SPJIMR Placements 2006: A Triple Ton in Style

It took the bastion of Indian spirit, the Indian Cricket Team 72 years for a Triple Ton. S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, the pioneering Business School in India, in only its 25th year of inception completed a triple ton in style for the Final Placements of 2006!!!

In a never seen before frenzy of excitement, SPJIMR surpassed the landmark of over 300 offers on campus within a small space of a few hours in pretty much the same way Sehwag raced to his and India's first triple on a scorchy day in Multan.

And if Sehwag's triple was laced with lusty hits all over, SPJIMR's triple reflected the best of offers from myriad sectors ranging from Business Consulting to FMCGs and Banks to IT companies.

A record 75 Companies made a whopping 335 offers to the 147 students who sat for Final Placements from the Class of 2006. Rewriting history, a stunning 35 companies were first time recruiters on campus. If this itself was not path breaking, the candidates also had the icing of multiple offers going upto maximum of 6, that gave them the luxury of choice which they made on February 10, 2006 after completion of the placement process. More than 75% of the Class of 2006 had 2 or more offers to choose from. The highest offers were scored in overs bowled by CTS 16, HCL 14, Genpact 12, Infosys 9 and Wipro 9.

Laced with offers from some of the top notch companies like Accenture, Asian Paints, BNP Paribas,Capgemini, Citibank, Colgate Palmolive, Cadbury, Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank, DSP ML, GE India, Goldman Sachs, HLL, HP, IBM, ICICI Bank, ICICI Securities, Intel, ITC, Lehman Brothers, Microsoft, Nestle, Oracle, SAP, Standard Chartered Bank, TAS and many others, the placement day turned out to be a dream day for every candidate on campus. The highest domestic salary offered was a dazzling Rs. 15.5 lacs by Genpact.

The average salary would be known only after all candidates exercise their choice and all the offer letters are received but a back of envelope calculation indicated it crossing 8.5 lacs. Foreign offers were received from Australia, Singapore and Dubai from Macquarie Bank, P&G and Schlumberger.

If the epic SPJIMR Final Placements for the Class of 2006 is anything to go by, Brian Lara's knock of 400 now seems eminently surpassable in the days to come!

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