Placements
2008 at IFMR-Chennai Offered Dream Profiles & Attractive Compensationstext
"Dreams come true!" would be an
apt description for IFMR's final placements where students not only got their
dream profiles but also attractive compensation. 16
companiestext from diverse sectors participated in the campus placement
process for Full-time PGDM Batch of 2006-08. 85% of the batch was placed on
first day of the placement week within a matter of few hours. On an average,
there were 1.40 offers per studenttext to choose
from. text
The
highest offer was made by UBS for Rs. 8.5 Lakhs per annumtext, a
commendable increase from last year's Rs. 7.5 Lakhs. The median CTC is Rs. 6.75
Lakhs, a remarkable increase of 20.5 % from last year's Rs. 5.6 Lakhs.text
Companiestext
Following companies participated
in campus recruitment vying with each other to woo the best talent: -text
|
Sectorstext |
Companiestext |
|
Consultingtext |
Aptivaa Consulting & Deloitte Touche
Tohmatsu Pvt. Ltd.text |
|
Investment Bankingtext |
Darashaw & UBStext |
| Equity
Researchtext |
Irevna,
Darashaw & UBStext |
|
Banking & Financial Servicestext |
ICICI
Bank, ICICI Securities, Olam
International, Citigroup Global
Services & IFMR Trusttext |
|
Information & Technologytext |
Infosys, Cognizant, HCL Tech,
Verizon Data Services & Saskentext |
|
Hospitalitytext |
Taj
Hotelstext |
First time recruiters like
Darashaw, UBS, Irevna, Verizon, Taj Hotels, Olam were very impressed with the
quality of the students and the intellectual capital. Mr. Manvinder Singh,
GM - Structured Products, OLAM, said, "Thorough financial knowledge. We
will be there every year." Ms. Chhavi Bajaj, Sr. Manager - HR, UBS,
said that she was impressed with the quality of the students and their good
exposure to financial concepts. text
Highest number of offers was made
by ICICI Bank with 10 offers. 9 students were selected for their treasury
department, a dream profile for many finance students. Some of the remarkable
profiles this year were in Risk Management, Project Finance, Equity Research
Analyst, Investment Banking Analytics, Trader-Structured Products and Business
Development Manager. text
Compensationtext
Though 100% placement is
something IFMR can boast since its PGDM FT Batch I from 2000 to present batch,
the real icing on the cake was the CTCs on offer. More than 90% of the batch was
offered more than Rs. 6.0 Lakhs; offers of more than Rs. 7.0 Lakhs were made to
more than a third of the batch mirroring the consistent quality of students.text
The stellar performance of the
batch as a whole testifies IFMR's commitment to quality education and IFMR's
growing stature in the corporate world.text
