The global job market for MBA graduates looks bright this year as employer confidence rebounds from the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new global survey of corporate recruiters.*
“As confidence in economic recovery arrives we are likely to see renewed demand for MBA graduates from globally oriented and local employers,” observe the authors of the Jobs and Salary Trends Report, an annual survey of more than 4,000 employers in 39 countries.
Increasingly, the report says, employers are going global in their search for MBA talent, with a preference for those with international work experience, language and soft skills.
On that note, the survey sends a strong message to business schools. For the first time in the 20-year history of the survey, global recruiters say that MBA graduates are meeting their expectations on leadership skills but not on communication, interpersonal relations and strategic thinking.
QS managing director Nunzio Quacquarelli, interviewed from London, says the recent infusion of leadership in business education curricula suggests that schools “are having an effect in creating more leadership-focused individuals.”
*Source theglobeandmail.com
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