BlueSteps Business School Program Expands Global Footprint
BlueSteps extends partnerships with top business schools worldwide, offering students and alumni exposure to search professionals.

New York, August 9, 2012- BlueSteps, the exclusive career management service for senior executives provided by the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), is pleased to announce new partnerships with top business schools around the world as part of its ongoing Business School Program. New Business School partners include: Melbourne Business School (Australia), Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Australia), The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Queen's School of Business (Canada), The School of Management, Fudan University (China) and Fundação Getulio Vargas Business School of Administration (Brazil).

The BlueSteps Business School Program serves as a valuable resource to EMBA students and alumni of top business schools by helping them integrate executive search into their career management strategy. BlueSteps offers executives a suite of career management tools including a profile in the BlueSteps database, which is searched by AESC member firms who are seeking top talent for executive-level placements.

“Over 2,000 EMBA students and alumni from an impressive and expanding list of schools have already joined BlueSteps” said Glenda K. Brown, Managing Director of Strategy and Alliances. “Through these new partnerships, we will be able to offer more executives around the world a connection to AESC members and connect our AESC firms to this pool of top-tier talent. These partnerships are further strengthening the BlueSteps service with exceptional, global candidates who can now be considered for the top management roles our AESC member firms are recruiting for.”

Over the last 5 years BlueSteps has developed ongoing partnerships with 27 leading business schools worldwide including INSEAD, Columbia Business School, The Fuqua School of Business, IE Business School, The Wharton School, MIT Sloan School of Management, NYU Stern School of Business, London Business School and Kellogg School of Management.

About BlueSteps
BlueSteps is the executive career management service of the AESC, enabling executives to raise their visibility to over 8,000 AESC member executive search professionals around the world who use the BlueSteps database to locate top executive candidates.  BlueSteps also offers career management content and tools specifically for senior-level executives.  For more information, please visit www.bluesteps.com.

About The Association of Executive Search Consultants
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) is the worldwide professional association for the retained executive search and leadership consulting industry. The AESC promotes the highest professional standards in retained executive search and leadership consulting through its industry recognized Code of Ethics and Professional Practice Guidelines. The AESC also serves to broaden public understanding of the retained executive search and leadership consulting process and acts as an advocate for the interests of its member firms.