Tag Archive | "Job Search"
Career, Current, MBA
While students are still worried about landing post-graduate jobs in the tight job market, career service directors predict that 2010 may be “the year of the [MBA job market] turnaround,” reports BusinessWeek last week. Some of these encouraging signs include an increase of full-time MBA job postings—70% of schools saw a decrease in postings last [...]
Blog, Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, Interviews, MBA
Here are some news tidbits from last week:
BusinessWeek reported some good news last week regarding the job market, particularly for new college graduates. The National Association of Colleges and Employers reported a turnaround in college hiring. Surveys show that the recent economic recession hit college graduates ages 22 to 27 among the hardest. BW states [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, Interviews, MBA
According to a recent GMAC press release, MBA employers predict an upswing in company hiring for recent MBA graduates this coming year.
While the business climate of 2009 brought cut backs in MBA hiring, the GMAC poll, conducted in November 2009 and including feedback from 317 recruiters at 287 companies, shows that many employers plan on [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, MBA
The results of GMAC’s 2010 Alumni Perspective Survey are out! Let’s see how 2009 MBA graduates did.
84% of 2009 b-school graduates had secured jobs by graduation. While that is 4% lower than the last four years, it’s still impressive considering today’s market.
For their first post-grad job, ’09 alumni earned a median salary of $66,694 and [...]
Blog, Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, Fun Stuff, Interviews, MBA
The New Year heralds a new MBA round up! Let’s see what’s been going on in the world of college and MBA admissions so far in 2010:
The Wall Street Journal discusses Cambridge University’s potential decision to issue bonds in an effort to raise more than $320 million for property and infrastructure projects. The projects include [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
The GRE exam saw a 13% increase this year, says Deb Weinstein, author of Forbes‘ recent “Jobless Gen Ys Turn to Grad School,” reflecting that young adults are still considering the expensive option of graduate school, despite the economic recession.
One cause for the increase is attributed to the fact that GREs are now accepted by [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, MBA
Last week was packed with MBA admissions-related news. It’s time for a round up!
This MBA Podcaster video includes valuable information on Stanford’s MBA application and b-school experience, including an interview with Linda Abraham, Accepted’s founder and president, about the application process and Stanford’s essays, as well as up close and personal tidbits from Stanford students [...]
Bschool Life, Career, MBA
In “New Horizons for MBAs”, the Financial Times, reports that many MBA students are looking outside of traditional “MBA jobs” for work. Due to the current recession, job opportunities in financial services and investment banks are far more limited and MBAs are looking to use their skills in other fields.
Some interesting job recruitment statistics from around [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
Part of an ongoing series “MBA in Finance: Forget It?”
My question:
Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general, how do you react to applicants who say they want an MBA to enter IB, PE or a related field that has been devastated by the economic downturn? Is the reaction “What [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
My question:
Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general, how do you react to applicants who say they want an MBA to enter IB, PE or a related field that has been devastated by the economic downturn? Is the reaction “What planet have you been on?” Or, are you willing [...]
