I’ve interviewed and hired numerous MBA grads in my 20+ year banking and consulting career. The skills and experience required for each role vary, of course – in finance, expertise in specific finance concepts, models and tools might be a prerequisite, while in management consulting, business acumen and strategic thinking skills might be more relevant….
GMAC Releases Results of Year-End Employer Poll
GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) has completed their Year-End Poll of Employers for 2016. Participating in the survey were 167 recruiters representing 140 companies located in 27 countries throughout the world, with the majority located in the US. Responders included 36 companies in the Fortune 500, 21 of which are Fortune 100 companies. The poll…
GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey Results 2016
GMAC just released its 2016 Corporate Recruiters Survey Report. 109 graduate business schools participated in the GMAC survey in February and March of this year, and the survey reflects the responses of 842 employers from 530 companies in 40 countries around the world who recruit directly with the participating business schools. Here are some highlights…
2016 GMAC Alumni Perspectives Survey Report
GMAC released results from its 2016 Alumni Perspectives Survey, based on responses from 14,279 graduate business school alumni from 1980-2015, representing 275 programs in 70 universities at 20 worldwide locations. The survey examines the educational, professional, and personal outcomes of its respondents. ROI is measured based on employment rates, post-degree salary growth, job satisfaction, career…
Highlights from the Bloomberg Job Skills Report 2016
What are job recruiters looking for in their MBA hires? What skills are they looking for? What skills are hardest to find? 1,251 job recruiters at 547 companies were surveyed for the 2016 Bloomberg Job Skills Report about the skills they seek in job candidates and the b-schools that provide the best job candidates based…
Picking a Career, Interviewing Right, and More Job Talk [Episode 131]
So, what do you want to be when you grow up? And if you do know what your dream job is, how will you land it? We could think of no better person to join us for a talk about careers than Karin Ash, formerly director of the Career Management Center at Cornell’s Johnson School,…
Salaries Up for Berkeley Haas Class of 2013
An optimistic article on the Berkeley Haas website discusses the strong hiring market for its most recent graduating class. Here are some stats from the report: • 95% of the class reported that they received job offers by or within three months of graduation – this is the same as last year. • The average salary for…
MBA Applicants: What McKinsey (and HBS) Wants
They were looking for four things. I didn’t know until I’d made it to the third and last round of interviews, but McKinsey and Company, the strategy consulting firm perennially ranked among the top “dream” employers of MBA students, was looking for four specific qualities in the candidates they hired. By my calculations, McKinsey made…