Summer Placements at FMS-Delhi Offered 'a Choice of Plenty' to its Students

Summer Placements at FMS-Delhi Offered 'a Choice of Plenty' to its Students

Consulting & General Management

Summers 2007 saw the participation of many leading consulting firms like Accenture, KPMG (India & Middle East) and Mercer. Many other companies like TAS, Sharaf Group, Frost & Sullivan, RPG Group

and industrial group DCM Shriram (DSCL) offered profiles in consulting and general management. Vodafone, IBM, Yahoo, Essar and Lufthansa also offered roles in strategy and management consulting. A good 18% of the batch opted for a variety of roles in this sector, establishing FMS as the desired destination for consulting firms.

IT Consulting

The IT sector saw handsome participation from global heavyweights like Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, SAP-VE, Cognizant, Mindtree Consulting and Wipro. GE also offered its highly reputed Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP) and picked up 2 students. Approximately, 10% of the batch opted for IT profile for their summers. Candidates showed a clear inclination for choosing challenging profiles over lucrative stipends offered by companies.

The Placement Convener, Dr. Madhu Vij, said, "The summer internship program at FMS provides students with an ideal platform to explore the various verticals and domains. We help them make the right decision by offering them plenty of choices with respect to both companies and profiles. The summer placements at FMS this year have broken all past records. The number of international offers by MNCs and Indian companies has increased manifold. The companies were extremely happy with the quality of students and in many cases have ended up making more offers than what they intended to."

"Summer Internship is the nursery for the future business leaders to bloom. The type of assignments that FMS interns are being offered by the cream of the corporate world is quite astounding and reflects great faith in the capabilities of our students," said Prof. J. K. Mitra, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi.

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Contributed by -
Pritish Mehta,
Media Relations,
Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi.

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