Around 20 companies visited the campus of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) so far in the final campus recruitment process which kicked off on January 15 this year. The management institute has so far been able to secure placements for 80-90 students of its current batch of Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in management, consisting of 120 students.
“There are companies which are keeping their fingers crossed over the impending third quarter results of 2008-09. These companies are expected to visit the XIMB campus later this month as the process of campus recruitment is set to continue till the end of January,” said a placement officer at XIMB.
As expected, offers from the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector have gone down in this year’s placements. The BFSI sector has been traditionally the biggest recruiter at the XIMB campus and nearly one-third of the students are absorbed in this sector every year. “Around 14 companies visited our campus and 29 students have already been recruited in this year’s placements. However, the placement process has been slow this year as nearly 65-70 per cent of our regular MBA students were placed by the end of January last year,” said Prabir Pal, director, Regional College of Management.
LK Vaswani, director, KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar, said around 20 companies have visited our campus till now in this year’s placements but the intake by these companies has been less this year compared to the previous year. The campus placement for KIIT School of Rural Management is scheduled to begin on February 2 this year.
The final campus placement programme has also started at the Asian School of Business Management (ASBM). Fifteen companies have visited the B-school campus so far for recruiting students of the conventional MBA programme. “All the students of ASBM’s logistics and supply chain management programme have already been recruited by Gati Ltd. Moreover, the 60 students of our other sector specific management programme are set to be absorbed in Pantaloon Retail with whom we have a tie-up”, said Biswajeet Pattanayak, director, ASBM.
The Institute of Management and Information Science (IMIS) has so far witnessed the participation of 15 companies in its final campus placements this year. The companies which have visited the IMIS campus this year include SBI, ICICI Prudential, Axis bank, HDFC bank etc.