Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) achieved 100% final placements for the PGP Class of 2014-16 with Finance and Consulting sector claiming the biggest number of the graduates
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citibank, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, JPMC, Avendus Capital, ICICI Securities, Kotak IBD, Edelweiss were among the top recruiters.
The placement process for the 439-students batch was completed in just two and half days. The graduates received as many as 500 job offers, including 21 international.
Investment banking was again in the reckoning but it was consulting sector that accounted for 20% of the total offers.
The firms wooing graduates included Bain & Co, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, AT Kearney, and Accenture Management Consulting Alvarez and Marsal, Opera Solutions, Ernst & Young and Deloitte Consulting were also among the recruiters. Accenture was the largest recruiter this sector with 18 offers.
Hindustan Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Johnson & Johnson, STAR India, Asian Paints, ITC, Phillips came up with offers in sales & marketing while first time recruiter AdCuratio pitched in with international offers.
An increased number of leadership and general management roles were offered by Tata Administrative Services, Aditya Birla Group, C K Birla Group, Samsung India, Reliance Industries and Wipro. Aditya Birla Group topped this category with 17 offers.
The good tidings for the e-commerce sector, boosted by the government’s initiatives like Start-up India, found an echo in the placements with around 20 per cent of the offers from e-commerce and web-based start-ups. These included Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, PayTM, Olacabs, Uber and RedBus, with Amazon being the top recruiter. Chinese firm Xiaomi was among recruiters looking to fill the product manager role.
First time recruiters in the sector were online medical practice management firm CallHealth, digital marketing firm Amagi Media Labs and logistics start-up Loginext Solution.
