Speedy placements at XLRI

B-SCHOOL BEAT

All 124 students of the 2004 batch of the Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, were made job offers on the first day of placements.

The highest salary offer, at Rs 8.78 lakh, was from Coca-Cola; the lowest was Rs 4.2 lakh. A total of 162 offers were made and the IT and FMCG sectors tied at the top with 32 accepted offers each.

The top recruiter this year was Wipro, which recruited 10 candidates, followed by Accenture, which picked up eight students.

Other IT companies that made offers were IBM, Wipro, Infosys and HCL. Consulting firms, which included PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young, Ma Foi and Hewitt Associates, made over 20 offers.

Banks and financial institutions like J P Morgan Chase, Standard Chartered, Citibank, AIG, ICICI, ABN Amro, State Bank of India, SBI Caps, UTI Bank and ICICI PruLife made offers to 18 candidates.

FMCG majors "" HLL, ITC, Britannia, Colgate Palmolive, Reckitt Benckiser, Coke and Pepsi "" have signed on 32 students.

Banks, finance firms pick IBS graduates

Students of Mumbai's ICFAI Business School (IBS)this year notched up placements at some of the country's top banking and financial firms.

These include Om Kotak Mahindra, KPMG, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, ICICI Bank, ING Vysya Financial Services, IDBI Bank, Crisil and Standard Chartered Finance.

IDBI Bank picked 15 students, while seven firms recruited more than five students each. Placements are still on at the b-school.