Entrepreneurial Ventures Found Favour with IIM Lucknow Students During Summer Placements

Entrepreneurial Ventures Found Favour with IIM Lucknow Students During Summer Placements

IIM Lucknow recently concluded its Summer Placement 2008. In light of global economic cues, the effort was to invite a larger number of firms so as to ensure ample choice for the students of the Batch of 2010, the largest batch across premier B-schools this year.

More than 110 organisations participated in Summer Placements 2008 at IIM Lucknow, making it one of the largest and most exciting recruitment exercises to be conducted across B-school campuses. Firms from across verticals demonstrated their confidence in the quality of students and reaffirmed their choice of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruiting partner.

IIM Lucknow continued to attract the best organizations in the banking and financial sector and these companies offered a wide spectrum of roles across functions to the students. More than 32% students chose the financial sector as their preferred vertical. The major I-Banking / PE firms in this sector included Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Baring Private Equity Partners, O3 Capital, 2i Capital, Seedfund, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs. The long standing relationship with premier banks like Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, RBS Group, American Express, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank was further strengthened.

IIM Lucknow re-asserted its standing as a premier consulting campus with participation from consulting giants like McKinsey & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewitt Consulting, Frost & Sullivan, and many other top consulting firms. Top general Management profiles from TAS and Aditya Birla Group further add to this impressive list.

As has been a trend in the past, placements in the field of sales and marketing attracted the best organizations in the world. Corporates such as HUL, P&G, Nokia, Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, GlaxoSmithKline, Alshaya, Bharti Group, ITC, Marico, Asian Paints, Dabur, Colgate Palmolive, Cadbury and Reckitt Benckiser recruited students in large numbers to spearhead their marketing initiatives.

IIM Lucknow further strengthened its relationship with regular recruiters such as L&T, RPG, Futures First, IBM, Cognizant, Wipro and TCS while fostering new relationships with firms like Merrill Lynch, 2i Capital, Microsoft, IMACS, Diageo, Seedfund, Emergent Ventures and many others. The fact that a battery of firms was willing to forge new relationships with the institute in these troubled times stands testimony to the fact that there always is demand for quality managerial talent coming from the nation's premier B-school.

Building over past trends, several IIM Lucknow students will be pursuing internships in locations like Singapore, London, Switzerland, United States and the Middle East. International locations were offered by McKinsey & Co., Aditya Birla Group, TAS, HUL, P&G, Cognizant, Diageo and Alshaya Group.

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Contributed by -
Manish Dev,
Media Relations,
IIM Lucknow.

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