JBIMS Summer
Placements Offer Students Opportunity to Work for their Dream Companies
Even with a batch size of just
120, over a 100 companies registered for Summer Placements 2007 at JBIMS,
bringing with them a plethora of profiles ranging from Financial Advisory
Services to Infrastructure Project Finance to Consumer Market Analytics. The
concept of
a dream company continued from where it had left off in Final Placements 2007,
with students choosing their most preferred profile from as many as three
offers.
The placement process gave every
student sufficient time to evaluate various profiles on offer and select the
ones that were most preferred. The highest domestic stipend on offer touched
six figures at Rs. 1,00.000, a whopping 67% rise over last year. The
average domestic stipend also touched an all time high of Rs. 47,000 (Rs.
23,500 per month).
FMCG &
Pharma
This year saw the resurgence of
FMCG majors on campus with 21% of the batch accepting offers from the sector.
Proctor & Gamble led the way, making six offers. Heavyweights such as HUL,
Nestle, Colgate Palmolive, and Coca Cola also recruited in numbers. Other major
FMCG recruiters like ITC, Cadburys, Dabur, Britannia, L'Oreal, Heinz and Castrol
participated in the process. Titan and DuPont made several offers for their
marketing profiles.
The Pharmaceutical Sector was
well-represented by majors like Pfizer and Astra Zeneca. Global pharmaceutical
giant Pfizer recruited interns for its finance and marketing functions. Johnson
& Johnson Medical also made several offers for its marketing, finance and
operations profiles.
Banking &
Financial Services
JBIMS continued to live up to its
reputation of being a favourite amongst top banks and financial services
companies. Over 30% of the batch opted to do their internship in this sector in
reputed organizations such Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, ICICI, Kotak
Mahindra and Axis Bank. Profiles on offer include M&A advisory, debt
syndication, treasury, and credit and risk management.
KPMG lead the pack of Financial
Services companies and made offers for its Financial Advisory Services division.
"It feels great to have made it to one of the Big Four for my internship," says
Harshal Pandya who would be doing his summers with KPMG.
India's leading merchant bank AK
Capital Services Limited offered profiles in investment banking and wealth
management. Commodity Exchange NCDEX recruited for projects in their Spot
Markets division. Financial Services sector also saw the participation of
regular recruiters like GE Money and American Express. IDFC recruited two
students for its project evaluation and appraisal practice.
