Major recruiters throng IIM-C campus for Summer Placement

Emimemt organisations such as financial services major Citibank and Merrill Lynch, FMCG giants Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Procter & Gamble featured as the top recruiters at the IIM Calcutta's Summer Placement programme.

There were 458 candidates who had opted for Summer Placement for the Class of 2020 and 100 per cent of them were recruited in a little over two days, an IIM-C statement said Monday.

More than 120 companies participating in the process.

Summer Internship is a mandatory part of curriculum of the flagship PGDM course at IIM Calcutta that allows students to get an exposure to various opportunities in corporate world before making a final career decision, the statement said.

The highest number of offers (26 per cent) came from banking and financial services domain with Citibank being the largest recruiter while others included Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs.

Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co, and Bain & Co fomed the consulting sector that came scouting for interns.

FMCG majors such as ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson, Dabur and Nestle also took part in the process, the statement said.

Technology firms such as Capgemini, Microsoft and Tata Consultancy Services and PSUs like Bharat Petroleum returned to the campus for this year's placement programme.

Other companies like Amazon, Uber, OLX, Swiggy and Cloudtal also came for hiring students from the class of 2020, the statement said.