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IIM Calcutta has achieved 100 per cent placement for its 2016-2018 batch within a span of over two days with the consulting sector emerging as the top recruiter, according to a release. A total of 481 offers were made by 131 firms of which nearly 50 per cent were from the consulting and finance sectors, the release said. Consulting stood as the top recruiter covering 27 per cent of the total batch with Accenture Strategy being the top recruiter, it said. Financial firms contributed to 23 per cent of the total offers with major recruiters being J P Morgan & Co, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs and CitiBank. Bessemer Venture Partners, the oldest venture capital firm in the US, also visited IIM Calcutta for the first time. Other major sectors included marketing (16 per cent), general management (14 per cent), product management and operations (12 per cent) and IT and Analytics (8 per cent). Amazon, Aditya Birla ...
Of the 481 offers made by over 130 firms, the consulting made the most at 27 per cent, followed by finance at 23 per cent
A total of 188 offers amounting to 41 per cent of the total batch were from finance and consulting sectors
Altogether 51 students attracted recruiters including Fortune 500 companies in the recently concluded internship placements at the second batch (2016- 2018) of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) programme by IIM Calcutta. The members of the batch, with varied professional profiles, were offered an average monthly stipend of Rs 92,447 from the domestic recruiters with the highest stipend being offered Rs 1,25,000, an IIM-C statement said today. International recruiters offered an average monthly stipend of Rs 97,804 and the highest stipend offered stood at Rs 2,45,000. The recruiters included companies like Walmart Labs, American Express, MasterCard, Dunia Finance, Mitsubishi Fuso, and Truenorth. In the consulting domain, the recruiters are PwC, Ernst & Young, Alvarez & Marsal and others, the statement said. Students were also hired by American Express, Yes Bank and MasterCard in financial services segment, while companies like DE Shaw and ...
The finance sector churned out the maximum number of offers
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