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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Top 10 biggest challenges for MBA CSOs in 2013

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:

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

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Ten obstacles for MBA recruiters in 2013

Every recruiter deals with the challenges of the current economic state -- not enough time, money, or resources -- but beyond those basic pains MBA recruiters must also deal with these more complicated issues.

Despite predicted improvements to the MBA recruitment landscape in 2013, many employers will still lack simple solutions to the following problems:

1. Finding leadership talent that matches your company's culture.
2. Keeping your company's brand top-of-mind when candidates start seeking.
3. Finding up-to-date resumes and job-seeker profiles.
4. Making a personal connection...

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Top 10 social networks to reconnect with the "New Class" of MBAs

Are you looking for a way to reconnect with MBAs your career service office has lost touch with? Social networks are the best source to find those graduates and rebuild meaningful relationships with them. Try interacting with them via:

1. Facebook: With over 1 billion active users and more than 42 million pages with 10 or more likes, Facebook is the perfect place to connect with MBAs. Your school/program should have its own Facebook page that candidates can “like” and get daily updates on relevant news and events. By creating an official Facebook page for your school, you can easily reach people who are specifically interested in what you have to say.

2. Twitter: Twitter is a proven marketing tool and an effective outreach device. Many schools have a presence on Twitter. And some even have multiple accounts, including an entire recruiter-oriented presence (i.e. @HBSRecruitMBA). Your candidates are already using Twitter to communicate, research, promote and personally brand themselves – you should be doing the same for your school’s/program’s brand. Take a moment each day to tweet about something relevant or interesting.

3. LinkedIn: Where Facebook is considered a more personal space, LinkedIn has been defined as the “professional” social network. Use LinkedIn to connect with students and alumni from your school. You should not only create a LinkedIn group for your program, but also create subgroups for each class year, to better connect (and stay connected) with your program’s job-seeking candidates.

4. Google+: Google+ is the ...

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Series 7, Series 63 and Pilots License: Top 10 Most Popular Certifications and Licenses for MBAs

In addition to 6+ years advancing their education, many MBAs also attain other certifications and licenses to further prepare themselves for the business world ahead.

It should also come as no surprise that finance certifications and licenses lead the pack. But you might be interested to see what else makes the list, including: Security Clearance, Real Estate License, Pilot License, and Architect License.

Out of 71,325 MBA students and alumni currently in our database, and 9,610 who answered this career profile question, here is what we found:

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Finance, Consulting, and Entrepreneurship: Top 10 Function Preferences for the MBAs

Second-year MBA student registration is closed for most of our partner programs, and today, more than 10,000 graduating MBA students from 60+ of the world's top-ranked graduate business schools have uploaded their resumes and created career profiles with MBA Focus. 

We already know which industries the new batch of MBAs are interested in -- but which functions do they prefer? As expected more than 1/4 of them are interested in finance. And over 18% want to be in management. But number three might surprise you.

Here are their top ten most preferred functions according to the MBA class of 2012 career profiles in our database:

Wondering which functions didn't make the top ten? Or where sales landed on the list? Check out MBAFocus.com for a complete summary of all of the MBA2s function preferences.

Financial, Consulting, and Tech: Top 10 Industry Preferences for the MBA Class of 2012

Second-year MBA student registration is closed for most of our partner programs, and today, more than 10,000 graduating MBA students from 60+ of the world's top-ranked graduate business schools have uploaded their resumes and created career profiles with MBA Focus.

This year's graduating class of MBA2s are the future business leaders of the world. They will be CEOs, CFOs, executive managers, directors, and VPs of huge Fortune 500 companies as well as start-up entrepreneurial businesses. But what types of industries are they interested in? As expected, nearly 1/4 of the MBA2 population is interested in financial companies. And more than 16% are interested in consulting. But the next three might surprise you.

Here are the top ten most preferred industries according to the class of 2012 MBA student career profiles in our database:
 

Wondering which industries didn't make the top ten? Or where the nonprofits landed on the list? Visit MBAFocus.com for a complete breakdown of their industry preferences.

Top 10 Most Important Career Profile Attributes

More than 1,200 recruiters used the Global Focus MBA recruitment technology last year to search and source the perfect candidates for their hiring needs. Within that technology, these recruiters performed more than 35,000 advanced searches by selecting more than 600,000 profile attributes to define their perfect candidate. These were the top ten most selected profile attributes:

1. Class Year  =  Graduating MBAs  -  16,392
2. Class Year  =  MBA Interns  -  13,979
3. Work Authorization  =  United States  -  12,537
4. Program  =  Full-time MBA  -  9,214
5. Class Year  =  Experienced MBAs  -  8,689
6. Language Ability  =  Basic/Conversant  -  6,443
7. Total Years of Work Experience  =  5 - 10 Years  -  5,154
8. Function - Experience  =  Brand / Product Management  -  4,578
9. Function - Experience  =  Corporate Finance  -  4,339
10. Function - Experience  =  Analyst / Research  -  3,885

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Top 100 “Most Desired” MBA Employers Looking to Hire You!

Universum IDEAL™ has just released its annual list of the "most desired" companies to work for according to a survey of over 6,000 respondents from 58 top MBA programs around the world. Once again, Google takes the top spot (for the third year in a row). Here is the rest of the top 10:

1. Google

2. McKinsey & Company

3. Bain & Company

4. Goldman Sachs

5. Apple Computer

6. The Boston Consulting Group

7. Walt Disney

8. Nike

9. J.P. Morgan

10. Johnson & Johnson

See the rest of the list at: http://www.wetfeet.com/universumrankings/MBA-2009.aspx

Are you an MBA looking for a job from these top MBA employers? Are you a student or alumni from one of the top MBA programs in the world? Then you can find job postings and post your resume to an exclusive network of MBAs and companies like these at http://www.mbafocus.net/alumni

For two decades, the MBA Focus team has provided advanced recruitment technology to the world’s top-ranked graduate business schools. These schools count on us for their online resume books, job boards and office automation needs. In partnership with them, we have created a single network for employers to access elite MBA students and alumni.

Thousands of Recruiters from the World’s Top Employers

These employers are Fortune 500 companies and big-name MBA employers, like Amazon, Avery Dennison, Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, McKinsey and Company, and Medtronic. In fact, more than 2500 recruiters, representing over 60 top firms, use MBA Focus regularly – and over 1800 other MBA hiring firms order resumes and post jobs through MBA Focus on an annual basis.

Are you in the position to hire a fellow alumnus? You too can post a job or search resumes! Get access to this elite pool of business talent at https://www.mbafocus.com/orders

Top 10 Business Schools in Asia

1. Melbourne Business School
2. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
3. Asian Institute of Management (Philippines)
4. Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (School of Management)
5. NUS Business School (National University of Singapore)
6. Chinese University of Hong Kong
7. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Graduate School of Management)
8. Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Australia)
9. Nanyang Business School (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
10. Sasin Graduate Institute of Business and Administration (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

Top 10 Business Schools in Europe

1. Insead (France)
2. LBS (UK)
3. IMD (Switz)
4. IESE (Spain)
5. Rotterdam (Netherlands)
6. Empresa (Spain)
7. Said, Oxford (UK)
8. Manchester (UK)
9. SDA Bocconi (Italy)
10. Warwick (UK)

Top 10 Business Schools

1. Chicago Booth
2. Harvard
3. Northwestern Kellogg
4. UPenn Wharton
5. Michigan Ross
6. Stanford
7. Columbia
8. Duke Fuqua
9. MIT Sloan
10. UC-Berkeley Haas

Top 10 Best Bars in Ann Arbor

Anyone attending the Ross Business School should check out these local bars:

1. Zanzibar
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Grizzly Peak
4. The Brown Jug
5. Mitch’s Place
6. Ashley’s
7. Conner O’Neills
8. Old Towne Tavern
9. Scorekeepers
10. Rick’s American Cafe

Top 10 Best Restaurants at and around Cornell University

1. Nine’s Pizza
2. The Boatyard
3. Just a Taste - Wine & Tapas
4. Djion- A French Bistro
5. Mexicali Rose
6. Viva
7. Rogue’s Harbor Inn
8. Ithaca Ale House
9. Sushi O Sake
10. ABC Cafe (Great Sunday Brunch)

Top 10 Wineries Near the Cornell - Johnson Business School

Hey visiting recruiters, professors, career service officers, enrolled MBAs, and returning alums, these are the top ten wineries on the Cayuga Lake wine trail in upstate New York:

1. Sheldrake Point Winery & Simply Red Bistro - 7448 County Road 153, Ovid, NY, 14521 - Website: www.sheldrakepoint.com
2. Hosmer Winery - 6999 Route 89, Ovid, NY, 14521 - Website: www.hosmerwinery.com
3. Knapp Vineyards - 2770 County Road 128, Romulus, NY, 14541 - Website: www.knappwine.com
4. Goose Watch Winery - 5480 State Route 89, Romulus, NY, 14541-9769 - Website: http://www.goosewatch.com
5. Treleaven / King Ferry Winery - 658 Lake Road, King Ferry, NY, 13081 - Website: www.treleavenwines.com
6. Long Point Winery - 1485 Lake Road, Aurora, NY, 13026 - Website: www.longpointwinery.com
7. Bellwether Hard Cider - 9070 Route 89, Trumansburg, NY, 14886 - Website: www.cidery.com
8. Lucas Vineyards - 3862 County Road 150, Interlaken, NY, 14847 - Website: www.lucasvineyards.com
9. Lakeshore Winery - 5132 Route 89, Romulus, NY, 14541 - Website: www.lakeshorewinery.com
10. Cayuga Ridge Estate Winery - 6800 Route 89, Elm Beach, Ovid, NY, 14521 - Website: www.cayugaridgewinery.com

Top 10 Famous Graduates of Chicago GSB

The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, also known as Chicago GSB, is one of the leading business schools in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the first to offer the Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Here are ten of the most famous alumni of this business school:

	Jon Winkelried, President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs
	Michael Larson, Investment Manager of Bill Gates
	Ann Mukherjee, Vice President of Marketing at Pepsico
	Kenneth Feldman, Vice President for loyalty and e-commerce at United Airlines
	Tom Schoewe, CFO of Wal-Mart, the largest corporation in the world by sales according to the Fortune Global 500
	Don Civgin, CFO of OfficeMax
	Mark Loughridge, CFO of IBM
	Jon Corzine, Governor of New Jersey, and former CEO of Goldman Sachs
	Jennifer Ceran, Vice President and Treasurer of eBay
	Robert Whittington, Chief Information Officer at Wendy’s
	Richard H. Steiner, Broadway producer, three-time Tony Award winner (Hairspray, The Producers, and Big River)

Best Places for MBA’s to Work

If you are a MBA graduate student, or recent graduate from one of the world’s top MBA schools, you should try and get a job at one of these major corporations:

	Adobe Systems
	ADP
	Alghanim Industries
	Amazon.com
	American Capital
	Atlas Ventures
	Bain & Company
	Bain Capital
	BASF
	The Boston Consulting Group
	Booz Allen Hamilton
	Capital Group
	Corporate Executive Board
	Credit Suisse
	Deloitte
	Dell
	Deutsche Bank
	ECG Mgmt Consulting
	Ecolab
	Eli Lilly and Company
	Ernst & Young
	Fidelity Management
	Goldman Sachs
	Google
	HCL America
	HSBC
	Human
	InBev
	Intel Corporation
	Johnson and Johnson
	JPMorgan
	KPMG
	L.E.K. Consulting
	Lehman Brothers
	Liberty Mutual
	Limited Brands
	L’Oreal USA
	M&T Bank
	McKinsey & Company
	Medtronic
	Merrill Lynch
	L.E.K. Consulting
	Lehman Brothers
	Liberty Mutual
	Limited Brands
	L’Oreal USA
	M&T Bank
	McKinsey & Company
	Medtronic
	Merrill Lynch
	Morgan Stanley
	Nationwide
	Noble
	PG&E
	Philips
	PIMCO
	Roche Diagnostics
	SAP
	Silverpoint Capital
	Staples
	Target Corporation
	UBS
	Wachovia
	Wellington
	Whirlpool Corporation

20 Rich Businessmen Without MBAs

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need an MBA to become a CEO of a major corporation:

• Marc Cenedella
• Guy Kawasaki
• Larry Ellison
• William Gordon
• Jon Huntsman, Sr.
• Henry Mintzberg
• Ross Perot
• Carl Hiassen
• Ian Bruce Eichner
• Christine Comaford
• Jim McCann
• Mark Astone
• Bill Gates
• Arthur Taylor
• Leonard Lauder
• Kris Chellam
• Ann Winblad
• Paul Fleming
• Grace Murray Hopper
• Warren Buffett

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