'Rolling Placements' at the Indian School of Business (ISB) going ahead full steam

70% placement achieved midway through the process

Hyderabad, March 6, 2003: The unique Rolling Placement Process at the Indian School of Business (ISB) is going ahead full steam since January 2003. 110 students have received 150 job offers so far, achieving 70% completion midway through the Process. The Rolling Placement Process continues and will be finally completed by mid-April.

The ISB's Class of 2003 has a strength of 169 students. Of these, 155 students are participating in the Placement process while the remaining 14 will be joining business houses that they initially came from.

"We are proud of our achievements in our first year of operations," said Professor Vijay Mahajan, Dean, Indian School of Business. "We successfully introduced the concept of 'lateral hiring' to Indian companies and achieved excellent placement results for the Founding Class of 2002. This year is quite challenging as well and I am confident that we will offer the best to our students and the companies that recruit at ISB."

The ISB's Rolling Placement Process is designed to augment lateral hiring into companies. Placement activities are spread over several months, from January through April, during which time, companies visit the campus and meet with students. The placement activities are divided into two 'Cycles': Cycle 1 through January and mid-February, and Cycle 2 from mid-February to the time of graduation in April. Recruiting companies are not ranked and have the liberty to choose a time frame appropriate to their internal requirements.

More than 60 companies have visited the ISB campus in Cycle 1 including many of the highly respected Indian companies. Companies that have made job offers are:

Astra Zeneca, BCG, Citibank, Coca Cola, Cognizant Technology Solutions, GECIS, Godrej Industries, Hindustan Lever, HSBC, ICICI Bank, I - Gate, Infosys, ITC, McKinsey and Co, Microsoft, Novartis, Reliance Industries, Satyam Computer Systems, TCS, and several others.

Cycle 2 is now in progress. Some of the companies that will be visiting ISB in Cycle 2 are: CGE&Y, Cadbury India, Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Patni Computer Systems, Wockhardt, and many others.

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