Ahmedabad, March 10: All the students in the post-graduate programme in management (PGP) of IIM, Ahmedabad, have found jobs in 110 different firms in India and abroad. IIM-A had introduced a cohort-based placement process this time around.
With 53 per cent of the batch eligible, the thrust on lateral placements ensured that students could leverage their experience to the hilt. Firms like Deloitte Consulting, A&M, Yes Bank, TSMG, Cognizant, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon and Philips were some of the major recruiters during the process.
More than 40 firms participated in the laterals process and extended more than 100 offers, an increase of four times over last year, IIM-A sources said.
Eight students have been recruited by McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group each while five students have been employed by Bain and Company, Booz and Company, AT Kearney and Oliver Wyman, besides others.
Like last year, this year saw international offers being made to students of this institute. Goldman Sachs offered multiple roles in London while banks like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank offered roles across Asia-Pacific. Sources added in a marked development that probably is an indicator of conditions improving dramatically for IT firms, Cybage and Syntel Inc made offers for their US operations. P&G, with four acceptances, continued with its trend of extending a majority of its offers for Singapore operations.
The students also got international offers from banks like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank.
Adding that the new cohort based placement process has been well received by students and recruiters, chairperson of placements, Prof. Saral Mukherjee, said, “The innovation in campus recruitment this year was done to reorient the placement process and serve the recruiter better.”
He said, “We will not claim the new placement process as a success till the student placed contributes to the society and becomes invaluable for the recruiter. We do not indulge in claiming superficial victories over any institute on any dimension of placement.” The IIM-A placement process was on since a month.
Deepal Trivedi