Autumn Internship
Placements of SPJIMR's PGDSM-MIT Batch Prove Successful
The autumn internship placements
of PGDSM-MIT Batch of 2006-08, were an astounding success, with 100%
batch placement and an average of 1.6 offers per student. PGDSM-MIT is a
unique two-year globally-focussed dual degree program in Systems Management. The
course is celebrating its third year since inception.
The autumn internship model was introduced for PGDSM-MIT for the first time this
year.
As an integral part of the
Systems Management course, autumn internships are designed to provide management
students an opportunity to put their learning into practice, while enabling
companies to assess quality managers-in-the-making by exposing them to real-time
projects.
With 27 companies making a
beeline to SPJIMR's campus on Day 1 for a batch of 63 candidates, it
wasn't much of a surprise when a total of 104 challenging profiles across
varied domains were offered. The recruiters competed against each other, luring
the participants with exciting projects in the areas of Marketing Strategy,
Process Consulting, SCM Consulting, IT Strategy, Business Research and
Pre-sales. It was indeed a dilemma of sorts for those with multiple offers!
The list of companies
included some of the giants in the industry such as SAP India, IBM, GE,
Capgemini, TCS, Wipro, Cognizant Technology Solutions, HP, HCL, RPG, Aditya
Birla Group, Honeywell, Frost & Sullivan, Alcatel Lucent, Aricent, ICICI,
Siemens, M&M, NCDEX, i2 Technologies and Nihilent, to name a few, with GE making
the maximum number of offers. The overall highlight of the program was Siemens
Information Systems Ltd. making pre-placement offers.
The companies found that the
course PGDSM-MIT fosters superior expertise in terms of functional, domain and
business knowledge along with values through the pedagogic practices at SPJIMR.
Prof. Abbasali Gabula,
Chairperson, External Relations remarked that the companies gave positive
feedback and were looking forward to come back to campus for final placements.
Prof. Sunil Rai, Joint
Director, SPJIMR, said, "The enthusiasm and involvement of each and every
participant, both in the junior and senior batches were commendable. And of
course, the results speak for themselves."
All in all, the staggering
success of the first ever autumn internship process has left impressions in the
minds of one and all that promise to last forever, setting a new precedent for
the final placements.
