1. Various enterprises visit business schools to hold seminars during the term MBA degrees are taught and some enterprises contact Alumni (graduates), career centres or academics. Thus, MBA holders often attract enterprises' attention.

However, every enterprise hopes to recruit the best candidates who are the most suited to their firm. Therefore, simply having an MBA degree does not always lead to the immediate start of a career. It would be best to contact interested firms and apply. It may also help to contact vacancy handling companies.

2. Firms which do not require a large number of MBA holders put vacancy details on their web sites. Firms which require a large number of MBA holders are often limited to consulting firms, financial firms and some manufacturers, however as it is not possible for the firms to visit every business school, they may choose to contact a few chosen schools. In this case, candidates are required to contact the firms they are interested in. Other options may be to attend to Career Fairs and contact vacancy
handling companies which may hold information about various vacancies.

For those who have gained their MBA through temporary leave from work, or been sent by their firms, some may choose to change their career after returning to their own country. On the other hand, there have been cases where some have returned to their original firms and gained better positions. Especially for global firms, an MBA is an essential qualification to have. Thus, for those who are aiming for top management positions, an MBA is very valuable.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of people who start their own business, after returning from their study abroad and after gaining an MBA. Through interacting with students from all over the world, whilst studying the basics of business studies, these experiences allow them to gain numerous skills (including negotiation skills) and knowledge; some may eventually start their own business.

There are many firms which actively recruit MBA holders, however these firms can be categorised into four groups

Consulting expertise in the business or industry sectors, (mainly companies and public administration in rare cases), observe the situation objectively and recognise a phenomenon, analyse problems and help companies to develop.
(Consulting firms: Accenture, AD Little, AT Kearney/EDS, Bain & Company, BCG, Booz Allen, Deloitte Consulting, IBM Consulting, McKinsey & Co, Mercer Management Consulting, Roland Berger and more)

Industry refers to all the financial activity which may produce or provide products required in everyday life. These include transportation, commerce, and the service industry which contributes to the activities and there are also direct producers in agriculture, forestry and the fishery industries and mining and manufacturing.
(Examples: Eli Lilly, Ford, General Electric（GE）, General Motors（GM）, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, L`Oreal, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and more)

Financial firms facilitate the flow of finance from people with a capital surplus to those with a financial deficit. Enterprises such as banks, brokerage firms, and insurance companies are generally considered as financial institutions (finance industry). (Examples of financial firms: ABN Amro, American Express, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, GE Capital, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Nomura)

The term technology refers to and covers a wide range of meanings; tools, skills and knowledge. It is developing in various firms in terms of Information Technology (IT), Global Risk Technology, Process Technology and so on.
(Examples: AOL Time Warner, AT&T, Bertelsmann, British Telecom, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Philips, Siemens, Softbank, Transcosmos, Vodafone and so on).