MBA Focus™ 2008 White Paper: A Single Path to Hiring MBA Talent

We are excited to offer you our latest white paper, “A Single Path to Hiring MBA Talent: The expanded role of career services to students and alumni, and what it means to recruiters.”

Since the publication of last year’s white paper (“New Directions in MBA Recruiting”), it has become clear that the importance of career services offices to hiring firms has greatly increased. This year’s paper focuses on the fact that MBA career services offices are evolving, with increasing rapidity, to serve not only students from all three walks of MBA programs – part-time, full-time and executive – but also alumni.

Download the free 2008 White Paper from MBA Focus by clicking here: http://www.mbafocus.net/whitepaper

MBA Focus for Employers

Access Top MBA Candidates

MBA Focus™ has created a unique network of top-ranked graduate business schools for whom we provide career office technology. Because of this, global recruiting firms can access more than 40,000 pre-qualified business leaders from more than 60 MBA programs. The business acumen and work experience of these candidates is usually only accessible through executive search firms. Now, you can each these high-caliber professionals through multiple avenues:

Global Focus™

Our flagship product, Global Focus™ is a web-based leadership recruiting platform for worldwide candidate sourcing, outreach and tracking.Search through more than 40,000 resumes and work profiles of both MBA students and experienced alumni of these top programs. Read more

MBA MultiPost Job Boards

Post your job opportunities to over 50 graduate business school and alumni job boards at once with just a few clicks. Read more

Online Resume Books

Online resume books are searchable talent databases of a single class,program, or club from our leading network of graduate MBA programs. Many alumni hire one of their own using the MBA Focus™ online resume databases. Read more

MBA Focus™ Partner School List

For nearly 20 years, MBA Focus™ has been providing technology to the leading business schools around the globe. Our schools comprise the top-ranked programs in North America, Europe and Asia. See the list here.

Top 5 Harvard Business School Alumni

Harvard Business School, also known as HBS and one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, is a renowned business education school. This is a list of some of the more famous graduates of the MBA and executive program:

1. Michael Bloomberg, businessman and Mayor of New York City
2. George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
3. H. John Heinz III, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
4. Robert Kraft, Owner of the New England Patriots and Chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group
5. Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 presidential candidate

honorable mention: Patrick Bateman - a fictional character, the anti-hero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and its film adaptation.

from ListAfterList.com - Top 5 Harvard Business School Alumni

Graduating MBA Resumes Available for Search to Recruiters (September Release Dates)

New MBA and Alumni Resume Books Released!

The following graduate business schools’ resume book databases have been released (or will be released in the upcoming weeks) for you to begin searching and filtering though the world’s best MBA candidates. If you haven’t already ordered (or pre-ordered), you can now. Get a jump on your competition today!

Resume Books Available Now: (in alphabetical order)

Emory - Goizueta - Alumni - Released: 09/01/08 - Price: Free

Tulane - Freeman - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/01/08 - Price: Free

U. British Columbia - Sauder - Alumni - Released: 09/01/08 - Price: Free

Vanderbilt - Owen - Alumni - Released: 09/01/08 - Price: Free

WUSTL - Olin - Alumni - Released: 09/01/08 - Price: Free

Cornell - Johnson - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/05/08 - Price: $225.00

U. Pennsylvania - Wharton - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/05/08 - Price: $300.00

Boston College - Carroll - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/08/08 - Price: Free

Carnegie Mellon - Tepper - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/08/08 - Price: Free

Duke - Fuqua - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/08/08 - Price: $250.00

Harvard Business School - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/08/08 - Price: $300.00

Indiana - Kelley - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/08/08 - Price: Free

Ohio State - Fisher - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/08/08 - Price: Free

U. Iowa - Tippie - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/08/08 - Price: Free

Upcoming Resume Book Releases: (in order by release date)

Emory - Goizueta - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/10/08 - Price: Free

UC Irvine - Paul Merage - Class of 2009 - 09/10/08 - Price: Free

U. British Columbia - Sauder - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/11/08 - Price: Free

U. British Columbia - Sauder - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/11/08 - Price: Free

Rice - Jones - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/12/08 - Price: Free

Vanderbilt - Owen – Class of 2009 - Released: 09/12/08 - Price: Free

IESE – Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

LSU - E.J. Ourso - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

LSU - E.J. Ourso - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

MIT - Sloan - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: $250.00

Ohio State - Fisher - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

Temple - Fox - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

U. Cambridge - Judge - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

U. South Carolina - Moore - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

U. South Carolina - Moore - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

U. Southern California - Marshall - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: Free

Yale School of Management - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/15/08 - Price: $250.00

U. Wisconsin-Madison - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/17/08 - Price: Free

Syracuse - Whitman - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/19/08 - Price: Free

Syracuse - Whitman - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/19/08 - Price: Free

WUSTL - Olin - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/20/08 - Price: Free

Baruch - Zicklin - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/22/08 - Price: Free

Baruch - Zicklin - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/22/08 - Price: Free

Boston College - Carroll - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/22/08 - Price: Free

Rice - Jones - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/23/08 - Price: Free

Babson - Olin - Class of 2009 - Released: 09/26/08 - Price: Free

WUSTL - Olin - Class of 2010 - Released: 09/27/08 - Price: Free

*Go here for a full list of schools, resume databases available, prices, and release dates: http://www.mbafocus.net/resumepricesdates

Note: Many of these resume databases are offered as “All Candidate” combo packages for discount prices. For more information and pricing of combo packages, sign in to the Direct Order website here: https://www.MBAFocus.com/orders and/or click on the school of interest.

Top 5 MBA Internships

Looking for a great place to intern for the summer in between your two-year MBA program? You should try and get into one these intern programs:

1. Verizon College Intern Program
2. Sony Global Internships
3. Sun Internship Program
4. DOL MBA Internship Program
5. Toyota Intern Program

from ListAfterList.com - Top 10 MBA Internships

MBA Resume Book Releases for August

New MBA and Alumni Resume Books Released!

The following graduate business schools’ resume book databases have been released (or will be released in the upcoming week) for you to begin searching and filtering though the world’s best MBA candidates. If you haven’t already ordered (or pre-ordered), you can now. Get a jump on your competition today!

Resume Books Available Now: (in alphabetical order)

Chicago GSB - Class of 2009 - Price: $250.00
Chicago GSB - Alumni, Evening, EMBA - Price: Free
Columbia Business School - Class of 2009 - Price: $250.00
Dartmouth - Tuck - Alumni - Price: $500.00
Duke - Fuqua - Alumni - Price: $500.00
Notre Dame - Mendoza - Class of 2009 - Price: Free
North Carolina - Class of 2009 - Price: $250.00
Northwestern - Kellogg - Class of 2009 - Price: $250.00
Pennsylvania - Wharton - Experienced Hire - Price: $525.00
Texas at Austin - McCombs - Class of 2009 - Price: $225.00
UC Berkeley - Haas - Class of 2009 - Price: $400.00 (combo only)
UCLA Anderson - Experienced Hire - Price: $500.00
Singapore - NUS - Class of 2009 - Price: Free
Western Ontario - Ivey - Fall 2008 Graduates - Price: Free
Western Ontario - Ivey - Spring 2009 Graduates - Price: Free
Western Ontario - Ivey - HBA 2009 Permanent Recruiting - Price: Free

Upcoming Resume Book Releases: (in order by release date)

Dartmouth - Tuck - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/22/08 - Price: $250.00
Thunderbird - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/22/08 - Price: Free
UCLA Anderson - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/22/08 - Price: $250.00
Virginia - Darden - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/25/08 - Price: $250.00
NYU - Stern - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/25/08 - Price: $250.00
Stanford University GSB - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/27/08 - Price: $250.00
Vanderbilt - Owen - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/27/08 - Price: Free
Georgetown - McDonough - Class of 2009 - Release: 08/29/08 - Price: Free

*Go here for a full list of schools, resume databases available, prices, and release dates: http://www.mbafocus.net/resumepricesdates

Note: Many of these resume databases are offered as “All Candidate” combo packages for discount prices. For more information and pricing of combo packages, sign in to the Direct Order website here: https://www.MBAFocus.com/orders and/or click on the school of interest.

New Technology Gets Down to Work at Career Services Offices

Global Talent Systems™ is up and running – running various functions within the career services office, that is.

The new Global Talent Systems – which launched June 1 – serves as a single platform to automate any and all processes within the entire career services office. It effortlessly manages on-line resume books, job posting, employer relations, student activities and data, and reporting.

Although we developed Global Talent Systems as the single solution for all of our school partners, you can easily adapt it to your unique brand and specific needs. The technology is modular, enabling you to select particular components you want to use in your office. All components, such as job boards and on-line resume books, function independently or together.

“Global Talent Systems is the culmination of our years of experience in MBA recruiting, coupled with significant input from our school partners,” said MBA Focus chief executive officer Greg Ruf. “It revolutionizes day-to-day operation of career services, making it more efficient and much more effective in terms of serving students and alumni.”

For a demonstration or more information about the New Global Talent Systems, please contact MBA FOCUS

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

from- ListAfterList.com - 20 Rich Businessmen Without MBAs

Alumni Fortify Online Resume Books

An increasing number of schools are offering their alumni the opportunity to participate in online resume books – and put their names in front of recruiters seeking experienced candidates to fill the talent shortage.

Over the past year, some 20 school partners have begun promoting participation in specialized online resume books for alumni. And more than 13,000 alumni are currently enrolled.

The addition of alumni candidates enables schools to concurrently serve both former and current students and, ultimately receive well-deserved credit for connecting employer and candidate. Through increasing the total number of candidates – and creating the only single source of access to full-time, part-time and EMBA students as well as the growing number of experienced MBA leaders – MBA Focus and participating schools draw the maximum number of recruiters to the online resume books.

“We believe the database is a safe, confidential channel for our alumni to reach employers and find out about available positions,” said Matthew Temple, director of alumni career services for Kellogg School of Management. Over the past year, Kellogg has attracted approximately 1400 alumni to its online resume book.

MBA Focus guided many of the schools through the launch of their alumni registration programs and has established an alumni outreach team to help schools institute and market the program. The team introduces John Edwards, vice president, marketing, who helps schools promote the value of participation to alumni.

For more information on alumni participation, please contact MBA FOCUS

New Site Brings More Opportunities in Sight

An expanded MBA Focus Direct Order Site should bring more recruiters – and more job postings – to your students and alumni.

Launched in conjunction with the revamped MBA Focus Web site, the Direct Order Site includes access to individual online resume books from additional top MBA schools outside the U.S. The addition of more Asian and European schools is intended to draw local employers from their global markets to review candidates from all schools, including yours.

The MBA Focus Web site, including the Direct Order Site, go live the first of June.

And beginning August 1, the site also will introduce our first-of-its-kind MultiPost capability. Through MultiPost, employers can post jobs to all participating MBA Focus partner schools for both student and alumni recruiting with a few mouse clicks. MultiPost makes it easy for employers to post jobs to all schools, increasing opportunities for your students and alumni.

As always, schools retain the ability to approve postings through MultiPost before they are viewed by students and alumni.

For more information on the Direct Order Site or MultiPost, please contact MBA Focus