A look at the employee profiles of the leading global institutions will reveal an interesting trend as far as the recruitment process is concerned. It is apparent that many global companies have a preference for graduates from certain universities. This means that for such organizations if your certificate is not reading something like Wharton, Insead, Kellog, Havard, MIT or any other institution along such lines, then employment for you in such organizations will be a tall order.
The question that many people are asking is “isn’t a degree just a degree regardless of the school one went to?” The appropriate answer to this question is ‘yes’ and ‘no’. “Yes” because an MBA from an Ivy League university carries more weight in terms of student preparation, industrial exposure and experience. “No” because the basics of a certain MBA program are the same across all the institutions of higher learning. A Strategic Management program has some basics that are homogeneous across the board and as such a graduate from any reliable and recognized business school can do the job.
Employers should therefore approach the recruitment process with caution in order to tap talents extensively from the various schools across the globe. This is a great way of creating diversity because recruiting only from Ivy School universities at the expense of other universities might subject the organization to only “Ivy league ideas.”
The burden of the employee is however to be the best they can be regardless of their undergraduate or graduate schools. Not everyone can make it to an elite Ivy League university and so employers should be prudent enough not to deny graduates opportunities to grow just because they do not fit in the elite class of universities. At the end of the day it’s the results and productivity of the employee in question that matters.
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