20% of the Batch Receives Pre-Placement Offers at IIFT, Delhi

IIFT is an internationally acknowledged and networked institution in delivering globally competitive business education and research for individuals, corporates, government and society.

IIFTians are the most sought-after in the corporate world today as they have over the years demonstrated strong analytical skills, strategic thinking and breadth of knowledge to hit the ground running in any industry.
This has been reaffirmed in the Final Placements of the batch of 2005-07. More than 80 companies agreed to participate in the process to recruit a batch of 115 students, with students landing plum offers from the crème de la crème of 41 recruiters.

Lehman Brothers, UBS, DTZ, Citigroup, Standard Chartered, Yes Bank were the prominent recruiters in the Banking and Financial Services domain. The Marketing arena was represented by companies like Bharti, Colgate-Palmolive, ITC, Nestle, SAB Miller, Glenmark and many more. Olam International and Backes & Strauss made international offers apart from offers from Australian Wheat Board for their Trading operations. The booming IT/ITeS sector was represented by Accenture, IBM, Cognizant, Infosys among others. Placements 2007 have been unrivalled in the history of the institute.

The placement day started with less than the full strength, as 20% of the batch had already received pre-placement offers well before the placement week started. With the recruiters including companies from sectors such as FMCG, banking, consulting, trading, IT, pharmaceutical, trading and logistics, the average package offered this year was INR 9.3 Lakhs with highest international package of USD 100,000 and highest domestic package of INR 19.2 Lakhs. The other higher paying offers were from Citigroup, Backes and Strauss, Standard Chartered, DTZ, etc.

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