Almost 55% Students of Great Lakes Opt for Career Shifts During Final Placements

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Placement Highlights

Great Lakes, in its four years of existence, has not only been growing at an exponential rate but is also being increasingly recognized as a B-school to reckon with.
With the current placement season ending on a high note, the future of students at Great Lakes is looking increasingly bright.

Great Lakes: The Choice of Professionals

Placements clearly demonstrated how choosing Great Lakes has worked wonderfully well for entry as well middle-level professionals. Great Lakes, which considers professionals' full-time work experience as highly desirable for its course, has provided an economical alternative to those professionals who want a high professional return from their MBA.

Quoting specific instances, Shalini Chandran, who had 9-months of experience prior to her MBA at Great Lakes, walked away with a coveted banking role in a leading international bank with a 7-digit package. Also sharing the trend have been students like Sahana J.V., a software engineer, and Karthikeyan, an automobile engineer, both having 10-months of work experience before joining the program, have ended with offers well in excess of INR 10 Lakhs from a leading banking and an international manufacturing company respectively. Even people in higher bracket experience have praise for their 1-year PGPM experience at Great Lakes.

Students with more than 5 years of work experience were able to get coveted roles such as Senior Manager, Senior Consultant, Business Development Manager, etc. Srivas Ramgopal, who was a tech-lead in an IT major and had work experience of 6 years, will now be joining a telecom company in a senior management role at an attractive package.

Also students got better profiles and career jumps in their previous companies too. For example, Nikhil Deshpande, who was working as an engineer in India's largest engineering conglomerate prior to his MBA at Great Lakes, will now be going back to the same company as Executive Assistant to Chairman & Managing Director! Overall, students of Great Lakes just didn't get better profiles in their previous industries but also were able to switch to new industries. Indeed an indication of the value added by Great Lakes in this one year.

Career Shifts at Great Lakes

One of the interesting features about the placements this year is the success of Great Lakes in providing career shifts to a large number of students. Close to 90 students out of a batch of 164 students have opted for a sector change from their previous sectors. This throws an interesting insight about how MBAs are willing to experiment and try out new things in his exciting phase of growing economy.

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