Ryan Pratt's Blog – November 2009 Archive (4)

Social Networks Impact on Job-Searches and Recruiting

Recently a few reports have surfaced with some interesting facts on social networks. These stats depict the importance of social media and how it will and is changing the world of job-hunting and recruiting:

* Average ages of social media users Twitter 31, Facebook 33, LinkedIn 39, MySpace 26

* 226 million job related searches on Google EACH MONTH

* 2/3 of the global internet population use social networks today (just recently eclipsed email as the top activity… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on November 30, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

MBA Recruiter Update on Resume Book Release Dates

Here are the available MBA resume books for each graduating class (get started by clicking on the MBA programs below or by copying this link into your browser - https://www.mbafocus.com/orders/):

Class of 2009 Resume Books:

Many of our partner schools have added their graduates from last year's class directly into the experienced-recruiting alumni resume… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on November 17, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments

Did You Know? MBAs Looking for International Internships

DID YOU KNOW thousands of first-year MBA students are looking for summer internships around the globe? Below is the number of available summer interns and their geographic preference:

* 4,102 in NYC

* 2,474 in Nebraska

* 2,141 in London

* 1,627 in Paris

* 1,490 in Alberta

* 601 in Kazakhstan

* 534 in Kuwait

Plus thousands of other MBAs looking for summer work in hundreds of other places around the world.

You can find these class of… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on November 11, 2009 at 9:29am — No Comments

Hire MBA Interns from Harvard, Chicago, New York, Kellogg & more

More companies have made the strategic decision to hire MBA students through summer internships the past several years. This year is no exception. MBA Focus has been helping these companies identify and attract high-potential interns from the world's top-ranked MBA programs by using resume books powered by MBA Focus.

What are your MBA recruiting plans? Do they include summer interns? If so,… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on November 4, 2009 at 8:47am — No Comments