IIM-Ahmedabad to change campus placement process

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is organising a conclave of recruiters in Mumbai tomorrow to finalise the change in the campus placement process, ahead of the final placements session this year.

IIM-A had decided to change the campus placement process to suit the recruiters, Saral Mukherjee, IIM-A’s placement committee head, said.

“We have kept a meeting with the top recruiters in Mumbai tomorrow and would know their views on campus placement process,” Mukherjee added.

“We shall be deciding the change in campus placement process by the end of February or beginning of March, after the conclave of recruiters being organised by IIM-A in Mumbai tomorrow,” IIM-A Director Samir Barua said.

A change in ‘Slot Zero’ duration, the prime slot of placement session at IIM-A, was likely to be made after feedback from recruiters, official sources said.

The idea was to provide more time for interaction between recruiters and students so that they could discuss the roles on offer in length, they added.

“Our objective is to ensure all the stakeholders in the process of campus recruitment are familiar with the proposed changes, and recruiters can be made co-creators of this new design,” Mukherjee said.

The placement committee had been constantly in dialogue with recruiters in the last year and now we would give final touches to the new design, based on the feedback from them, he added.

Usually the placement process at IIM-A is a five-day affair. However, the placement process, which started from February 25 in 2009, continued for nine days due to the effect of the global economic slowdown.

The slowdown had a negative impact on IIM-A placements in 2009, as the average salaries offered to IIM-A students declined by 25 per cent, compared to the offers coming their way in 2008, sources said.