Employers are increasingly using the MBA degree as a screening tool in hiring. For highly ranked consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company and the search engine giant Google, MBA graduating classes are optimal places to find new professional staff. This trend is now felt far outside the consulting realm as telecommunication, finance and manufacturing where companies are looking at an MBA degree and experience as necessary requirements or highly helpful determinants when examining management candidates.

However, employers across many industries are asking a common question related to the value addition of an MBA degree. Instead of focusing on only analytical methods and models, they are increasingly looking for MBAs with greater self-awareness and self-reflection in their workplace, that is, MBAs who seem to understand their impact on others and vice-versa. I would like to encourage students to pursue higher education. Regarding MBAs, the professional workforce is counting on MBA degree to take graduates further and employers tend to look at them favourably.

(Dr. Madhukar Angur; Chancellor, Alliance University)