From a brand new concept of choosing a ‘dream company’ to having over 30 firms visit for the first time, the summer placement season of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) for the PGP class of 2015-17 was this and more.
The placement season concluded on Tuesday and had over 150 companies hire students for a summer stint in roles such as consulting, investment banking, markets, corporate banking, sales and markets, business leadership, product management, operations, category management and general management.
More than 30 per cent of the students from the batch of 410 eligible students were roped in by the consulting sector, which included Bain & Company, Strategy&, AT Kearney, Roland Berger, Alvarez & Marsal, PWC Diamond, Capgemini, IBM Consulting, Cognizant Business Consulting and GEP Consulting.
The Boston Consulting Group made 22 offers, the highest ever made by it across Indian campuses. Accenture Management Consulting, with 16 offers, and Mckinsey & Co., with 12 offers, were also top recruiters this year, said a release. The ‘dream company’ concept saw Tata Administrative Services, Aditya Birla Group, P&G, ITC and Hindustan Unilever being chosen by the students as their dream companies. Many students also chose to go to sales and marketing functions, and were extended offers by major consumer goods and services firms. The e-commerce space also saw what was termed a “heightened interest” with Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Hopscotch, Uber, Myntra, Ola Cabs, Quikr, Infoedge, LinkmySport and Channelplay participating in the summer recruitment process.
