IIM-Lucknow achieves 100% final placement in 3 days

With over 160 firms participating, the institute managed to place all 446 students in record time

The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) today said it has achieved 100% final placement for its 30th batch of 446 students in a record time of just over three days.

The recruitment drive saw participation from over 160 domestic and international recruiters, a release by the institute said.

The highlight of the placement season was participation of esteemed firms like Alvarez & Marsal, BlackRock, Advisors, MasterCard and o3 Capital which marked the ascent of IIM-L as a preferred recruitment destination for marketing, finance and consulting roles in the country, it said.

The top four segments based on roles offered were sales and marketing (25%), finance (22%), consulting (21%) and business development including some extremely sought after and niche profiles in the finance domain.

The rest of the offers came from domains such as operations/supply chain, general management (7%), systems/IT (10%), market research, analytics and HR.

Some of the top recruiters across different sectors were Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Avendus, Flipkart, Hindustan Unilever, P&G, TAS and The Boston Consulting Group, the release said.

The first time recruiters included Avalon Consulting, BMW Group, Kotak Investments and Tata Sky among others while international profiles were offered by Equirus Capital and Olam International.