The winds of a buoyant economy have started blowing in XLRI, too. Around 30% of the B-School?s outgoing batch of 195 students has already received pre-placement offers.
Fifty-seven pre-placement offers have been made by corporates where the B-School students had done their summer internship in April-May 2007. The pre-placement figures for the 2006 and 2007 batches were 48 and 55, respectively.
XLRI has a batch size of 65 for its personnel management & industrial relations course and 130 for its business management course. ??The offers range from a variety of verticals across the corporate spectrum, including Unilever, Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young,?? said Akshay Sinha of XLRI?s External Linkages. The B-School is likely to witness more pre-placement offers in the coming days.
Lateral placements (placements of students with work experience) will be over by the end of this month. Usually, the main campus recruitment process for the batch takes place only in the first week of March.
The pre-placement offers this year range across a vary from strategy to consulting to investment banking; corporate branding to human capital and technology management to corporate finance. Names like JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Citibank, Reliance Capital and Axis Bank are the leading recruiters in the finance domain.
Among the firms confirming interest in the interns in consulting, human resources and general management have been the Hay Group, Ernst & Young, Hewitt, Mercer, TAS, Deloitte and the Aditya Birla Group.
Unilever, P&G, Nokia, Asian Paints, ITC, Cadbury and Nestle have been the leading FMCG and consumer durable majors that have made pre-placement offers. Some others like Microsoft, CTS, IBM and a host of systems majors have also extended offers . “The performance of our students is no surprise and justifies the recognition accorded (to XLRI) by industry, said Uday Damodaran, placement coordinator, XLRI.