What turned out to be a strong job market for business school and management degree graduates in 2014, is projected to continue into 2015, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council‘s (GMAC) recent Year-End Poll of Employers.
This year’s hiring outlook holds steady for 2015 graduates as nine in ten employers planning to hire business school graduates expect to maintain or increase the number of job openings for these hires compared with 2014. The poll also found that 96% of employers worldwide concur that graduate business school hires create value for their companies.
Rebecca Estrada Worthington, GMAC’s Survey Research Manager, shared, “The solid job prospects for b-school talent seen over the past several years and again reflected in this poll, give prospective students good reason to consider pursuing these degrees as part of a strategy to drive their career goal. Our data show that even in the depths of the recession, business and management degrees can provide a measure of job protection and opportunity. Today, in a recovering global economy, management degrees can be a powerful driver of confidence and provide fuel for an individual’s career growth.”
The greatest hiring demand for b-school talent remains recent MBA graduates, while the largest increase in hiring demand is projected to be for Master in Management talent, as reflected in the 11%-point increase in firms who hired this category of graduates in 2014.
Paul Arkwright
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