Financial Post - Managing great MBA expectations; Pressure to deliver

MBA recruiters are very conscious of the need to deliver the results their students expect. It's been a major theme of discussion at every international MBA Career Services conference Maria Sophocleous has attended -and she's been to all of them for the past decade…

"An MBA is not a ticket," says Marie-José Beaudin, executive director of career services at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. "Ultimately, corporations are not only looking for the brightest, they're also looking for well-rounded individuals who understand their value proposition and what it is they can bring to the corporation that's real and concrete.

"Also extremely relevant to corporations is emotional intelligence. You can be the best and the brightest, the most analytical, but if you don't have emotional intelligence, you are not going to be able to move along in your career."