XLRI Campus Recruitments Becomes One Stop Destination for Consulting & Finance Majors

The Campus Recruitment Process at XLRI ended with an epoch-making 50% rise in average salary, higher than any B-school in India, with the best, biggest companies from across industries vying for the crème-de-la-crème of the country.
While the average salary stands at Rs. 12.6 Lacs p.a., the median is an astounding Rs. 13.06 Lacs p.a., reflecting the uniformly splendid placement performance of this institute. A lowest salary of Rs. 8.6 Lacs p.a is something which possibly no other B-school in India can boast off! There were 10 foreign offers, with an average of $ 85000.

Consulting Majors Root for XLers

Consulting and Finance firms were the cynosure of this paradigm-shifting placement scene at XLRI. As a salute to the quality of the consulting professionals produced by XLRI, both from its Business Management Programme and Asia’s Best Personnel Management & Industrial Relations Programme, Consulting majors made a beeline to XLRI, making 24% of the offers. McKinsey led the Consulting bandwagon while Hewitt was the top recruiter with 18 offers, followed by Accenture Business Consulting with 8 offers! E&Y, KPMG, Stern Stewart, Mercer, and first timers, TSMG, were the other Big Boys of the Consulting Industry which hand-picked consultants from XLRI.

XLRI Establishes Finance as its Forte

XLRI’s stellar performance in the Finance Sector during the Lateral Recruitment Process was just a prelude to its continued dominance in this sector at the CRP, with 30% of the offers from this sector. Finance students at XLRI were offered a plethora of choices, and they got to pick exactly the super-specialization they had in mind. Profiles ranged from treasury sales, investment banking, risk management, equity research, equity sales, credit rating and private equity. The major recruiters in this sector were Goldman Sachs which made 9 offers, JPMC, Rabo Bank, CitiFinancial, ICRA, L&T, Adventity, and ICICI Prudential. The Banking Sector was represented by leaders like HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered and UTI. With XLRI making its mark in the Money Market, prestigious new recruiters from this sector were drawn towards XLRI, like Calyon, IDFC Private Equity & Ocwen Financials among others.

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