IIM-A wraps up placements for agri biz programme

While the campus saw regular recruiters like Rabobank, Tafe and Syngenta, among others visiting for recruitments, the placements attracted first time recruiters like Mondelez International, Escorts, Standard Chartered and Tata Rallis, among others as well.

With further details of the placements to be released after third party audit as per the Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS) within next six months, the institute stated in an official communique that in all 30 companies participated in the placement process for PGP-ABM batch comprising 41 students. Other recruiters for PGP-ABM included the likes of Godrej Agrovet, GSFC, Kirloskar Oil India Limited, Naga Industries, Gati-KWE, Stellapps, and Tierra Foods.

A variety of roles were offered across diverse domains including seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, inclusive banking, corporate banking, food & agribusiness research and advisory, logistics and supply chain management, platform development, plantations, commodity trading, agricultural machinery, rural banking, and consulting.

Meanwhile, three students opted out of the placement process this year to launch their own entrepreneurial venture.

The start-ups included ventures in education and retail sector. IIMA supports entrepreneurship by providing a two-year placement holiday to students who launch their own start-up ventures.

Recently, IIM-A had wrapped up the final placements process within three clusters for the 378 strong batch of post graduate programme (PGP), wherein it saw sectors like consulting and investment banks emerge as top recruiters across all clusters.

Among these, Accenture Strategy picked up the highest number of students at 18, followed by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) at 15, both from the consulting sectors. More than 125 firms participated in the 2014 placement process that began with cluster one on February 9.

Apart from Accenture and BCG, the other consulting recruiters included A.T. Kearney, Bain & Company, Booz and Company, EY, EXL, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Monitor Deloitte, Oliver Wyman, and TSMG, among others. On the other hand, the financial services sector witnessed participation from global investment banks and included Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS amongst others.