Future Bodes Well for MBA Hiring

Article by: Alison Damast on March 10, 2011

MBAs should be heartened by the findings of a new report, which predicts that hiring in the finance and consulting sector should return to pre-recession levels beginning in 2012. The finance sector hired 22 percent more MBAs in 2010 and expects to increase hiring by 11 percent this year, while the consulting industry increased hiring by 19 percent last year, and plans to bump hiring up 37 percent this year, according to data from the QS TopMBA Jobs and Salary Trends report. The report was published by the QS World MBA Tour, a London-based company that organizes information and recruitment fairs for business school applicants. The organization surveyed over 5,000 companies in 36 countries for the report, released this week...