IIM Calcutta concludes final placement

More than 500 offers have been made to 438 students in record 2.5 days

Achhe din has arrived for IIM Calcutta. The premier B school completed its final placement for the graduating batch of 2015 in a record 2.5 days with more than 500 offers being made to 438 students. There were as many as 134 pre-placement offers before the start of the final placements based on their performance during the summer internships.

The lateral placement season for candidates with more than 22 months of work experience saw a total of 143 offers. With 18 offers, IT giant, Accenture was the largest recruiter this year.

This year’s placement saw heavy recruitment from the finance sector with more than 100 offers from finance companies. Prominent recruiters included Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Citibank.

The e-commerce space saw heightened interest with 47 offers from e-commerce giants like  Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart. Web-based start-ups like Ola cabs, GroupOn, Quikr, Urban Ladder  were also prominent recruiters, IIM Calcutta said. New recruiters from the sector included Germany-based Rocket Internet  and Nokia Networks Finland. 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 P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Kelloggs, ITC, Philips etc. Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Mondelez, Dabur.

Major conglomerates like Tata Administrative Services (TAS), Aditya Birla Group (ABG), CK Birla Group, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Essar, Lodha Group, Wipro , Airtel hired for their leadership and general management roles.