Recruiters Tailor Specific Roles to Woo Best Business Grads at XLRI Final Placements

The placement season for the batch of 2008 ended on an exceptional note, with the batch of 180 students placing themselves in the crème de la crème of corporate responsibilities across the domain of business expertise. A notable feature of the
entire process was not just the increased leeway for the average student to choose, but also depth of specific roles that were tailored to woo the best of the country's business graduates. 298 offers were made for a batch of 180 students, with the average domestic offer coming in at INR 14.75 Lakhs and the highest domestic offer being INR 28.0 Lakhs. 12 international offers were also made with an average international salary of $ 90,000 USD.

The first time recruiters included the likes of JM Financial, Barclays, Kotak, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, Centrum, Aptivaa, among others. 8 Capital Hedge Fund recruited exclusively from XLRI while P&G for the first time offered branding roles for XLRI students.

31% of the offers were made in the Finance domain, in Private Equity, Hedge Funds Investment Banking, Treasury, Commercial Banking, Relationship Management, Trading, Mergers & Acquisition Advisory, and Human Relations, among others. A plethora of multinational and domestic giants such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, JM Financial, HSBC, Citibank, Barclays, Deutsche Equities, Standard Chartered, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, ICICI Bank, ICRA, Kotak and Centrum, were among the first to recognize the ever-increasing stature of XLRI in the Financial Domain. The quality of candidates was impressive enough for the recruiters to offer treasury roles at their offices in London, Toronto, and Bahrain.

Consulting roles offered on campus followed the same pattern. McKinsey, Accenture, The Hay Group, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Mercer, PWC, Hewitt Associates, Deloitte, Aptivaa were some of the global players who contributed to the added portfolio of consulting options that the typical student found in her consideration set. 21% of the students accepted these offers which were spread across verticals - Strategy, Banking and Financial Services, Human Resources, Risk Management, among others.

Keeping in tradition with its image of a veritable powerhouse of Marketing & Sales talent, XLRI was the hub of the best of the global FMCG majors vying for a share of the marketing interest in the batch. Procter & Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Nestle, Cadbury, Asian Paints, Reckitt Benckiser, Marico, Glaxo Smithkline, ITC, Pepsi, were some of the recruiters to reinforce their traditional relationships with the campus and 23% of the students accepted offers in this domain. Along with the traditional sales positions, branding and marketing roles (with international locations) were the new positions that the same recruiters offered. Notably, Global Sales and Strategy were offered as lateral entry positions by IT majors like Infosys and HCL Technologies - a paradigm shift from the traditional breadth of branding on campus.

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