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MBA Focus has become the best source of data and insight in the industry—as well as an advocate for the MBA degree.

Here are a few of the most recent news clippings where MBA Focus was mentioned, quoted, or sourced:

Ryan Pratt from MBA Focus Named as Finalist in 2013 American Business Awards

May 11, 2013

Ryan Pratt, Marketing Director at MBA Focus, was named a Finalist today in the Marketer of the Year category in The 2013 American Business Awards, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie® Award winner in the program.
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SaaS Capital Provides Growth Line of Credit to MBA Focus

December 11, 2012

SaaS Capital, the pioneer provider of debt financing for SaaS businesses, today announced that it has provided a $1.5 million line of credit to MBA Focus®.
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Recruiters roll out the red carpet for MBA students

November 19, 2012

The Financial Times talks to recruiters who've turned to MBA Focus to move beyond their core business schools and improve their MBA recruitment efficiency.
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Sixel: Grads Need Skills, Poise and Boots

August 8, 2012

Technical skills are important when energy companies are hiring new MBA graduates. But so are analytical skills, presentation abilities and a passion for the energy industry, a panel of recruiters recently gathered in Houston says.
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Prestigious MBA Network Extends Its Global Reach

May 30, 2012

MBA Focus expands partnerships with four top-ranked international business schools, including: HEC (Paris), IESE (Barcelona), IE (Madrid), and Hult International Business School (Dubai, Shanghai, London, San Francisco, and Boston). These new school partners, and the 70 other top-ranked graduate business schools, make MBA Focus the most comprehensive global recruiting network available.
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New Webinar Explains How to Integrate Video Interviews into the Hiring Process

May 11, 2012

MBA Focus and InterviewStream team up for May 15 event, which introduces the five questions every employer should ask about video interviewing.
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Tools of the Trade: Matching MBAs With the Market

November/December, 2011

Global Focus helps employers and career advisors match job seekers with the right job openings. 
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Get Creative to Recruit Grad Gold

September 30, 2011

Many recent business school graduates are still hunting for jobs, but talent managers must up the ante with recruiting efforts to find and attract candidates who will be a good fit. 
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Harvard Business School’s Alumni Career and Professional Development Office Uses MBA Focus Technology for Recruiting

September 8, 2011

The Alumni Career and Professional Development Office (ACPD) of Harvard Business School (HBS) has launched the next generation job bank, providing easier and better access to job postings, and offering alumni the ability to manage all of their career activities from a centralized dashboard. 
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MBA Focus and InterviewStream Partnership Makes Virtual Recruiting at Nation’s Top B-Schools a Click Away

June 17, 2011

MBA Focus, the leader in MBA recruiting management systems and InterviewStream, the premier provider of video interviewing solutions, announced their technology partnership today. MBA Focus will add InterviewStream’s real-time video interviewing technology to its recruiting management system. InterviewStream looks at the partnership as a way to expand its reach into the MBA talent network. 
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Executive Recruiting Leader MBA Focus Appoints Jack Gainer as Chief Executive Officer

September 8, 2010

MBA Focus, the leader in top MBA talent recruiting software, has announced the appointment of Jack Gainer as chief executive officer. 
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MBA/MS Career Job Fair - Panama City, Panama

June 18, 2010

Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida (open to MBA/MS students/Alumni at FIU in Miami with work authorization in the Americas and MBA/MS students/alumni in FIU graduate programs in San Domingo, Jamaica and Panama) and INCAE, Latin America, have come together to offer companies in the Americas a perfect opportunity to recruit talented professionals with MBAs and other Business Masters degrees. The “2010 FIU/INCAE Job Fair” will be held on Friday, June 18, 2010, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Panama City, Panama. For more information, click here: 
MBA/MS Career Job Fair

Harvard Business School Moves to GTS Technology

April 13, 2010

MBA Focus now hosts and manages all Harvard Business School recruiting functionality through its Global Talent Systems (GTS) technology platform. GTS enables the Career and Professional Development Office of Harvard Business School to place its MBA students in front of an elite network of employers. 
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FT.com - Ask the experts: Jobs clinic

March 6, 2009

Not since 2002 have students graduating from an MBA programme seen such jobs uncertainty. Many will have to completely rethink their career plans, abandoning plans to work on Wall Street or in the City of London and opting instead for jobs in manufacturing companies or even in not-for-profit organisations. Many will find their plans to work in an overseas country foiled by the credit crunch. 
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MBA Focus™ Launches First-of-its-Kind Solution for Posting Jobs to an Exclusive Network of Top-Ranked MBA Schools

December 4, 2008

The new MultiPost Job Network enables employers to simultaneously broadcast open positions to MBA students and alumni of more than 50 top-ranked schools in the U.S., Europe and Asia - using one single job posting form. 
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AfterCollege and MBA Focus Enter Into Strategic Marketing and Cross-Posting Agreement

November 18, 2008

AfterCollege, Inc., the largest career network for college students and alumni, and MBA Focus, LLC, the leading provider of advanced recruitment technology to top-ranked graduate business schools, have partnered to provide employers with unparalleled access to MBA candidates and undergraduate business students... 
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Wall Street Journal article "Back to School -- For Career Advice"

July 4, 2008

Kellogg is one of 22 business schools -- up from eight a year ago -- that encourage their alumni to contribute résumés to a pool posted at MBA Focus, an online clearinghouse that recruiters can peruse. 
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Online program targets matching MBA grads with likely employers

February 15, 2008

More companies are hiring graduates who hold Master of Business Administration degrees, even into nontraditional positions. Company recruiters say that MBA graduates are sought after because they generally have a singular, focused goal to succeed in business.
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“Now we are a bigger fish in a smaller pond.”

Rex Trewin , Global University (MBA) Recruiting Manager, Wipro Technologies

November 19, 2012 Financial Times

 

 

“The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, uses MBA Focus the same way employers do—to identify students by job preference, access students’ contact information, and plan appointments. We use it to get an idea of what our current MBA class looks like as a whole.”

Lisa Feldman, Director of Recruiting, Haas School of Business

November/December 2011 BizEd Magazine