11 November 2007

B-School News from Coolavenues.Com

Finance / Consulting Assignments Popular Choice of Students at XLRI Summer Placements

The Summer Placement Process at XLRI was a resounding success, with the crème-de-la-crème of the corporate world vying for the best talents of this country. The profiles offered varied from Hedge Funds to Retail Banking, Strategy Consulting to Human Resources, and Branding to Operations.
With domestic stipends reaching astronomical heights of Rs. 5 Lakhs (Lehman Brothers), the process resulted in the Batch of 2009 being placed in exclusive roles with the best companies in the industry, both from India and abroad. Lehman Brothers, J P Morgan Chase, Hay and Microsoft offered stipends of more than a lakh (for domestic offers), while Novartis, HUL, ABG, P&G, Transworld, Asian Paints and ICICI made foreign offers. HSBC, Ernst & Young, ABG, Edelweiss, Deloitte Consulting, IBM and Nokia were the largest recruiters this year with the highest number of accepted offers. Other premier recruiters include Carlyle, Accenture Business Consulting, KPMG, TAS, Yahoo!, etc.
XLRI makes Inroads into Finance & Economics
XLRI's core strength lies in its fundamentals of faculty and student quality. XLRI today boasts of a faculty size of twenty in the area of Finance and Economics, which is unrivalled across B-school campuses in India. This long-term vision of XLRI has produced excellent results in terms of the recruiters visiting XLRI such as Lehman Investment Banking, EightCapital Hedge Fund, Indea Capital, Lotus Asset Management, in addition to the premier traditional recruiters like J P Morgan Chase, The Carlyle Group, Edelweiss, Rabo Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Citi Bank, Standard Chartered, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and SBI Capital Markets. 27% of the students signed out with offers from the Finance sector.
Top Consults Prefer XLRI
XLRI strengthened its relationships with the Consulting Prima Donnas with 21% of the offers coming from KPMG Consulting, Ernst & Young Human Capital, Hay Group, Hewitt Associates, Mercer Consulting, Accenture Business Consulting, Deloitte Consulting and IBM Business Consulting. The consulting clique was further enriched by the esteemed additions of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Tishman Speyers International Consulting.
The Place to be for Marketing Professionals
XLRI's proven track record as an FMCG favourite was reinforced by the active participation of top organizations - Asian Paints, Britannia, Cadbury, Coke, Colgate Palmolive, GlaxoSmithKline, HUL, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, Marico, Nestle, P&G, Pepsi and Reckitt Benckiser. 37% of the students signed out with offers from FMCG / Manufacturing firms.

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Placements 2007

With CoolAvenues expanding the scope of its Annual Placements Survey to include FPM / Executive MBA / One-year MBA Programs as well, online coverage is going to be much more entensive and exciting... keep checking out this space for latest updates, as Indian B-schools go to placements.

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