IIM Kozhikode Witnesses Best Ever Placements with Average Salary Peaking to Rs. 14.83 Lakh

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Marketing

Marketing continued to perform strongly, with no less than 22% of the Class of 2008 bagging top drawer marketing profiles. Students received offers from HUL, Nestle, Asian
Paints, Britannia, Castrol, Colgate-Palmolive, Dabur, Himalaya, ITC, Marico, NIIT, Raymond and Reckitt Benckiser amongst others. Media and Pharma found special favor among the students with recruiters such as DRL, Johnson & Johnson, NDTV, Pfizer, SET and Times Group participating in Placements 2008.

IT/ITES

Google continued its relationship with IIM-K by offering Product Manager and Sales roles. Global telecom majors such as Aricent and Verizon recruited for the first time from IIM-K making a large number of offers. Infosys showed its faith in the Systems talent at IIMK by making no less than 4 offers for their much sought after Global Engagement Manager role. The institute also continued to strengthen ties with traditional recruiters such as Cognizant, Exl, Genpact, HCL, Indus Valley Partners, Satyam, TCS, and Wipro. 9% of the batch accepted offers in the IT/ITES domain. Profiles on offer in this space included Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Product Manager, and Program Manager, amongst others.

Others

The sunrise retail sector was well represented with Bharti, Essar, Raymond, Reliance and RPG recruiting a large number of students for their retail lines. Operations, HR and General Management accounted for 8% of the roles that were accepted at Final Placements 2008.

The sheer number and diversity of roles on offer during Final Placements 2008 and the number of participating recruiters signal IIM-K's emergence as a rich training ground that moulds tomorrow's business leaders, and a preferred hunting ground for industry. Consistently challenging itself to break new frontiers and push the envelope further, IIM-K is truly re-defining the moniker - the Next Generation IIM.

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