The charts show survey results concerning why MBA graduates did their degree and employers’ reasons for hiring them

The pie charts below illustrate the reasons why graduates decided to do

MBA

and the criteria by which

employers

choose employees.

Overall

, it is obvious that one of the main reasons for most of the students deciding to do the

MBA

was better job opportunities.

However

,

it is clear that

several qualities taken together are the reasons why

employers

choose certain candidates.

To begin

with, considerably more than half of the students 65% chose to do the

MBA

for better career opportunities.

In contrast

, only 8 per cent did it for helping other people. Another important reason why students studied for

MBA

was to improve their performance at work, 15% and for personal development ,12%.

However

,

employers

,

on the other hand

, seem to value many personal skills taken together. In fact,qualifications are valued the least ,only 10% of

employers

take qualification into consideration ,

while

previous experiences and personalities are valued the most at 25 % Another valued skill for job candidates to have is previous experience with connections at 20% and

also

a personal appearance at 20%.