Here Are the Skills Recruiters Want

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What skills do companies need but say they can't find? In the latest ranking of business programs, Bloomberg asked 1,251 job recruiters at 547 companies what skills they're hiring for and how well MBA graduates were meeting their needs. Finance recruiters named communication and strategic thinking skills as most important and hardest to find, and they gave the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School top ratings for both skills. See what skills are wanted (and not wanted) in

What skills do companies need but say they can't find? In the latest ranking of business programs, Bloomberg asked 1,251 job recruiters at 547 companies what skills they're hiring for and how well MBA graduates were meeting their needs. Finance recruiters named communication and strategic thinking skills as most important and hardest to find, and they gave the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School top ratings for both skills. See what skills are wanted (and not wanted) in 

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