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This year's recruiting season may feel longer, more competitive, and more painful for soon-to-be-minted MBAs than any in recent memory. Amid pervasive market uncertainty, admissions officers and students at business schools around the country say the recruiting climate has shifted noticeably, particularly in the financial sector. "Uncertainty is the buzzword," says Deanna M. Fuehne, Director of the Career Management Center at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management. "Consulting firms and banks are worried that clients may pull projects and deals. Company recruiters are worried about staff reductions. So it's become a game...
...this legal differential mirrors a class differential. Most drug dealers are not recent economics graduates, and most freshly-minted MBAs do not consider a career in dealing alongside their offers from McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. They are made up mostly of desperately poor people—people for whom the inflated demand of pot represents a rare economic opportunity in a world where jobs are scarce and education scarcer...
Kafie, on the other hand, says his youth is an advantage. Companies see him as “malleable,” in contrast to older MBAs who may have already been ingrained with the culture of their previous job, he says...
...economy stays strong, he adds, companies such as Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, or Goldman Sachs will likely not have any qualms about hiring Early Career MBAs...
...article said that its rankings were based on surveys completed by recruiters that seek employees at each of the listed business schools and explained that “recruiters complain that they often find graduates of some of the most prestigious institutions more arrogant and less collegial than the MBAs they meet at other schools.” The Princeton Review rating, on the other hand, puts students in the driver’s seat, asking them to reflect on recruiters and other aspects of the business school experience. According to Adrinda L. Kelly, senior editor...