Final placements concluded at IIM-A

Compiled by Ipsita Sarkar Gupta | shiksha.com

IIM Ahmedabad (PGP) Final Placements 2012-2013

1. Number of offers and participating companies: About 130 companies participated in the placement process in 2013 including the laterals process.

2. Placement process: The placement was conducted in two stages – the first was laterals process where firms interviewed students with work experience and offered them mid-level managerial positions. Second stage was the final placement process, where firms were grouped into cohorts based on the profile offered and invited to campus in different clusters.

3. Laterals process recruiters: Firms which participated in the laterals process include Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Deloitte, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Thomson Reuters. 50% of the batch qualified for lateral placements.

4. Placement Summary

Candidates seeking placements	373
Students opting out of placements through institute	13
Total offers made	360
International offers	15
Total Pre-placement offers/accepted	106/83
Highest package offered	Domestic: Rs 37 lpa International: $ 150,000 pa
Median Salary offered	Domestic: Rs 16.8 lpa International: $ 46,243 pa
Mean Salary offered	Domestic: Rs 17.65 lpa International: $ 60,800 pa

 5. Top Recruiters:  Boston Consulting Group was the top recruiter with 15 offers. This was followed by consulting giants Accenture making 13 offers, McKinsey & Company and Capgemini with 10 offers each while Bain & Company selected 9 students.

Among global investment banks, Goldman Sachs was the largest recruiter selecting 7 students selecting student for roles in financial markets as well as quantitative strategy. In the consumer goods and services sector, Airtel was the lead recruiter with 11 offers for roles in marketing and finance, both in India and in international locations. Amazon recruited 7 students for roles in business development and operations.

 6. Entrepreneurship: Five students opted out of the placement process to start their own ventures which include a professional network for photographers, an online sampling and market research portal and an e-commerce venture for project equipment.

7. Sectoral Overview

Sectors	Companies
Banking and Finance	Global investment banks include Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered; Other financial institutions include Axis Bank, DBS, HDFC, Kotak, JM Financial and Yes Bank
Consulting Companies	Global strategy consulting firms include Accenture, AT Kearney, Bain & Company, Booz and Company, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Feedback Ventures, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Monitor Group, Oliver Wyman, Opera Solutions, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, TSMG and Vector Consulting
Sales & Marketing	Airtel, Asian Paints, HUL, ITC, Kraft, L’Oreal, Mars, Nestle, P&G, Pepsi and Reckitt Benckiser
General Management & Leadership	Aditya Birla Group, Cipla, General Electric, Ingersoll Rand, Mahindra, Reliance, RPG Group, TAS, Thomson Reuters
IT & ITES/ E-commerce	Cognizant, Google, Hewlett Packard, HCL, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Amazon