254 offers were made for a batch of 245 students over 3.5 days
XLRI-Xavier School of Management’s final recruitment process saw participation from 103 recruiters which included over 32 new recruiters and 254 offers were made for a batch of 245 students over a period of 3.5 days. The business school placed its entire batch of 245 students of its flagship Business Management and Human Resource Management Programs in just 3.5 days.
Last year, the institute placed 98 per cent of its students in four days. About 75 recruiters had participated in the process, with 255 offers being made for a batch of 240 students. This year, 79 students were offered PPOs (Pre-Placement Offers) from their summer internships, compared to 65 students last year. The median salary of the batch was over Rs 16.25 lakhs per annum.
According to the final placement report, BFSI and Consulting firms recruited in large numbers with around 50 per cent of the Business Management students being offered roles in the Finance and Consulting domains.
Companies from across sector made their presence felt at the campus recruitment process. Recruiters from the BFSI space included Aviva, Axis Bank, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, HSBC, ICICI Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Nomura, and YES Bank among others.
ICICI Bank was the largest finance recruiter. HDFC Bank offered roles in its Treasury department. Corporate Banking roles were offered by Citibank and HSBC among others. Creador, a Private Equity Firm offered a niche role.
From the FMCG sector, companies like Asian Paints, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Marico, Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G, Pepsi, Puma, Reckitt Benckiser, Unileveramong others offered roles in Sales and Marketing and HR functions. ITC was the largest recruiter in the FMCG space. The chemicals giant DuPont offered its marketing leadership development role at XLRI.
The pharmaceutical and medical sector was strongly represented by participation from majors like Bebitz, Bioxcel, Dr. Reddy’s, Medtronic, Ranbaxy and Sanofi. The media sector too made its presence felt with Set India, Star TV and Times Innovative offering roles in their Sales and Marketing function. Airtel, Cisco, Ericsson and Vodafone represented the Communications and the Networking space while Philips, Samsung and Videocon were the recruiters from the Consumer Durables sector here at XLRI.
General Management once again was one of the preferred sectors on campus with major industry players like Aditya Birla Group, Hinduja Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, RPG and TAS offering a large number of roles in this area.
The consulting domain saw the participation of industry majors such as Accenture Strategy, Capgemini Consulting, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Everest Group, Hay Group, iCRM, KPMG, McKinsey & Co., Price Waterhouse Coopers, The Boston Consulting Group, TSMG and Vector Consulting. Ernst & Young offered its prestigious transaction advisory role. International roles were also offered to students.
Technology and e-commerce were the other highlights with some of the key recruiters being Amazon, EXL, Flipkart, Jabong, Microsoft, Sandisk, TCS, UST Global, Virtusa and Wipro who offered roles in program management, sales & marketing, HR and operations.