IIMK Summer
Placements 2008 Shatter Existing Records, Set New Benchmarks
Summer Placements season at IIM
Kozhikode ended in grand style, with the participating batch of 193 students,
including participants of the Fellow Program in Management (FPM), assured of a
rich learning environment at some of the top corporate houses from India and
abroad. IIMK's performance this year outshone last year's record-breaking
placements season comfortably, setting new benchmarks along the way.
Summer Placements 2008 saw
participation from 66 top recruiters from India and abroad. IIMK's
continuous emphasis on forging new relationships meant that 22 new recruiting
partners participated in placements at IIMK for the first time. Some of the
new names added to IIMK's increasingly impressive roster included: Google,
Freudenberg, Accenture Business Consulting, Citibank,
Bank of America, KPMG, Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Hewitt
Associates, amongst others.
Freudenberg, the diversified
German conglomerate that offers its customers technically challenging products
and services in a wide variety of businesses ranging from chemicals to IT
services, across the world, initiated a relationship with IIMK this year.
Freudenberg was one of the most coveted recruiters on campus, and recruited
students for positions in Germany and Hong Kong. Freudenberg, as an exclusive
recruiter, recruits only from very select business school campuses in India, and
its participation at Summer Placements 2008 speaks volumes about IIMK's
perception as the preferred destination for top-drawer managerial talent.
IIMK strengthened its
relationship with existing recruiters, even as they demonstrated consistently
increasing faith in the quality of talent available at IIMK. Prominent names
that participated at Summer Placements 2008 included: YES BANK, Johnson &
Johnson, HUL, Yahoo!, Edelweiss, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, Ocwen, American Express,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston Analytics, Marico, CHAINalytics, Standard
Chartered Bank, Deloitte Consulting, Colgate-Palmolive, ITC, Asian Paints, and
Tata Motors, amongst others.
