Bengaluru, November 11, 2016: The Summer Placement season for the PGP Class of 2016-18 of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) witnessed participation from the top recruiters across all sectors with renewed vigor, and was completed between November 7 and November 10, 2016. IIM Bangalore is also simultaneously hosting the summer recruitment process for IIM Visakhapatnam PGP Class of 2016-18 with 60% of applicants already placed. Like last year, the IIM Bangalore Placement Committee was involved in the mentorship of IIM Visakhapatnam students in the run-up to the placement process.
Another striking feature of the process was that more than 30 firms visited IIMB for hiring for the first time. Some of these included Arthur D. Little, BayCurrent Consulting, Auctus Advisors, Gates Foundation, United Breweries, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages, NRI Consulting, Danaher, RPG Group, MasterCard Advisors, Visa, Mytrah Energy, Renew Power, Biocon, Next Education, Medtronics, GroupM, Wadi.com, Treebo Hotels, PharmEasy, CATKing, Rakshak Foundation and Zimmer.
IIMB played host to most big international banks such as Barclays, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Development Bank of Singapore and Standard Chartered on the first day of the Summer Placements. Private Equity/Venture Capital roles were offered to the students by Blackstone, Temasek Holdings, IDG Ventures and Brand Capital. BNY Mellon and Arpwood Capital were among the first-time recruiters in this domain. A host of Indian banks and financial institutions such as Avendus Capital, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and AVIVA also made offers during the placement process.
In the Management Consulting space, Accenture Strategy was the largest recruiter with 20 offers. The Boston Consulting Group with 15 offers, A.T. Kearney with 13 offers, McKinsey & Co. with 10 offers, Bain & Company with 8 offers and Strategy& with 7 offers were the other major recruiters this year. More than 30% of the batch received offers in the Management Consulting sector, which also included reputed names like Deloitte, Roland Berger, Alvarez & Marsal, PwC Diamond Consulting, GEP, Hay Group, Synergy Consulting and Feedback Infra Consulting.
Conglomerates such as Aditya Birla Group, Tata Administrative Services (TAS), C.K. Birla, Mahindra & Mahindra, Wipro Global, Reliance Industries Limited, General Electric recruited in significant numbers for leadership and general management roles. Aditya Birla Group with 9 offers was the highest recruiter in this space.
Many students also chose to go to Sales and Marketing functions, and were extended offers by major consumer goods and services firms. Major recruiters in this category were Procter & Gamble with 11 offers, Hindustan Unilever Limited (7), Johnson & Johnson (7), Mondelez (6), Asian Paints (5). The other recruiters in this space included Phillips, Coca Cola, ITC, Times Group and Wipro Consumer Care. Telecom majors Bharti Airtel made 11 offers and Vodafone made 3 offers. The major retail firm from Middle East - M.H. Alshaya - also recruited this year.
Recruitment in the technology space was led by Microsoft which extended 7 offers. The other recruiters included Microland, Sutherland Global, Infoedge, Zynga, Visa, Play Games and Directi. In the IT consulting domain, prominent recruiters like Cognizant Business Consulting, IBM and Capgemini visited the campus.
The eCommerce space also saw interest with Amazon making 20 offers. The other recruiters included Cloudtail (2) and Shopclues (1).
Commenting on the occasion, Professor Ganesh Prabhu, Chairperson, Career Development Services, IIM Bangalore said, "The absence of major eCommerce recruiters did not have an impact on the Summer Placement Process due to the renewed interest from FMCG companies."
Krishna M, Placement Representative, said, “IIMB has continued to be the preferred campus for Management Consulting firms with most of them making unprecedented number of offers. Recruitment by PE/VC and Social Sector firms added to the quality and variety of offers rolled out to the students."
Media Contacts:
Sapna Agarwal
Head - Career Development Services
Phone: +91 80 2699 3357/3301
E-mail: cds@iimb.ernet.in
Kavitha Kumar
Head - Communications
M: +91 98 45 201011
E-mail: kavitha.kumar@iimb.ernet.in
Krishna M
IIMB Placement Committee
E-mail: krishna.m15@iimb.ernet.in
Bengaluru, November 11, 2016: The Summer Placement season for the PGP Class of 2016-18 of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) witnessed participation from the top recruiters across all sectors with renewed vigor, and was completed between November 7 and November 10, 2016. IIM Bangalore is also simultaneously hosting the summer recruitment process for IIM Visakhapatnam PGP Class of 2016-18 with 60% of applicants already placed. Like last year, the IIM Bangalore Placement Committee was involved in the mentorship of IIM Visakhapatnam students in the run-up to the placement process.
Another striking feature of the process was that more than 30 firms visited IIMB for hiring for the first time. Some of these included Arthur D. Little, BayCurrent Consulting, Auctus Advisors, Gates Foundation, United Breweries, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages, NRI Consulting, Danaher, RPG Group, MasterCard Advisors, Visa, Mytrah Energy, Renew Power, Biocon, Next Education, Medtronics, GroupM, Wadi.com, Treebo Hotels, PharmEasy, CATKing, Rakshak Foundation and Zimmer.
IIMB played host to most big international banks such as Barclays, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Development Bank of Singapore and Standard Chartered on the first day of the Summer Placements. Private Equity/Venture Capital roles were offered to the students by Blackstone, Temasek Holdings, IDG Ventures and Brand Capital. BNY Mellon and Arpwood Capital were among the first-time recruiters in this domain. A host of Indian banks and financial institutions such as Avendus Capital, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and AVIVA also made offers during the placement process.
In the Management Consulting space, Accenture Strategy was the largest recruiter with 20 offers. The Boston Consulting Group with 15 offers, A.T. Kearney with 13 offers, McKinsey & Co. with 10 offers, Bain & Company with 8 offers and Strategy& with 7 offers were the other major recruiters this year. More than 30% of the batch received offers in the Management Consulting sector, which also included reputed names like Deloitte, Roland Berger, Alvarez & Marsal, PwC Diamond Consulting, GEP, Hay Group, Synergy Consulting and Feedback Infra Consulting.
Conglomerates such as Aditya Birla Group, Tata Administrative Services (TAS), C.K. Birla, Mahindra & Mahindra, Wipro Global, Reliance Industries Limited, General Electric recruited in significant numbers for leadership and general management roles. Aditya Birla Group with 9 offers was the highest recruiter in this space.
Many students also chose to go to Sales and Marketing functions, and were extended offers by major consumer goods and services firms. Major recruiters in this category were Procter & Gamble with 11 offers, Hindustan Unilever Limited (7), Johnson & Johnson (7), Mondelez (6), Asian Paints (5). The other recruiters in this space included Phillips, Coca Cola, ITC, Times Group and Wipro Consumer Care. Telecom majors Bharti Airtel made 11 offers and Vodafone made 3 offers. The major retail firm from Middle East - M.H. Alshaya - also recruited this year.
Recruitment in the technology space was led by Microsoft which extended 7 offers. The other recruiters included Microland, Sutherland Global, Infoedge, Zynga, Visa, Play Games and Directi. In the IT consulting domain, prominent recruiters like Cognizant Business Consulting, IBM and Capgemini visited the campus.
The eCommerce space also saw interest with Amazon making 20 offers. The other recruiters included Cloudtail (2) and Shopclues (1).
Commenting on the occasion, Professor Ganesh Prabhu, Chairperson, Career Development Services, IIM Bangalore said, "The absence of major eCommerce recruiters did not have an impact on the Summer Placement Process due to the renewed interest from FMCG companies."
Krishna M, Placement Representative, said, “IIMB has continued to be the preferred campus for Management Consulting firms with most of them making unprecedented number of offers. Recruitment by PE/VC and Social Sector firms added to the quality and variety of offers rolled out to the students."
Media Contacts:
Sapna Agarwal
Head - Career Development Services
Phone: +91 80 2699 3357/3301
E-mail: cds@iimb.ernet.in
Kavitha Kumar
Head - Communications
M: +91 98 45 201011
E-mail: kavitha.kumar@iimb.ernet.in
Krishna M
IIMB Placement Committee
E-mail: krishna.m15@iimb.ernet.in