Recession Beaten Again in the Recruitment Game at IIM Calcutta

Recession Beaten Again in the Recruitment Game at IIM Calcutta

Sector-wise Information

Signaling the end of the bad times, finance dominated the scenario with 43% of the students taking up jobs in banks. This included 80 offers in investment banks and private equity firms, as compared to last year’s 58. The Slot Zero consulting firms made 20 offers, up from 16 in 2008.

Sector-wise information of placement

Marketing firms recruited 50% more than last time, gathering up more than a quarter of the students in the process. Leading marketing companies like HUL made more offers this year than any other year in recent times.

Apart from media houses like HT media and star, the campus was visited by NGOs such as CRY and akanksha. Public sector firms such as Union bank of India and SEBI also made internship offers here. For the first time, IIMC played host to sports marketing and event management companies.

Conclusion

The six-day process ended up placing 407 students, making it the most intensive placement process in India. The intensity gains significance as the six day period includes a Sunday, a day that hosted very few firms. At the end of the process, there were at least 30 potential offers, making the number of offers much more than the number of students in process.

The corporate world has once again reaffirmed its faith in the students of IIM Calcutta. An aggregate of 140 companies showed interest in hiring from this campus, up from last year’s 110. With the support of the recruiters, alumni, faculty, staff and students of IIM Calcutta, the college has overcome the challenge in terms of the batch size, and has made the recession look insignificant.

Concluded.

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Contributed by -
Paul Savio & Rohan Mahajan,
External Relations Secretaries,
IIM, Calcutta.

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