JBIMS Summer Placements Offer Students Opportunity to Work for their Dream Companies

JBIMS Summer Placements Offer Students Opportunity to Work for their Dream Companies

Even with a batch size of just 120, over a 100 companies registered for Summer Placements 2007 at JBIMS, bringing with them a plethora of profiles ranging from Financial Advisory Services to Infrastructure Project Finance to Consumer Market Analytics. The concept of

a dream company continued from where it had left off in Final Placements 2007, with students choosing their most preferred profile from as many as three offers.

The placement process gave every student sufficient time to evaluate various profiles on offer and select the ones that were most preferred. The highest domestic stipend on offer touched six figures at Rs. 1,00.000, a whopping 67% rise over last year. The average domestic stipend also touched an all time high of Rs. 47,000 (Rs. 23,500 per month).

FMCG & Pharma

This year saw the resurgence of FMCG majors on campus with 21% of the batch accepting offers from the sector. Proctor & Gamble led the way, making six offers. Heavyweights such as HUL, Nestle, Colgate Palmolive, and Coca Cola also recruited in numbers. Other major FMCG recruiters like ITC, Cadburys, Dabur, Britannia, L'Oreal, Heinz and Castrol participated in the process. Titan and DuPont made several offers for their marketing profiles.

The Pharmaceutical Sector was well-represented by majors like Pfizer and Astra Zeneca. Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer recruited interns for its finance and marketing functions. Johnson & Johnson Medical also made several offers for its marketing, finance and operations profiles.

Banking & Financial Services

JBIMS continued to live up to its reputation of being a favourite amongst top banks and financial services companies. Over 30% of the batch opted to do their internship in this sector in reputed organizations such Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, ICICI, Kotak Mahindra and Axis Bank. Profiles on offer include M&A advisory, debt syndication, treasury, and credit and risk management.

KPMG lead the pack of Financial Services companies and made offers for its Financial Advisory Services division. "It feels great to have made it to one of the Big Four for my internship," says Harshal Pandya who would be doing his summers with KPMG.

India's leading merchant bank AK Capital Services Limited offered profiles in investment banking and wealth management. Commodity Exchange NCDEX recruited for projects in their Spot Markets division. Financial Services sector also saw the participation of regular recruiters like GE Money and American Express. IDFC recruited two students for its project evaluation and appraisal practice.

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Contributed by -
The Corporate Relations Committee,
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

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