 "IIM-L signals 'acche din' with 100% placements")
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L), has achieved 100 per cent placement for its graduating batch of 2015.
The “healthy economic environment” helped IIM-L maintain its status as a top recruiting destination and attain 100 per cent placements for its largest graduating batch, the institute said in a press communiqué.
A total of 463 job offers were made by 144 recruiters, including 43 new recruiters, for the batch of 453 students. The offers included 93 pre-placement offers (PPO), 163 lateral offers from the higher entry placement process (HEPP) and 207 offers from the final placements. The number of lateral offers was the highest ever and increased by 23 per cent over the previous year.
The top segments based on roles offered were sales and marketing (25 per cent), finance (22 per cent), consulting (21 per cent), e-commerce (15 per cent), systems/IT (10 per cent) and general management (7 per cent).
“Given the encouraging economic situation, IIM-L attracted diverse roles in the finance domain. The rest of the offers came from domains such as market research, analytics, business development, social media marketing and human resource, among others,” IIM-L said.
Some top firms from the FMCG, consumer goods, telecom sector and digital media were Airtel, Coke, GSK Consumer, HT Media, HUL, ITC, Kraft-Cadbury, P&G, Pepsi, Star TV and Vodafone.
In addition to traditional sales and marketing roles, they offered roles in supply-chain management, information technology, finance, human resource, and analytics, with some of them being exclusive roles for IIM-L. The world’s top FMCG firms, such as P&G, HUL and Kraft-Cadbury, were also the top three recruiters from this sector.
Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector was represented by firms such as Avendus Capital, BAML, Barclays, Citibank, CRISIL, Development Bank of Singapore, Edelweiss, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, HSBC, ICICI bank, IndusInd Bank, Nomura, Standard Chartered and Yes Bank.
Some of the major roles were offered in front end investment banking, global markets, corporate and wholesale banking, market research, trading and operations.
The consulting domain had an active participation from Accenture Management Consulting, A T Kearney, BCG, Deloitte, E&Y, KPMG, McKinsey and PwC. The general management domain saw participation from companies such as Aditya Birla Group (ABG), JSPL, Mahindra and Mahindra, Reliance Industries and TAS.
Tech recruiters included Amazon, Appsdaily, Cognizant, Commonfloor, eBay, Flipkart, Google, HCL, Infosys,Magicbricks, MAQ Software, Mindtree, PayTm, Shopclues, Snapdeal, Uber and Wipro.
Besides, IIM-L had roped in 43 first time headhunters, with over 60 per cent coming from the sales & marketing, finance and e-commerce sector.
The “healthy economic environment” helped IIM-L maintain its status as a top recruiting destination and attain 100 per cent placements for its largest graduating batch, the institute said in a press communiqué.
A total of 463 job offers were made by 144 recruiters, including 43 new recruiters, for the batch of 453 students. The offers included 93 pre-placement offers (PPO), 163 lateral offers from the higher entry placement process (HEPP) and 207 offers from the final placements. The number of lateral offers was the highest ever and increased by 23 per cent over the previous year.
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Recruiters included ABG, Accenture Management Consulting, Amazon, Barclays, BCG, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, HDFC Bank, KPMG, McKinsey, Reliance Industries, Samsung, Snapdeal and Star TV.
The top segments based on roles offered were sales and marketing (25 per cent), finance (22 per cent), consulting (21 per cent), e-commerce (15 per cent), systems/IT (10 per cent) and general management (7 per cent).
“Given the encouraging economic situation, IIM-L attracted diverse roles in the finance domain. The rest of the offers came from domains such as market research, analytics, business development, social media marketing and human resource, among others,” IIM-L said.
Some top firms from the FMCG, consumer goods, telecom sector and digital media were Airtel, Coke, GSK Consumer, HT Media, HUL, ITC, Kraft-Cadbury, P&G, Pepsi, Star TV and Vodafone.
In addition to traditional sales and marketing roles, they offered roles in supply-chain management, information technology, finance, human resource, and analytics, with some of them being exclusive roles for IIM-L. The world’s top FMCG firms, such as P&G, HUL and Kraft-Cadbury, were also the top three recruiters from this sector.
Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector was represented by firms such as Avendus Capital, BAML, Barclays, Citibank, CRISIL, Development Bank of Singapore, Edelweiss, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, HSBC, ICICI bank, IndusInd Bank, Nomura, Standard Chartered and Yes Bank.
Some of the major roles were offered in front end investment banking, global markets, corporate and wholesale banking, market research, trading and operations.
The consulting domain had an active participation from Accenture Management Consulting, A T Kearney, BCG, Deloitte, E&Y, KPMG, McKinsey and PwC. The general management domain saw participation from companies such as Aditya Birla Group (ABG), JSPL, Mahindra and Mahindra, Reliance Industries and TAS.
Tech recruiters included Amazon, Appsdaily, Cognizant, Commonfloor, eBay, Flipkart, Google, HCL, Infosys,Magicbricks, MAQ Software, Mindtree, PayTm, Shopclues, Snapdeal, Uber and Wipro.
Besides, IIM-L had roped in 43 first time headhunters, with over 60 per cent coming from the sales & marketing, finance and e-commerce sector.