Recruiting is dead - long live recruiting

The times when applicants applied for vacancies and employers could choose from a large number of qualified applications are finally over. Today, it is the other way around: Applicants are becoming more and more self-confident and companies actively compete for talents and high potentials. But what can businesses do in the face of these new developments to highlight their brands on the job market and ensure they always recruit the most suitable talent? HR experts Wolf Reiner Kriegler, Founder and Managing Director of Deutsche Employer Branding Akademie (DEBA), and Helga Pattart-Drexler, Head of Executive Education at the WU Executive Academy, have highlighted recruiting strategies that will be successful in the future.

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Happy Birthday MBA Energy Management - 10 years of unique excellence for the energy sector

10 years ago, the WU Executive Academy's MBA Energy Management, which is the only program of its kind in the world, was called into being by leading energy experts: This marked the beginning of an Austrian success story of global reach. Since then, the program has provided students from five continents with plenty of opportunities to interact with global players in the energy business, renowned researchers, and distinguished guest speakers. On the occasion of this special anniversary, Academic Director Prof. Jonas Puck explains not only what makes the MBA Energy Management unlike any other worldwide program but also why it offers students a lot of benefits when it comes to the overall MBA experience.

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Forbes: Timea Reicher #2 most powerful woman in Slovakia

Timea Reicher, Retail Director at Slovnaft, was recently voted Slovakia's second most influential female manager by Forbes business magazine. We'd like to congratulate her for this well-deserved recognition! After holding various positions within the company, Timea was the first woman to join to the Slovnaft Management Board in 2013. What the top manager would do differently today despite her extraordinary success and why she could no longer live without Google Translate, is shared in this issue of our Career Stories.

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Why Federer, Nadal and Thiem have everything a leader needs

What makes the three exceptional tennis players Federer, Nadal and Thiem so special? They owe their unbelievable success to their extraordinary ability to concentrate and to move on after having setbacks and stressful situations, as well as their passion for endurance, precision and flexibility. The new Special Workshop Game-Set-Grow of the WU Executive Academy shows that exactly the same skills are important in everyday professional life. In individual tennis lessons, participants work together with tennis and management professionals to further develop skills that will help them just as much in the office as on the court.

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EUR 5,000: 20 Years Anniversary Early Bird for the Global Executive MBA

When the Global Executive MBA was first launched on March 27, 2000, it was one of the first Executive MBA programs in Austria and the MBA degree was a rarity even across borders. Today, almost 20 years later, the WU Executive Academy's Global Executive MBA is triple accredited (AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS) and one of the top 50 Executive MBA programs in the world. On the occasion of the MBA’s upcoming birthday, we are awarding a 20 Years Anniversary Early Bird of EUR 5,000. Use this unique opportunity and apply now!

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Professional MBA more flexible: 4 day vs. 8 day track in the Business Core

In order to better meet the individual needs of our Professional MBA participants when it comes to good time management, we now offer the Business Core in 2 tracks: the familiar 4-day version and the new 8-day track. For all those who are not sure yet, which option to choose, we asked Alexander Damev, Senior Learning & Education Consultant at the WU Executive Academy, to present the differences between the two options and give tips on who is best suited for which track.

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With the Executive MBA to a multimillion dollar freighting company

"The MBA was crucial to me in terms of my ability to think and act entrepreneurially," says Catalin Putineanu, CEO of IB Cargo. The Executive MBA Bucharest alumnus is among those who have successfully realized their entrepreneurial plans. After completing his MBA in 2008, Catalin founded his own freight company. At the end of the company's first year its workforce had doubled. Ten years later, IB Cargo now employs 80 people and generates an annual turnover of over EUR 25 million. Read Catalin’s full career story on businessbecause.

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The periodic table of leadership

We humans are constantly in search of structure and order because this helps us understand complex relationships better. The same logic applies when it comes to understanding the complex issue of leadership from a holistic perspective. It is therefore helpful to draw on existing structural systems from another discipline, such as the natural sciences. The chemical elements of the periodic table for example are wonderfully suitable for making analogies to leadership and getting a better orientation. Helga Pattart-Drexler, Head of Executive Education at the WU Executive Academy, took a closer look at the individual groups of leadership elements. Here, she explains why there are also 4 states of aggregation in the periodic table of leadership and what good leadership actually means.

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Actively shaping the future with strategic foresight

No one knows what the future holds. However, what if we learn how to manage uncertainty and how to prepare for as many scenarios as possible? Strategic foresight is a concept that enables executives to shape the future without being at the mercy of its vagaries. The WU Executive Academy's new short program “Strategic Foresight - New Approaches for Creating Strategy” is designed to provide executives and managers with innovative tools and methods for identifying developments early on, dealing better with unforeseeable challenges and creating good strategies in the face of constantly changing realities.

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Confirmation bias and the desire to be right

The phenomenon known in psychology as "confirmation error" means that we tend to see what confirms our presuppositions, views and opinions. “Confirmation bias is also frequently encountered in finance. For instance, when you hold on to stocks that bring bad returns because you are reluctant to admit that the decision to buy it was wrong,” says Prof. Manfred Frühwirth, Academic Director of the Professional MBA Finance. How you can escape the confirmation error is explained in the 10th part of our GEWINN/WU Executive Academy series "The biggest investor mistakes".

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