Placement 2012: Marketing, Finance emerge favourite at XIMB; Avg Package @ Rs 11.5 lakh

May 7, 2012 - PRLog -- Marketing and Finance emerged favourite among XIMB students at Final Placement 2012 even as Top companies including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, HSBC, ICICI Bank, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, Godrej, Marico, RB, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Idea, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, TCS recruited the entire batch of PGDM programme at the campus.

While Average annual package offered to students at the campus was Rs. 11.42 lakh, median compensation stood at Rs. 10.83 lakh per annum.  According to the placement report, OLAM International offered the highest international package of USD 50,000 per annum in the General Management profile while the highest domestic salary scaled to Rs.15.5 lakhs per annum.

“Beating the uptight market conditions, XIMB is among the first few campuses to register 100 per cent placements, reiterating the strong academic and industry orientation of the institute,” said the Placement cell of the institute.

As many as 61 companies participated in the process to recruit the batch of 180 students. Apart from the regular recruiters, the campus saw 16 new recruiters visiting the campus to hire talents.  As many as 46 students received PPO/PPI this year, according to the placement report shared by the institute.

The list of top recruiters also included companies like OLAM International, HCCBPL, USL Group, Tata HRDP, Dr Reddy’s, and SBI Capital Markets. The new companies that hired students from the campus included Ashok Leyland, HDFC Life, Emami, Goldman Sachs, Shapoorji Pallonji, Tata Interactive Systems, HSBC and United Breweries Limited to name a few.

The profiles offered at the campus varied in their diversity, encompassing Corporate Finance, Equity Research, Investment Banking, Marketing, Sales and Distribution, Supply Chain Management, Business Consulting, IT consulting and Corporate HR.

As much as 23 per cent of the batch opted for Marketing roles offered by Top companies including Dr. Reddy’s, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, Godrej, Marico, Reckitt Benckiser, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, and IDEA.

In the Finance sector, the campus was visited by the likes of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, SBI Capital Markets, Crisil, ICRA, HSBC, ICICI Bank which altogether recruited 22 per cent of the batch. An equal number of students also opted for IT roles with major IT behemoths
like Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, Polaris, HP ITO, Mindtree etc.

Consulting profiles were also among the favourite of students as 14 per cent of the batch chose to start their career in Business Consulting with companies like Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, KPMG offering different roles in the domain.

The HR area witnessed the presence of recruiters like Tata HRDP, Shapoorji Pallonji, Tata Motors, Capgemini, L&T Group, Vedanta, which recruited 14 per cent of the batch.

General Management, Strategy and Operations also witnessed a rise (around 5 per cent) in recruitments with organizations like Olam International handing out lucrative offers.

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