IIM Lucknow recorded 100% summer placement for the 34th batch (2018-20) of the PGP program with Sales & Marketing at 28% coming up with the maximum offers followed by Consulting at 22%.
e-Commerce shrugged off its 2016 downturn to emerge as the third biggest recruiter at 19% pushing Finance to the fourth place at 17% followed by General Management at 11% and Systems/IT at 3%. The other offers were in Market Research, Analytics, Business Development, Social Media Marketing and HR.
e-Commerce was just10% in the previous year when Sales & Marketing had made 35% of the offers followed by Finance 25%, Consulting 20%, Systems/IT and General Management at 5% each. While e-commerce notched up a 9% rise, the finance sector roles shrunk by about 35%.
Major recruiters in IT, e-commerce and Technology sectors were Amazon, Capgemini, Google, eBay, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, Microsoft, OLX, Pepperfry, Samsung, Swiggy, Uber and Wipro coming up with a total of 87 offers.
The students were also offered roles in category management, business development, supply chain management, product marketing, strategic alliances, program manager and analytics.
First-time recruiters were AstraZeneca, Bain & Company, Bajaj Finserv, Hinduja Group, RBS, and RP-SG Group (GIL), among others. Cipla, Deutsche Bank, HUL, JP Morgan Chase, M H Alshaya offered international profiles.
The placement for the 455-member batch saw the participation of more than 140 domestic and international recruiters. Prominent among them were Accenture Management Consulting, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, AT Kearney, Bain & Company, Citi, Deloitte, HUL, ITC, McKinsey, P&G, TAS, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Uber.
First-time recruiters were AstraZeneca, Bain & Company, Bajaj Finserv, Hinduja Group, RBS, and RP-SG Group (GIL), among others. Cipla, Deutsche Bank, HUL, JP Morgan Chase, M H Alshaya offered international profiles.
IIM-L, in a statement, attributed the ‘outstanding’ summer placements to its contemporary pedagogy, competency and values students acquired at the Institute.
In sector-wise placement, FMCG/consumer goods/telecom/digital media sector made the maximum 129 offers. Major recruiters included Airtel, Asian Paints, Colgate Palmolive, HUL, ITC, J&J, Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, PepsiCo, P&G, Pidilite, Reckitt Benckiser and RP-SG Group (GIL).
The banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector saw American Express, Avendus Capital, Citi, CRISIL, DBS, Deutsche Bank, Duff & Phelps, Edelweiss, JP Morgan and RBS. These offered roles such as front-end investment banking, global markets, investment research, corporate/ wholesale/ retail banking, market research, trading and operations among others.
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In Consulting, Accenture Management Consulting, Alvarez & Marsal, AT Kearney, Auctus Advisors, Bain & Company, Deloitte, McKinsey & Co., MasterCard Advisors and The Boston Consulting Group made a total of 98 offers. The General Management domain saw participation from companies such as Aditya Birla Group, Airtel, Mahindra, RIL, RPG, Star India, TAS and Vodafone Idea Limited.
The companies coming up international offers were Cipla, Deutsche Bank, HUL, JP Morgan Chase & Co. and M H Alshaya & Co.
