• Talent is becoming increasingly mobile. It is now more commonplace for people to change both industry sectors and country of location a number of times during a career.
• Over three quarters of those surveyed say that they are looking to change either industries or firms following graduation.
• Just under 20% said that they are intending to return to the firm that they worked for prior to their MBA - indeed many of those may have been students who secured a sponsorship from those firms to undertake that MBA in the first place.
• With over 50% of our talent pool saying that they are looking to change industry sector upon completion of their MBA, attitudes to industry sectors matter greatly. Here, a very different picture emerges for different industry sectors. The four industries with the most attractive reputations are banking and finance, information technology, automotive and energy utilities.
• Students at Asian business schools are much more attracted by government-owned companies than in any other region.
• A great deal has been made of the rise of the BRIC economies and other emerging markets, such as the N11. In this battle for preference, it is clear that China, Singapore and Brazil are the winners amongst these emerging markets.

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