SPJIMR Shines at Placement 2004
The “India Shining” feeling was evident at the SPJIMR campus during Placements 2004 where the last offer was made at 1.15 p.m. on Day One.
A Rush of 34 Pre Placement Offers (PPOs) immediately after the Autumn Projects ending in November 2003 from 16 companies, kick - started the placement process. More than 100 companies showed interest in participating in the placement process of 2004. Out of these, 68 companies made pre- placement presentations. Of these only 43 companies were required to place the eligible batch of 127 compared to 62 invited last year.
Nine companies, which had already given PPOs, returned for Final Placement and gave 30 more offers. Another 28 companies gave 64 offers out of which 54 were accepted. Some of the largest recruiters were Wipro Group (14), i2 Technologies (12), GE Group (9), IBM (eight), HCL (7), Asian Paints (7), Ernst & Young (5) and TCS (5).
Sector wise breakup:
Consulting and Administration
(5 organizations - 10 offers)
PwC (1), Accenture (2), TSMG (1), Ernst & Young (5), TAS (1)
Information Technology
(10 organizations - 54 offers)
i2 Technologies (12), Vcustomer (2), Infosys (3). Wipro Tech (12), IBM (eight), SISL (2), SAP India (2), CSCI (2), TCS (5), HCL Tech (6)
FMCG
(13 organizations - 26 offers)
Cadbury (2), P&G (2), Gillette (2), Wipro CC (2), Perfetti (2), Nestle (2), APPG (2), Dabur (1), Coke (2), Castrol (1), HLL (2), Asian Paints (5), Brittania (1)
Banking, Insurance and Financial Services
(8 organizations - 24 offers)
UTI AMC (4), GECIS (6), Kotak (1), AGS (2), SBI CAPS (4), UTI Bank (3), Citibank (3), HSBC (1)
Corporate and Operations
(4 organisations - 9 offers)
GEIOC (3), DHL (4), Torrent (1), BCCL-TOI (1)
Automotive and Engineering
(3 organizations - 4 offers)
Maruti (2), Tata Motors (1), TVS Motors (1)
For complete details log on to http://www.spjimr.org/placements/placements.asp
or
http://coolavenues.com/placements/20...imr_final.php3 
who went thru to the 2nd round) was asked why there was space left at the end of the essays, 
and spacing was less at the start- with insinuation that the essays were not of his own to boot (handwritings seemed different for different answers 
). His form was displayed as illustration (but it was there for all of us to see as well. 
) He explained that he tried out the online option first, where the space was less, so later...etc 
They were more of trying to get around to knowing u as an all-round person and see ur motivation for the course and whether the way u've filled ur form/ or the way u answer them is consistent with that. 
(we had an exceptionally qualified Miss World in our midst 
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