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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Thanking all the Thanksgiving-related candidates in our database

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we'd like to thank all of our corporate clients and school partners for your ongoing business and support. And this year, we’d like to give thanks to all of the wonderful job-seeking MBA candidates participating in our database—we enjoy having the opportunity to work with you and we commend you for your academic and professional accomplishments.

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. But did you know that several other places around the world observe similar celebrations? It’s true. Below is a list of countries which celebrate Thanksgiving and the number of candidates in our database who are authorized to work in each of those countries:

• United States: 52,364 candidates
• Canada: 1,703
• Germany: 511
• Grenada: ...

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Veterans make great business leaders

Veterans make great business leaders. Employers know it. As a result, veteran recruiting goals have grown exponentially over the past few years. And as more and more military veterans return home after serving our country abroad, they are heading to graduate business schools to earn their MBA.

Today, 15% of the MBA students currently at the world's top business schools have military experience. Of the 21,295 resumes currently in our database:

• 1,046 mention the word "Military"
• 709 Army
• 439 Navy
• 288...

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Top industries for the graduating class of 2013 MBA2s

We've already broken down the job functions for this year's graduating class of MBA2s. But what about the job industry experiences and preferences?

Similar to the functional areas, most MBAs are interested and experienced in jobs in Finance. Roughly 2 out of 5 graduating MBA students have experience in the Finance industry. And almost half of them are interested in working in Finance post-graduation. This is no different from previous years. But there are some changes to the next nine industries on the list.

The top 10 industry experiences for this year's graduating class of 2013 MBA2s are:

• 1. Finance: 38.1% 
• 2. Consulting: 30.8%
• 3. High Tech: 24.9%
• 4. Not-for-Profit...

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Top functions for the graduating class of 2013 MBA2s

The class of 2013 MBA students have just recently arrived back on campus to start their second year of business school, but they're already well on their way to their new career next summer. And despite the current economic landscape and upcoming political events, not much has changed when it comes the functional experiences and preferences of the world's top MBAs.

Whether they're career accelerators or career changers, most of them have already updated their resumes, completed their job-seeker profiles, and by now they've even started interviewing for jobs.

So what are these current MBA students interested in? Our job-seeker profiles -- used by more than 70 of the world's top graduate business schools -- offer some insight into their job function preferences and experiences.

Not surprisingly, this year's graduating class of 2013 MBA students is most experienced in Finance and these six other functional areas:

1. Finance: 42.8% of candidates selected a Finance-related functional experience
2. Marketing: 35.7%
3. Management: 35.4%
4. Consulting...

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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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The annual MBA recruitment cycle

Every year, a new class of MBA students arrives at graduate business schools around the world. And every year, a new class of business leaders graduate from those schools. And though every year, the students' demographics change and the schools' curriculums are updated, one thing remains the same -- the MBA recruitment cycle.

Here is how those involved in that annual MBA recruitment cycle spend each academic year:

June:
Preparing for upcoming recruiting season.

July:
Scheduling for on-campus recruiting events.

August:
Sourcing ...

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Twice as many MBA job postings

Job-seeking MBAs at our partner schools can find more than twice as many MBA job postings than candidates at the business schools outside our network; because being part of our school network also means you're part of our MultiPost job distribution network.

MultiPost delivers hundreds of new and diverse MBA-required jobs each month. How? MultiPost receives jobs from multiple sources (including other top schools in our network) and distributes those jobs to our partner school's job boards. Our GTS partner schools receive all the MultiPost jobs as part of their school’s primary job board; but even if you're career service office is not powered by GTS, candidates can access the MBA Focus job board as a secondary resource.

With MultiPost, all jobs are approved before being posted to assure candidates are seeing only the best opportunities. And now, with our revolutionary new JobMatch technology, when candidates register and/or log into the system, candidates will be notified of jobs that match their career profile.

Here's a sample of the MBA-required/preferred jobs that were posted to our exclusive network of top MBA talent last recruiting season via MultiPost:


Job Postings by Function:
Accounting - 76
Administration - 59
Business Development - 221
Buyer / Merchandising - 36
Consulting - 375
Corporate Development - 87
Economic Analysis / Research - 67
Education (Administrator/ Faculty) - 37
Engineering...

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MBA Focus: 20+ Years in MBA Recruitment Technology

In partnership with the world’s top-ranked graduate business schools, MBA Focus has created the most comprehensive recruiting network available. For more than two decades, these school partners—and the companies that employ their students and alumni—look to us for advanced recruiting technology solutions, best practices, and innovation.

Here is a quick history of MBA Focus:

• 1987 – Company founded to create Computerized Career Services Offices
• 1991 – Pioneering partnership with Harvared Business School to distribute the first searchable MBA CV database
• 1992 – Partnerships with majority of top North American MBA programs and several top European Programs
• 1996 – Created MBA Quick Search recruiter product with all CV’s in one searchable resume database
• 2004 – Launched new Career Management Solution (CMS) with Kellogg School of Management
• 2006 – Hosted first annual Connections Conference
• 2007 – Started to serve all MBA candidate populations including alumni
• 2007 – Publishes white paper on "New Directions in MBA Recruiting"
• 2008 – Hosted first MBACSC Europe Conference
• 2008 – Launched new Global Talent System (GTS) product for MBA career service offices
• 2008 – Publishes white paper on "A Single Path to Hire MBA Talent"
• 2008 – Saved over 75 trees per year by no longer offering printed resume books
• 2009 – Introduced new MultiPost network to distribute jobs to 60+ schools at once
• 2010 – Grew to service over 50,000 job-seeking candidates
• 2011 – Partnered with InterviewStream to integrate virtual interviewing into MBA recruitment process at top b-schools
• 2011 – Launched new www.MBAFocus.com website for employers, schools, and candidates
• 2011 – Expanded focus to high-potential undergraduate talent with Global Focus "U"
• 2012 – Created first Mobile App for candidates to manage MBA recruitment process on-the-go
• 2012 – Hosted first National Energy Forum MBA recruitment event at Houston's Bauer College of Business
• 2012 – Launched the all-new Global Focus 3.0 MBA recruitment product
• 2012 – Announced innovative new JobMatch technology to automatically match job postings with job-seeking candidates

MBA Focus Mobile App Version 2.0

Are you a job-seeking MBA from one of our top-ranked partner schools? If so, then you belong to the most exclusive MBA recruitment network available. Get the most out of your school’s career management offerings with the MBA Focus app. Just create a mobile account within your school’s career service candidate registration system. Then log in to manage all your career service and on-campus recruitment processes on-the-go.

MBA Focus is an exclusive network used to connect leading employers with the world's top-ranked graduate business schools. Our partnerships with the world’s leading graduate business schools, together with our industry-leading recruitment management technology products, make us the #1 choice of companies seeking top MBA talent.

This mobile app allows MBAs to connect with thousands of recruiters from the world’s leading MBA employers.

Once you've created your career profile and uploaded your resume, use MBA Focus v2.0 to
» Check "Announcements"
» View "My Calendar"
» Search the "Company / Contact" file
» Search for "Jobs"
» View "Hot-Lists" with full functionality
» View "Company Details" and all "Contacts" for specified companies

*Functionality varies by school. Contact your school's career service office for details.

IMPORTANT: You must first create a mobile account within your school’s Career Service candidate registration system. After that, make sure your profile is always up-to-date and available to companies searching for their next generation of business leaders.

Interested? Here's the Step-by-Step Guide for Job-Seeking Candidates and the links to the apps:

Apple AppStore    |    Google Play / Android    |    Blackberry App World