Another Saturday sorting through the MBA crowd for my Russian friend. They are actually very responsive, as one would expect from people who are motivated enough to graduate from one of the best European business schools. They are interested in many aspects of the business, but they are careful to evaluate the opportunities in terms of their investment in both time and money.
I enjoy working with them, as they use their drive and intelligence to analyse the situation, and always add to my knowledge and insight into the situation that is evolving. The outcome of this situation is that the company has some seed funding from Russia and from Germany; a new finance director from the UK and a marketing director from France.
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.
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