Pre-Placement
Offers Spanning Multiple Profiles & Sectors Rain at IMI-Delhi
PGDM Programme & PGDM (HR) Programme
When It Rains, It Pours...
Nothing sums up the placements
season at IMI Delhi better than this age-old idiom. The placements season
began on a bright note as the students of Batch of 2008 returned from
their summer placements with a record breaking number of PPOs (Pre-Placement
Offers), including international PPOs from M. B. Holdings, Muscat. Some of the
prominent domestic companies who offered PPOs were: Asian Paints, Dr. Reddy's
Laboratories, DSCL, Firstsource, Genpact, RPG Group, Tata Motors, Vedanta, etc.,
just to name a few. Interesting to note was that not only did the PPOs span
multiple profiles and multiple sectors; they also included lateral level PPOs,
most notably with the RPG Group offering lateral positions in its corporate
cadre at the regional manager level.
PGDM
2006-08 Batch
International Placements
Jumbo Electronics from
Dubai and M. B. Holding Company LLC from Oman participated in the final
placement process. Jumbo Electronics recruited three students for their UAE
operations at an INR equivalent package of 26 Lakhs p.a. The profiles offered
were across specializations and for their retail and distribution operations.
Lateral
Placements
Taking into consideration the
fact that close to 20 percent of the Batch of 2008 were eligible for lateral
level placements, the second leg of the placements began with the lateral
placement week. The laterals week took-off with profiles that ranged from
Project Finance, Risk Management, Corporate & Institutional Sales, Realty
Consulting, SAP Implementation, Business Transition & Solutions Design. The
average package for the lateral candidates stood at INR 11.0 Lakhs p.a. and
the largest recruiter was SBI Life picking 5 students across various verticals
inducting them directly to middle management.
With a total of
58 companies having confirmed their presence
for the final leg of placements and backed by the unprecedented success of the
laterals week, the 98 remaining students were extremely confident as they
carefully chose amongst all the jobs on offer.
Marketing
For the marketing profile, this
year too, ITC remained the top paymaster, recruiting 3 students for its
prestigious AUT programme, doling out the highest package on campus, INR 12.1
Lakhs p.a. Among the other FMCG companies, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)
recruited 7 students for its sales & distribution profile. Even the cigarettes
major, Godfrey Philips participated in placements at IMI for the first time.
Another sector that made its
presence felt on campus was the Telecom sector. The telecom biggies, Vodafone,
Idea Cellular and Tata Teleservices paid handsomely and recruited students for
their MT programmes with a variety of roles spanning from their VAS, Roaming,
Product & Enterprise Businesses. Representing the automotive sector, Tata Motors
and Maruti continued their association with IMI by recruiting students for their
corresponding MT programmes. C. B. Richard Ellis and DTZ comprised of the real
estate consulting firms who visited campus. Remarkably, Adidas selected IMI as
one of its campuses while launching its first MT programme, profiles offered
were in retail, operations and brand. Amongst the other sectors that visited the
campus were JSW Steel (Steel), Vedanta (Minerals) and Quantum Market Research,
India's premier qualitative market research firm. The sector-wise break-up is as
follows: -
Finance
It was a great season for the
finance students as well; several of the biggest names of the industry visited
the campus for the first time. Among the prominent recruiters were
Lehman Brothers with its front-end I-Banking profile, A. T. Kearney with its
consulting advisory, Adventity in the analytics and knowledge services domain,
UBS in securities and wealth management, Power Finance Corporation for project
finance. The campus also saw participation from ICRA, India's leading credit
rating firm, Axis Risk Consulting in the consulting domain, Deloitte & Touche
for their financial and business advisory, C. B. Richard Ellis in Real estate
consulting, and Darashaw for investment services: including investments, equity
research and debt intermediation.
Banking &
Financial Sector Institutions
The banking and financial
services sector was well-represented with a slew of domestic as well as MNC
banks. Amongst the banks that participated were Barclays, Citibank, ICICI Bank
and HDFC bank. There were multiple profiles up on offer from corporate banking,
treasury sales, micro-finance, retail banking, asset & liability sales, and so
on. Amongst the other prominent firms from the BFSI sector were Tata Capital,
representing financial services and SBI Life representing the Insurance sector.
The sector this season saw Barclays Bank emerging as the highest paying
recruiter, recruiting 5 students at a package of INR 9.0 Lakhs p.a.
Systems &
Operations
The students focused on building
a career in systems had a lot to cheer about, apart from the regular recruiters:
Infosys and Infosys BPO providing roles across domains as consultants and
business analysts. They also saw diverse systems profiles coming to campus, such
as the profile that was offered by Bank of America Continuum Solutions,
providing high-end transactions processing. Operations profiles in ITES were
offered by Genpact and Firstsource. Also offered were operations profiles across
Banking and Financial services. A conventional operations profile was also
offered in Pharma by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories.
