For the 13th consecutive time, the EFMD Global Fairs by Highered brought together students from member schools worldwide with recruiters and senior leaders from some of the world’s most in-demand employers. This spring also marked a first: the fair moved onto the CareerOS platform, giving students a seamless experience from session registration to company discovery…

Artificial intelligence is changing how work gets done, but employers around the world are increasingly clear about what they expect from future business talent: technical capability alone is not enough. GMAC’s latest annual survey of 621 corporate recruiters across 39 countries—most representing Global Fortune 500 companies—offers an important signal for graduate management education. While technology,…

GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) has announced a collaboration with Ascent Funding, a leading provider of private student loan products and student support services, facilitated through its bank partners. Together, GMAC and Ascent aim to help Master of Business Administration (MBA) and other business master’s program students better plan for, pay for, and succeed in…

Carla Silva is the Career Services Director at Porto Business School in Portugal, which recently released its International MBA Employment Report 2025. We learn more from Carla about the new employment trends she is seeing, how AI is impacting recruitment and career services, and what the new report reveals about MBA graduate employment today. 1.…

In today’s contemporary educational landscape, characterised by extensive digital learning platforms, skill-based programmes, industry-collaborated certifications, and hands-on training, learning has been completely transformed. Yet, unemployment remains a persistent challenge, posing a serious concern. This raises an important question: if nowadays students are more highly qualified than ever, why are they still not job-ready? While most…

We hear the same chorus everywhere. In labour markets transformed by AI, geopolitical volatility, and climate change, the most valuable skills are adaptability, critical thinking, ethical judgment, learning agility, and resilience. Everyone broadly agrees, at least theoretically, that knowledge transmission is no longer the core purpose of higher education, that a degree alone is insufficient, and…