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Top 10 apps for b-school campus 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. 6... Continue reading on mbafocus.com

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Top 10 mobile apps for MBAs

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. 6.... Continue reading at mbafocus.com

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Top 5 ways to improve your job-seeker profile on a GTS powered career services portal

You've undoubtedly completed a handful of online profiles over the past 5 years. You have a Facebook profile, a Twitter bio, a LinkedIn resume, and maybe even a MySpace account. You've also probably created profiles on your favorite news and shopping sites. These profiles are a dime-a-doze, with standard questions (i.e. favorite quotes, movies, job title, interests, and accomplishments) and generic information for the general public. Anyone can signup, and everyone's profile looks the same. It is not a niche network or an exclusive club. The MBA Focus network is as exclusive as it gets. Only top-ranked b-schools and elite MBA students or alumni from those programs can join. Plus every MBA employer who wants access to this top talent must first be approved by each school's career service office. But even with such limited competition, it can be hard to stand out as an elite job-seeking MBA candidate. The MBA Focus job-seeker profile is designed to help you differentiate yourself from other MBAs with similar resumes. Here are five tips to improve your profile:

Be Complete: Don't just complete the required sections. Fill out as many fields as you can, including the top 5 most searched-on profile attributes: Geographic Preference, Industry Experience, Function Experience, Function Preference, Industry Preference.

Be Accurate: Don't just select...

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[Infographic] MBA recruitment process in a digital age

MBA recruitment is a structured and complex process. Career service offices layout strict rules for on-campus-recruiting. Plus there are thousands of MBA students at hundreds of graduate business schools around the world! So reaching this elite leadership talent can be a difficult task. Today, recruiters use a mixture of traditional on-campus, in-person recruitment methods and new digital recruitment tools to aid them in this complex process. This infographic, "Digital MBA Recruitment: Top 10 recruiting tasks done by device," gives you a glimpse into how leading MBA employers are recruiting top MBA talent. We surveyed over 500 recruiters from our network to get this information. If you like the infographic, please share it on Facebook and Twitter, "Pin" it, “Like” it, and feel free to use it on your website and/or blog.

Here are some other quick, tweetable facts from our findings:

Only 16 percent of MBA recruiters currently use a specialized mobile recruiting app. Tweet this!

Email is still the most often used form of communication in MBA recruiting. Tweet this!

Viewing resumes is the 3rd most often performed task by MBA recruiters. Tweet this!

More MBA recruiters are viewing resumes on computers or mobile device than printed paper. Tweet this!

MBA recruiters primarily still use pen & paper to take notes during interviews. Tweet this!

29 percent of MBA recruiters are using video interviewing technology. Tweet this!

MBA recruiters prefer using a mobile device at on-campus recruiting events. Tweet this!

Only 8 percent of MBA recruiters are supplied with a tablet by their company. Tweet this!

Less than 10 percent of MBA recruiters use QR codes as part of their recruitment process. Tweet this!

1 in 3 MBA recruiters will visit 6 or more graduate business schools this year. Tweet this!

1 in 5 corporate recruiters will hire 10+ MBAs this year. Tweet this!

The average cost to hire an MBA is $10,000.00. Tweet this!

For more information on our digital MBA recruitment tools and an all-new mobile app for recruiters coming this fall, please contact us.

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MBA class of 2015 & 2016 resume book release dates

Trying to hire the best MBA students from the world's best business schools? There are a dozen things you need to do to attract top leadership talent, but being the first to contact them, the first to shake their hand, and the first to offer them a job will certainly help. To do so, you need to get access to their school's resume database the moment it is released to employers. But please also be aware that many highly-ranked schools have strict policies and dates around early recruitment of their students. It is in your firm’s best interest to familiarize yourself with each of the school's policies. Visit the "More Info for Recruiters" page of their .edu website for more information. Here are the release dates for each of our partner school's new class of 2015 and 2016 MBA student resume databases:

Chicago - Booth: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students:  8/8/2014

Columbia Business School: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/15/2014

Northwestern - Kellogg: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/15/2014

Pepperdine - Graziadio: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 8/15/2014

Pepperdine - Graziadio: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/15/2014

Rice - Jones: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/15/2014

UC Berkeley - Haas: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/15/2014

UCLA - Anderson: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/18/2014

Yale School of Management: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/18/2014

Boston University - School of Management: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/20/2014

NYU - Stern: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/22/2014

Stanford GSB: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/22/2014

UC Irvine - Merage: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/23/2014

Harvard Business School: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/26/2014

Cornell - Johnson: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/27/2014

Indiana - Kelley: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/27/2014

Dartmouth - Tuck: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/29/2014

Duke - Fuqua: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/29/2014

Wake Forest Schools of Business: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 8/29/2014

Wake Forest Schools of Business: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 8/29/2014

Boston University - School of Management: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/2/2014

Maryland - Smith: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/3/2014

UC San Diego - Rady: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/3/2014

Georgia - Terry: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/4/2014

Virginia - Darden: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/4/2014

Dartmouth - Tuck: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/8/2014

Syracuse - Whitman: Academic Year 2014-2015: 9/8/2014

USC - Marshall: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/8/2014

UT Austin - McCombs: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/8/2014

Carnegie Mellon - Tepper: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/10/2014

Case Western - Weatherhead: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/10/2014

SMU - Cox: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/10/2014

Tennessee - College of Business: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/10/2014

Tennessee - College of Business: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/10/2014

Arizona State - Carey: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/11/2014

Arizona State - Carey: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/11/2014

TCU - Neeley: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/11/2014

TCU - Neeley: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/11/2014

Pittsburgh - Katz: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/12/2014

Pittsburgh - Katz: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/12/2014

Rice - Jones: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/12/2014

Tulane - Freeman: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/12/2014

Tulane - Freeman: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/12/2014

Boston College - Carroll: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/15/2014

Maryland - Smith: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/15/2014

MIT - Sloan: MBA, LGO, MSMS 2015: 9/15/2014

Singapore Management University: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/15/2014

Washington - Foster: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/15/2014

Wisconsin - Madison: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/15/2014

Wisconsin - Madison: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/15/2014

Iowa - Tippie: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/16/2014

Iowa - Tippie: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/16/2014

Georgetown - McDonough: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/17/2014

Utah - Eccles: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/17/2014

Utah - Eccles: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/17/2014

Florida - Hough: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/18/2014

Florida - Hough: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/18/2014

Georgia - Terry: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/18/2014

Willamette - Atkinson: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/18/2014

Minnesota - Carlson: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/19/2014

Boston College - Carroll: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/22/2014

Brandeis International: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 9/22/2014

Case Western - Weatherhead: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/30/2014

SMU - Cox: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 9/30/2014

Washington - Foster: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/2/2014

CUHK: MBA Programs Class of 2015 (2nd Year) & Class of 2016 (1st Year): 10/3/2014

USC - Marshall:Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/6/2014

UT Austin - McCombs: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/13/2014

Brandeis International: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/14/2014

Minnesota - Carlson: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/14/2014

Yale School of Management: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/15/2014

Harvard Business School: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/16/2014

Duke - Fuqua: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/17/2014

Georgetown - McDonough: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/22/2014

Indiana - Kelley: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/22/2014

Virginia - Darden: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/23/2014

Willamette - Atkinson: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/23/2014

HEC Paris: Class of 2016: 10/27/2014

Columbia Business School: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/29/2014

NYU - Stern: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/29/2014

Northwestern - Kellogg: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 10/31/2014

Arizona State - Carey: Masters Programs: 11/3/2014

Stanford GSB: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/3/2014

UC San Diego - Rady: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/3/2014

Cornell - Johnson: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/4/2014

Chicago - Booth: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/7/2014

UC Irvine - Merage: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/8/2014

MIT - Sloan: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/10/2014

UC Berkeley - Haas: Academic Year 2014-2015 - In Progress: 11/10/2014

Carnegie Mellon - Tepper: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/12/2014

UCLA - Anderson: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 11/13/2014

HKUST: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: 12/15/2014

HKUST: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: 12/15/2014

AIM: Class of 2014 (FT Employment): TBD

AIM: Class of 2015 (Internship Employment): TBD

Notre Dame - Mendoza: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: TBD

Notre Dame - Mendoza: Class of 2015 – Internship Seeking Students: TBD

Rochester - Simon: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: TBD

Rochester - Simon: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: TBD

Sacramento State: MBA, MSA and IMBA Book - 2014-2015: TBD

Toronto - Rotman: Class of 2016 – Internship Seeking Students: TBD

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students: TBD

Resume databases available now:

Australian Graduate School of Management: FT MBA 2014-2015

Australian Graduate School of Management: MBA Hong Kong 2014-2015

CUHK: MBA Programs Class of 2014 (2nd Year) & Class of 2015 (1st Year)

Georgia State - Robinson: Graduate Students

HEC Paris: Class of 2014

HEC Paris: Class of 2015

Singapore Management University: Class of 2014 Seeking Full-Time Employment

Toronto - Rotman: Class of 2015 – Full-time Seeking Students

Resume databases only available to our Global Focus partners:

CEIBS

Erasmus - Rotterdam

Emory - Goizueta

IESE

IMD

Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

INSEAD

Michigan - Ross (current students)

Penn State - Smeal

Purdue - Krannert

Texas A&M - Mays

Note: Release dates subject to change. Visit our web store for the most recently updated release dates and to view other professional associations, Masters programs, and alumni resume database offerings.

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Release Dates for the Class of 14/15 MBA Student Databases

Get ready! The class of 2014 & 2015 MBA student resume books will be available to employers soon. Pre-order today to get access the moment the schools release it to employers! Our partner schools' career service offices are currently reviewing all of their 1st- and 2nd-year MBA students' resumes & profiles in preparation for the 2013-14 MBA recruiting season. Once complete, their online resume books will be released to recruiters. Below is a list of release dates for each school and class year. These dates are subject to change. Pre-ordering each resume book ensures you get access to this top MBA talent the moment it is released to employers. To get started, just go to the Resume Books page on our website or click on a school link below: School                                                         Class Year / Program                           Release Date        Notre Dame - Mendoza Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/1/2013 Chicago Booth Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/5/2013 AGSM Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/12/2013 Houston - Bauer Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/12/2013 Houston - Bauer Class of 2015 - 1st Year 8/12/2013 UC Berkeley - Haas Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/12/2013 Yale SOM Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/12/2013 Columbia Business School Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/16/2013 Michigan - Ross (Global Focus-only) Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/16/2013 Northwestern - Kellogg Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/16/2013 Toronto - Rotman Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/16/2013 Pittsburgh - Katz  Class of 2015 - 1st Year 8/19/2013 Pittsburgh - Katz  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/19/2013 Rice - Jones  Class of 2015 - 1st Year 8/19/2013 Rice - Jones  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/19/2013 Rochester - Simon Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/19/2013 Ohio State - Fisher Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/22/2013 NYU - Stern  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/23/2013 Stanford GSB Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/23/2013 UC Irvine - Merage Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/23/2013 UCLA - Anderson Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/23/2013 Indiana - Kelley  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/26/2013 UCSD - Rady Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/26/2013 Virginia - Darden  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/26/2013 Cornell - Johnson  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/27/2013 Harvard Business School  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/27/2013 Emory - Goizueta Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/28/2013 Emory - Goizueta Class of 2015 - 1st Year 8/28/2013 Florida State Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/28/2013 Florida State Class of 2015 - 1st Year 8/28/2013 Ohio State - Fisher Class of 2015 - 1st Year 8/29/2013 Dartmouth - Tuck  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/30/2013 Duke - Fuqua Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/30/2013 Georgia - Terry Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/30/2013 Texas - McCombs Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 8/30/2013 Syracuse - Whitman Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/6/2013 Syracuse - Whitman Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/6/2013 Case Western - Weatherhead  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/6/2013 USC - Marshall  Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/6/2013 Wake Forest Schools of Business Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/6/2013 Wake Forest Schools of Business Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/6/2013 Carnegie Mellon - Tepper Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/10/2013 Dartmouth - Tuck Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/10/2013 Tulane - Freeman Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/10/2013 Tulane - Freeman Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/10/2013 Pepperdine - Graziadio Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/11/2013 TCU - Neeley Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/11/2013 TCU - Neeley Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/11/2013 Georgia - Terry Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/13/2013 Boston College - Carroll Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/15/2013 Brandeis International Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/15/2013 HEC - Paris Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/15/2013 London Business School Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/16/2013 MIT - Sloan Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/16/2013 Penn State - Smeal (Global Focus-only) Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/19/2013 Penn State - Smeal (Global Focus-only) Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/19/2013 Minnesota - Carlson Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/19/2013 Washington - Foster Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/19/2013 Boston College - Carroll Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/20/2013 Sacramento State Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/25/2013 Sacramento State Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/25/2013 Case Western - Weatherhead Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/27/2013 Texas - McCombs Class of 2015 - 1st Year 9/27/2013 Wisconsin-Madison Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 9/30/2013 Arizona State - Carey Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 10/1/2013 Arizona State - Carey Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/1/2013 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 10/2/2013 Washington - Foster Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/2/2013 CUHK Class of 2014 - 2nd Year 10/4/2013 CUHK Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/4/2013 Rochester - Simon Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/7/2013 Wisconsin-Madison Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/7/2013 Pepperdine - Graziadio Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/9/2013 Notre Dame - Mendoza Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/10/2013 USC - Marshall Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/11/2013 Yale SOM Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/11/2013 Indiana - Kelley Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/14/2013 Minnesota - Carlson Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/14/2013 Brandeis International Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/15/2013 Harvard Business School Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/17/2013 Duke - Fuqua Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/18/2013 London Business School Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/28/2013 NYU - Stern  Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/30/2013 Virginia - Darden  Class of 2015 - 1st Year 10/31/2013 HEC - Paris Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/1/2013 UCLA - Anderson Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/4/2013 UCSD - Rady Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/4/2013 Cornell - Johnson Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/5/2013 Chicago - Booth Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/8/2013 Michigan - Ross (Global Focus-only) Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/8/2013 Toronto - Rotman Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/8/2013 UC Irvine - Merage Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/8/2013 Carnegie Mellon - Tepper Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/11/2013 MIT - Sloan Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/11/2013 UC Berkeley - Haas Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/12/2013 Northwestern - Kellogg Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/15/2013 Stanford GSB Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/15/2013 Columbia Business School Class of 2015 - 1st Year 11/20/2013 AIM Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD AIM Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Colorado State Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Colorado State Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Iowa - Tippie Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Iowa - Tippie Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Denver- Daniels Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Denver- Daniels Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Florida - Hough Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Florida - Hough Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Georgetown - McDonough Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Georgetown - McDonough Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD HKUST Business School Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD HKUST Business School Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Hult International Class of 2014 - Graduates TBD IESE (Global Focus-only) Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD IESE (Global Focus-only) Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Illinois Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Illinois Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Maryland - Smith Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Maryland - Smith Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Michigan State - Broad Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Michigan State - Broad Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Purdue - Krannert (Global Focus-only) Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Purdue - Krannert (Global Focus-only) Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Rotterdam (Global Focus-only) Class of 2014 - 1st Year TBD Texas A&M - Mays (Global Focus-only) Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Texas A&M - Mays (Global Focus-only) Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD South Carolina - Moore Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD South Carolina - Moore Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Tampa - Sykes (Global Focus-only) Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Tampa - Sykes (Global Focus-only) Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Utah - Eccles Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD Utah - Eccles Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Willamette Class of 2014 - 2nd Year TBD Willamette Class of 2015 - 1st Year TBD

Resume books for other programs (EMBA, MS, PhD, part-time, etc) releasing soon:

School                                                         Class Year / Program                           Release Date Georgia State - Robinson MBA Graduates Available Now IMD (Global Focus-only) December 2013 Graduates Available Now Rice - Jones EMBA Program 8/1/2013 AGSM EMBA 2013-2014 8/12/2013 AGSM MBA Hong Kong 2013-2014 8/12/2013 AGSM MBT 2013-2014 8/12/2013 Rice - Jones  MBA-P Academic Year 2014-2015 8/19/2013 Pepperdine - Graziadio Fully Employed/Part Time MBA 9/11/2013 Pepperdine - Graziadio Fully Employed/Part Time MS 9/11/2013 Pepperdine - Graziadio Full Time MSAF & MSGB 9/11/2013 Pepperdine - Graziadio Fully Employed/Part Time BSM 9/11/2013 Brandeis International CareerFOCUS PhD Candidates 9/15/2013 CEIBS (Global Focus-only) February 2014 Graduates 9/16/2013 MIT - Sloan Master of Finance Class of 2014 9/16/2013 Wisconsin-Madison Evening & Executive Program 9/30/2013 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Alumni 10/2/2013 Forté Foundation Currently Enrolled MBA Women 10/11/2013 Forté Foundation College Women 10/11/2013 Brandeis International Alumni TBD Georgia State - Robinson Robinson Alumni Resume Database TBD HKUST Business School Part-Time Program - 2013-2014 TBD Hult International Class of 2014 - Masters TBD Michigan State - Broad Weekend MBA's TBD Maryland - Smith Part-Time and Executive MBA TBD SDA Bocconi December 2014 Graduates TBD SDA Bocconi December 2013 Graduates TBD TCU - Neeley Alumni TBD UCD - Smurfit (Global Focus-only)December 2012 GraduatesTBD

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Use a mobile app to improve employment reporting

It's that time of the year again. Your students have completed their resume workshops, attended recruiting events, finished interviews, and are now beginning to receive offers from employers. These offers and employment reports are a crucial part of your annual process. But now that the offers are rolling in, students tend to forget about career services. So how can career service offices stay in touch with students and get this critical information in a timely fashion? Go mobile! Each new class of MBA students is becoming increasingly millennial... Continue reading at mbafocus.com

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Employer branding through email marketing

Having issues keeping your brand in front of job-seeking candidates? Wish current MBA students understood your company's culture? It's an important issue and often one of the biggest pain points for recruiters at both lesser-known and well-established brands. Here are three tips to keep your employment brand in front of high-potential MBA candidates: 1. Create a message that describes your company culture and breaks down a typical day at the office. Include testimonials and links to videos of happy employees. 2. Clearly present what... Continue reading at mbafocus.com

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9 reasons to use Global Focus® for MBA recruiting

Global Focus is more than just a resume database. It is a complete recruitment management tool. Each year, employers use Global Focus to perform a multitude of recruitment tasks. And every year, the Global Focus tool goes through upgrades and feature enhancements that add to the recruiters arsenal. In 2012, Global Focus users:

printed 1,066,436 resumes

exported contact info for 264,273 candidates

analyzed 94,155 job-seeker profile details

performed 91,887 advanced searches

sent 60,307 emails to candidates

shared 8,702 notes about candidates  

posted 2,484 MultiPost jobs

conducted 12 live virtual interviews

conducted 4 pre-recorded virtual interviews   

Interested in getting in on the action in 2013? Contact us for more details or view the demo here: http://www.mbafocus.com/recruit

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Ten obstacles for MBA career service offices next year

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:

Expanding the employer network to startups, nonprofits, and other companies that don't traditionally recruit on campus.

Gathering employment data from students in a timely fashion for employment reporting.

Helping candidates compare offers among peers with relative data.

Managing multiple OCR...

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Top 10 biggest challenges for MBA recruiters next year

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:

Finding leadership talent that matches your company's culture.

Keeping your company's brand top-of-mind when candidates start seeking.

Finding up-to-date resumes and job-seeker profiles.

Making a personal connection...

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Our Exclusive Thanksgiving Day-tabase

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: ... To continue reading please visit our blog at mbafocus.com

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Honoring the ultimate leaders: Veterans with MBAs

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:

Finance: 42.8%

Marketing: 35.7%

Management: 35.4%

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Top 10 social networks to connect 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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