E-commerce steals the show from finance in IIM Lucknow summer placements

While, e-commerce job offers doubled, finance sector roles shrunk by 35%

With global online retail giants making India their next playfield, the premier Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) has reported finance being replaced by e-commerce as one of the most popular sectors in the current summer placements.

IIM-L has clocked 100 per cent summer placements for 455 students of the 34th batch (2018-20).

As per data, the top sectors based on roles offered were sales & marketing (28 per cent), consulting (22 per cent), e-commerce (19 per cent), finance (17 per cent), general management (11 per cent) and systems/IT (3 per cent). The rest of the offers emerged from domains such as