries
• Purchased over 4,000 resume books,
• Posted over 6,500 jobs,
• Sent over 3,000 emails,
• And performed over 275,000 searches on...

• More than 68,000 job-seeking candidates, including
• Over 26,000 MBA students and
• Over 42,000 experienced alumni
• From 140 different countries,
• Speaking over 80 different languages,
• Across 90 different industries,
• And 80 different functions,
• With over 315,000 years of work experience
• And more than 75,000 years of post-MBA experience combined
• At: http://www.mbafocus.com/

Social Networks Impact on Job-Searches and Recruiting

Recently a few reports have surfaced with some interesting facts on social networks. These stats depict the importance of social media and how it will and is changing the world of job-hunting and recruiting:

• Average ages of social media users Twitter 31, Facebook 33, LinkedIn 39, MySpace 26
• 226 million job related searches on Google EACH MONTH
• 2/3 of the global internet population use social networks today (just recently eclipsed email as the top activity online)
• 300 million user profiles on FB (100 million new profiles in 6 months)
• 45 million user profiles on LI (1 million new users in 12 days)
• 200 million blogs on the internet (1 new blog every second)
• YouTube is now the #2 search engine on the web behind Google (not Bing, Yahoo, AskJeeves)
• 100 million videos viewed on YouTube every day (each person watches about 5 videos per month)
• 11% of the US population uses Twitter (3 million "tweets" per day)
• 100k+ employment websites on the internet
  

Analytics Report on MBA Class of 2009, 2010 and Alumni

MBA Focus™ connects the world's top-ranked MBA students and alumni with companies seeking top global leadership talent. We have compiled this analytical look at the top 50,000 MBA candidates from our school partners. This data covers first-year students planning to graduate in 2010, second-year students graduating this year, and experienced job-seeking alumni registered in our system:

First-Year Class of 2010 and Second-Year Class of 2009 Data
(The password for the above report is – Partners – and is case sensitive)

Experienced Alumni Data
(The password for the above report is – alumnipartners – and is case sensitive)

These reports include statistics on the following:

• Job Function Experience and Preference
  
• Industry Experience and Preference
• Geographic Experiences and Preference
• Language Abilities
• Work Authorization
• ... and more

Please take some time to review these reports. We trust you will find the analytical information enlightening and helpful as it relates to your leadership initiatives. If you have any questions or would like to speak with someone about these reports, please contact Bruce Lane at blane@mbafocus.com.

You can post jobs and order access to the resume of these candidates at the MBA Focus store here: https://www.mbafocus.com/orders