TopMBA.com International MBA Recruitment and Salary Report 2007
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6.6 SKILLS

Wise MBAs will seek opportunities to develop skills that are important to recruiters. Figure 10 demonstrates how "soft skills" such as interpersonal, strategic thinking, and leadership are more important than finance abilities, academic success, and knowledge of IT.

According to recruiters around the world, business school graduates are still not meeting expectations in terms of their soft skills. MBAs have for many years met or exceeded expectations in terms of hard skills like, finance, accounting or academic ability. There has been a long-standing short fall in terms of leadership skills and interpersonal skills, which is apparent year after year, in this research. Choosing opportunities to demonstrate mastery of these skills - perhaps through club or project leadership, for example - will help MBAs to differentiate themselves in the recruitment process.

Figure 10: Key MBA Skills

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