The Relish Connect Virtual Conference (https://www.relishconnect.com/) took place online from September 16-18 and attracted thousands of candidates, 18 school sponsors, and nearly two dozen participating employers. Designed to help drive candidate-employer engagement amid the new virtual recruiting environment, the conference was a big success for all stakeholders: Attendance and Reach: Total Candidate Registrants: 4,707 Total Schools...Continue reading
How to Prepare for a Virtual Recruiting Event
Last month, we published an article on Virtual Recruiting: Candidate Best Practices and COVID-19: Virtual Recruiting. In light of recent rises of work-from-home policies and transitions to online education for those pursing degrees, we’ve received interest in an overview on – what constitutes a virtual recruiting event and how to prepare for them. This article...Continue reading
Virtual Recruiting: Candidate Best Practices
Virtual recruiting – or the process of finding, applying, and interviewing for jobs through online digital platforms – has been an increasingly valuable supplement to in-person, on-campus recruiting activities over the last several years. But with the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak causing shelter-in-place orders and mass event cancellations, virtual recruiting has quickly become the only feasible...
Should you go to the NBMBAA Conference?
Should you go to the NBMBAA Conference? While the National Black MBA Associate (NBMBAA) does offer a FAQs page, the answers provide little insight on whether you should actually attend the Career Fair that typically takes place the last week in September every year. So, here is some guidance. Who can attend the conference? While...Continue reading
Maximize Your Chances for a Management Consulting Career
By Stephanie Horn (Managing Consultant) and Matt Strickler (Senior Advisor), Consulting Career Academy at The MBA Exchange This fall, thousands of new MBA students will arrive on campus, excited to begin the next phase of their lives. Many individuals attend business school primarily to switch to a new career path. Furthermore, over 30% of incoming...Continue reading
Networking 101
<<Previous: Telling Your Story Networking is one of the most important parts of the MBA job search. In fact, it’s estimated that over 70% of jobs are found through networking, not through postings! While the degree of networking varies some by company and industry, effectively getting the word out about yourself and actively listening and...Continue reading
Telling Your Story
<<Previous: Thinking Like a Recruiter So far we’ve been talking about how to best set yourself up to target the right companies. You’ve researched what industries are a good fit for you based on some serious self-reflection and have a sense of what your top two or three roles to focus on will be. After...Continue reading
Five More People You Meet in Business School
To commemorate the start of 2017, we’re revisiting a post from last year: The Five People You Meet in Business School. That article was a light-hearted look at some common MBA personas that our users encounter every day at business school, and it seemed to resonate with enough readers that we decided to do it...Continue reading
Five More People You Meet in Business School
To commemorate the start of 2017, we’re revisiting a post from last year: The Five People You Meet in Business School. That article was a light-hearted look at some common MBA personas that our users encounter every day at business school, and it seemed to resonate with enough readers that we decided to do it...Continue reading
The Five People You Meet In Business School
The rigorous application process at top MBA programs produces some remarkable concentrations of brainpower and professional success at campuses around the world. As a result, the first few weeks of classes can be both humbling and enlightening, as many students find themselves surrounded for the first time by peers smarter and/or more accomplished than themselves....Continue reading