MBA Employment Report 2007
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Celebrating Our Success

We are delighted to report that 2007 has proved to be another great year for our hugely talented MBA classes with 97% of our graduating class receiving an offer of employment within three months of graduation and 99% of our first year students securing a summer internship or project.

Our students have continued to accept top positions across the industry, finance and consulting sectors all around the world. Located in the world’s finance capital, it is unsurprising that financial roles continue to be a popular choice among London Business School students. In particular, the efforts of our business development team to diversify our finance recruitment partners have paid dividends and their success is reflected in the increased number of students entering the finance sector upon graduation – up from 42% to 46%. Consulting and industry continue to attract more than 50% of our graduates and here too we see a diversity of global recruiting partners drawing from London Business School talent.

The appeal of our students to top recruiters across the board is reflected by a steady salary increase across all sectors in 2007 with the greatest increase in Global Industry, particularly in FMCG, Energy and Media roles. Our 2007 class is also the most entrepreneurial in recent years with 5% opting to start their own venture upon graduation.

Not to be outdone, our first years have proved that they are highly sought after by recruiters. The number of first years undertaking more than one internship this summer almost doubled, rising from 6% in 2006 to 11% in 2007, proving that recruiters continue to value the skills, leadership and global outlook of our students.

Connecting Great Talent to Great Opportunities

This year, Career Services have taken great strides in streamlining the processes we use to connect our global talent to the best opportunities available. June 2007 saw the successful launch of Career Central – our world-class online recruitment system. Neither students nor recruiters wasted any time familiarising themselves with this one-stop service for CV creation and search, job postings, and presentation and interview scheduling.

We continue to build ongoing relationships with top corporate recruiters around the globe and, in addition to welcoming a record number of recruiters to campus, our teams are on the road meeting organisations in Hong Kong, New York, California and continental Europe, to name just a few of our recent visits in 2007. Student treks and competitions to Dubai, Madrid, Paris and India amongst others continue to showcase the best and brightest of London Business School talent.

Our lifelong connection with our alumni has also gone from strength to strength with the success of our Alumni Job Board and CV Database. Both recruiters and alumni are enjoying the benefits of this service which enables recruiters to connect with our community of over 27,000 alumni.

And, with so much going on, we recently launched our quarterly recruiter newsletter to ensure that our recruiting partners are always kept up-to-date with the latest news from around the London Business School community.

Looking Forward

Overall, 2007 was another bumper year for recruitment and the appointment of a new Director and several new staff members has brought additional expertise to an already vital and committed Career Services team.

Having just welcomed our first Dubai-EMBA class to our community, we are already looking forward to building upon our successes in 2008. We will kick off with a packed week of Corporate Partner presentations in the second week of January, followed by our second annual “Industry Month” in February, a full schedule of presentations, careers fairs and interviews through February and March, and our annual Recruiters Forum at the end of the summer term.

We hope that this report is helpful in setting out the choices of our graduating and first year MBA students. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me or a member of the Career Services team who will be happy to help.

Best wishes,
Diane Morgan, Director, Career Services

Download MBA Employment Report 2007, London Business School

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Contents
The London Business School Advantage 4
How to Recruit from London Business School 5
MBA Recruiters 6
MBA 2007/8 Class Profiles 8
MBA 2007 Employment Profile 10
MBA 2007 Career Decisions 11
MBA 2007 Salary Information 13
MBA 2008 Summer Employment Profile 17

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The London Business School advantage

London Business School graduates provide the outstanding global business capabilities, diversity, international outlook and professional experience that make a real difference to business. If you are looking to recruit truly world-class business talent, there are many ways to get to know our students and to raise awareness of your company on campus. Whatever your requirements, Career Services will work in partnership with you to help you access the talent you need.

We provide our students with the global business capabilities required for success. Our programmes are consistently ranked among the top ten in the world, and we are committed to our vision to be the pre-eminent global business school.

London Business School’s 1,400 degree students and 5,000-plus executive education participants come from 130 countries. Our 89 world-renowned faculty members come from more than 30 countries and produce world-impacting research including the annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and Global Investment Returns Yearbook.

We have more than 40 Corporate Partners and our students are employed by over 200 different companies each year.

Our 27,000 alumni lead big organisations, run governments, transform communities and start new businesses in over 120 countries.

Diversity

London Business School awards more than 800 degrees each year. Our students leave campus with sharp decision making and problem-solving skills, a strategic mindset and a global view of leadership.

We offer the widest range of rigorous degree programmes of any top business school. Our six programmes suit people at all stages of their professional development:

• MBA – Develops multi-skilled professionals into tomorrow’s leading global players. The 15-21 month programme is rigorous and flexible. It provides students with the knowledge, skills and attributes for success in global business

• Executive MBA (EMBA) – A dynamic, 20-month programme for fully employed, mid-career managers
and professionals. EMBA participants make a real and immediate impact on their organisations

• EMBA-Global – Participants receive MBAs from both London Business School and Columbia Business School in New York. Designed for fast-track executives able to demonstrate sustained management experience with an international focus

• Dubai-London EMBA – This world class programme transforms ambitious and committed mid-career managers into senior and influential business men and women. The programme provides a breadth of knowledge across every discipline of business and management and the skills to influence strategy at all levels in an organisation

• Sloan Fellowship MSc – A full-time, 10-month masters in management emphasising leadership and self-development. Designed for successful executives, professionals and entrepreneurs with significant experience of decision making at strategic levels

• Masters in Finance (MiF) – This unique, specialist masters degree in finance is widely regarded as the pre-eminent postgraduate qualification for finance professionals. Meets on a full-time and part-time basis

• PhD Programme – Primes exceptional scholars for faculty positions in leading business schools, universities and research institutions.

London Business School MBA programme

The London Business School MBA Programme develops managers who demonstrate truly global business capabilities. They have strong skills in analysis and are given a core grounding in finance, strategy, marketing, technology, accounting, entrepreneurship, economics and organisational behaviour. By the time they graduate, all our MBA students have had to demonstrate key project management and implementation skills, and have an in-depth knowledge of a large number of industries.

They are grounded by a strong sense of business ethics, and corporate and social responsibility, and they have the ability to thrive anywhere in the world working within cross-cultural teams. Skilled presenters and communicators, they also have the flexibility to deal with pressing deadlines, and to flourish in today’s fast-paced, fast-changing business environment.

Above all, our MBA students emerge from London Business School with the ability to lead and implement change. The programme maximises student potential through a rigorous and challenging curriculum, which includes the Global Leadership Development Programme, a strong emphasis on project work, access to a hugely varied elective portfolio, a Career and Professional Skills Development Programme of some 75+ courses, a languages programme, and the opportunity to go on International Exchange with one of 30 top schools worldwide.

In addition, students follow their own passions through their involvement in student clubs, initiating and taking part in a huge number of professional, social and sporting events.

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