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Online MBA ForumMonday, June 05, 2006Recruitment Aid
I asked an executive recruitment agency if they considered it a necessity for senior management to have an MBA. The recruitment specialist said that increasingly it was considered definitely desireable if not exactly a necessity to have gained your MBA in order to make the transition from middle management into senior management.
He said that although the knowledge gained in an MBA was seen as usually directly applicable to the job that senior management did, there is also a factor about the kind of people who study an MBA. They tend to be more forward looking, and are willing to put real time and effort into their careers, and therefore their jobs. Interviews give companies a very short time to assess people, and they need all the clues they can get in order to be able to work out if they will fit in. MBAs are another clue to the kind of person they are considering. # posted by Mary @ 8:10 PM
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Aha! Credentialism! You have to have the piece of paper in order to get the top job!
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No, of course, that’s not quite right. There’s actually quite a lot of this around. Getting a college degree or other qualification like an MBA isn’t just about what you learn while you actually study for it. It’s also about showing that you are the sort of person willing to study something complex for years at a time. That’s a sign of a certain type of character which is something that employers are looking for. Workswith an MBA even better than it does with the other qualifications: in business at least. # posted by failingeconomist : 9:18 AM
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