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It's taking many of America’s most credentialed business-school graduates months to land and accept job offers.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/caree...-schools-are-struggling-to-get-hired-11f4a167
With companies scrutinizing every white-collar hire, the job market for M.B.A.s has sputtered for more than a year. That is weakening a reliable catapult into executive-track jobs that can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Though there were hiring rebounds at some of the most elite programs—including Harvard and Columbia universities—hiring from many top-tier business schools remains below prepandemic levels. At Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, for instance, 21% of job seekers were still looking for work three months after graduation last summer. About 15% of those at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business remained on the hunt.
Those rates are similar to 2024 but sharply higher than 2019, when many employers couldn’t hire enough white-collar professionals. Just 5% of job-seeking M.B.A.s graduating from Duke then were still looking for work three months postgraduation. At Michigan that year, it was 4%.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/caree...-schools-are-struggling-to-get-hired-11f4a167
With companies scrutinizing every white-collar hire, the job market for M.B.A.s has sputtered for more than a year. That is weakening a reliable catapult into executive-track jobs that can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Though there were hiring rebounds at some of the most elite programs—including Harvard and Columbia universities—hiring from many top-tier business schools remains below prepandemic levels. At Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, for instance, 21% of job seekers were still looking for work three months after graduation last summer. About 15% of those at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business remained on the hunt.
Those rates are similar to 2024 but sharply higher than 2019, when many employers couldn’t hire enough white-collar professionals. Just 5% of job-seeking M.B.A.s graduating from Duke then were still looking for work three months postgraduation. At Michigan that year, it was 4%.