CBM Benefits to Employers, Employees, and Business Schools
 

Benefits to Employers:

1. Establishes objective hiring criteria (MBA or CBM/MBA plus CBM)
2. Facilitates career counseling and succession planning
3. Supports management training and development programs/corporate universities
4. Utilizes tuition reimbursement programs for taking the CBM Exams
5. Supports outplacement services in terms of retooling the departing employees with new marketable skills
6. Results in a consistent, standardized, cost-effective, and time-efficient management development program that can be institutionalized

Benefits to Employees:

1. Achieves proficiency in business management via a four-part standardized and rigorous exam, with CBM as the “badge” of proficiency in business management profession
2. Improves both hard skills and soft skills that employers require most
3. Facilitates better career path and mobility due to practical management development program
4. Receives peer recognition through CBM’s rigor in terms of depth and breadth of subject matter
5. Fits well with busy schedules due to comprehensive, self-paced, and self-study materials, flexible testing schedules, and worldwide testing locations
6. Helps business specialists become business generalists. In today’s flat organizational structures, employers prize generalists for their cross-functional knowledge.

Benefits to Business Schools:

1. Measures MBA students’ learning outcomes with the CBM Exams
2. Blends the CBM testing into MBA curriculum as the post-MBA certifying exam
3. Teaches both hard skills and soft skills that employers require most
4. Enhances the value of non-traditional and specialty MBA programs (e.g., engineering, aviation, and biotechnology) by assuring that traditional MBA foundation is accomplished through the CBM Exams
5. Integrates the CBM Exam review class as a captstone course

 

 

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