Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the January 21, 2002 issue of
QuintZine.
Consulting magazine reports that McKinsey & Co.,
Boston Consulting Group and Cisco Systems are the
three most popular employers among MBA students
in the U.S., according to a survey by Universum
International, a Swedish company that specializes
in graduate recruitment and student relations.
McKinsey has ranked at the top of the list every
year since 1997. Management consulting was cited
as the most attractive industry among the 2,030
survey respondents, though most of the participants
don't plan to stick with their first employer for
more than three to five years.
A survey of 400 experienced MBA members of MBA
GlobalNet's 10,000 members provides clear evidence
that current mass-appeal job board solutions have
mostly not met expectations when these MBAs are
actively searching for a new job. Recruiting Trends
reports that while 84 percent of respondents said
that the Internet has made their active job searching
easier, some 36 percent of respondents indicate they
leverage four to six Web sites to gather career
intelligence and post their resumes online. An additional
31 percent use seven or more Web sites for those
purposes. "Experienced MBAs have a low tolerance
for job boards where they submit job applications
and never hear from the company," says MBA GlobalNet
CEO Rob Steir. "Rather than blame the company, they
tend to blame the job board." The survey is available,
for free download, at the
MBA GlobalNet Web site.
Business Week recently reported that some business
school MBA programs are taking students on field trips
to prospective employers' companies. The trend is designed
to combat the drop in recruiting of MBAs on campuses.
Cornell's Johnson School, for example, takes its students
on trips to Wall Street and Silicon Valley. If you're a current
or prospective MBA student whose school or future school
doesn't have such a program, you might want to push
for a commitment to field trips -- at least until recruiters
start returning to campuses.
Consulting magazine reports that McKinsey & Co.,
Boston Consulting Group and Cisco Systems are the
three most popular employers among MBA students
in the U.S., according to a survey by Universum
International, a Swedish company that specializes
in graduate recruitment and student relations.
McKinsey has ranked at the top of the list every
year since 1997. Management consulting was cited
as the most attractive industry among the 2,030
survey respondents, though most of the participants
don't plan to stick with their first employer for
more than three to five years.
