It's taking many of America’s most credentialed business-school graduates months to land and accept job offers.⁠

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/even-mbas-from-top-business-schools-are-struggling-to-get-hired-11f4a167 ⁠ With companies scrutinizing every white-collar hire, the job market for M.B.A.s has sputtered for more than a year. That is weakening a reliable catapult into executive-track jobs that can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars.⁠ ⁠ Though there were hiring rebounds at some of the most elite programs—including Harvard and Columbia universities—hiring from many top-tier business schools remains below prepandemic levels. At Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, for instance, 21% of job seekers were still looking for work three months after graduation last summer. About 15% of those at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business remained on the hunt. ⁠ ⁠ Those rates are similar to 2024 but sharply higher than 2019, when many employers couldn’t hire enough white-collar professionals. Just 5% of job-seeking M.B.A.s graduating from Duke then were still looking for work three months postgraduation. At Michigan that year, it was 4%.⁠