IIM Kozhikode Final Placements 2008

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IIMK’s Tenth Batch Signs off in Style with Record-Shattering Placements Season

IIM Kozhikode, the country’s fastest-growing premier business school witnessed its best ever placements season, with the Class of 2008 scripting an unprecedented success story at Final Placements 2008.

“Building on the spectacular success of the Lateral Placements Program, the most powerful theme at Final Placements 2008 was recruiter satisfaction with the quality of talent at IIMK – a phenomenon which led more firms to make more offers across diverse profiles” says Dr. Kulbhushan Balooni, the Chairperson-Placements at IIMK. Several recruiters made their largest number of offers at IIMK. The numbers that the campus placement season recorded tell their story more compellingly than anything else.

Placements culminated with the Class of 2008 achieving an Average Salary of Rs 14.83 lac per annum. The highest Final Placements domestic salary shot up by 28% to Rs 29 lac per annum. The highest international salary, meanwhile, recorded a phenomenal 60% jump, capping at USD 175,000 per annum by an Oil & Gas conglomerate. 105 premier recruiters from around the globe participated at Final Placements 2008, with 45 initiating a recruiting relationship with IIMK this year. 178 students participating at Final Placements 2008 were successful in bagging no less than 402 jobs during placements season, shattering all past records.

As a testament to IIMK’s increasing global footprint, a total of 23 international offers were made on campus, with plum roles based out of the US, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, & South-East Asia.

While there is no doubt that the numbers are impressive by all standards, the success of Final Placements 2008 lay in the underlying substance that added a far richer and far more satisfying hue to the sense of achievement at the end of placements season. Keeping in mind long term career growth prospects, close to 20% of the batch elected to accept slightly lesser paying roles out of the multiple offers available to them, choosing role over pay. 90% of the batch signed out with offers well in excess of Rs 10 lac and above.

In line with the trends observed throughout the Laterals Placements Program, the roles and profiles on offer during Final Placements 2008 continued to demonstrate a perfect balance across verticals.

International Recruiters

International placements touched new heights with Arthur D Little, Dresdner Kleinwort, KPMG, Microsoft, Olam International, Oliver Wyman, OCBC Bank, & Reuters participating in placements for the first time, with global roles across a diverse set of geographies up for grabs.

Consulting

IIMK strengthened its equity as a destination of choice for consulting firms with top consulting firms such as McKinsey & Co., Accenture Business Consulting, Arthur D. Little, Oliver Wyman, Stern Stewart & Co., Deloitte & Touche, E&Y, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers participating in Placements 2008. Accenture Business Consulting made the highest number of offers across campuses at IIMK.

'Exceptional group of people', 'Very diverse backgrounds', 'The brightest one can expect to see within India' - S. Thiagarajan, India Campus Recruiting Lead at Accenture Business Consulting.

Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers strengthened their relationship with IIMK, recruiting for 4 divisions each. Accenture HP, GrowTalent and Hewitt Associates recruited for HR consulting from IIMK for the first time. 25% of the Class of 2008 accepted offers in consulting. In recognition of the diversity of experience in the batch, roles ranged from Associate to Senior Consultant positions at these firms.

Finance

The Banking and Financial Services sector remained a strong favorite among students and saw a significant jump in activity this year with 36% of the batch being offered plum roles at top corporations. Investment Banking and Private Equity were the top choice for students looking for a career in finance. AIG PE, Deutsche Bank, Edelweiss Capital, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers, o3 Capital, Reliance Capital, & Reliance Venture Fund were some of the recruiters who made offers which were snapped up by the students in this space.

Diverse banking profiles were offered by the leading MNC banks such as ABN AMRO, American Express, Bank of America, Barclays Plc, Citibank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered. Bank of America PAG recruited exclusively from IIMK. The India growth story was well represented with ICICI, Kotak, SEBI, and Yes Bank making a large number of offers. GE Commercial Finance and ICRA recruited for credit risk management. Roles on offer this year included Asset Management, Corporate Finance, Corporate Banking, Credit Risk Management, Derivatives Structuring, Hedge Fund Management, Private Equity, and Treasury.

Marketing

Marketing continued to perform strongly, with no less than 22% of the Class of 2008 bagging top drawer marketing profiles. Students received offers from HUL, Nestle, Asian Paints, Britannia, Castrol, Colgate-Palmolive, Dabur, Himalaya, ITC, Marico, NIIT, Raymond, & Reckitt Benckiser amongst others. Media and Pharma found special favor among the students with recruiters such as DRL, Johnson & Johnson, NDTV, Pfizer, SET, & Times Group participating in Placements 2008.

IT/ITES

Google continued its relationship with IIMK by offering Product Manager and Sales roles. Global telecom majors such as Aricent and Verizon recruited for the first time from IIMK making a large number of offers. Infosys showed its faith in the Systems talent at IIMK by making no less than 4 offers for their much sought after Global Engagement Manager role. The Institute also continued to strengthen ties with traditional recruiters such as Cognizant, Exl, Genpact, HCL, Indus Valley Partners, Satyam, TCS, and Wipro. 9% of the batch accepted offers in the IT/ITES domain. Profiles on offer in this space included Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Product Manager, and Program Manager, amongst others.

Others

The sunrise retail sector was well represented with Bharti, Essar, Raymond, Reliance and RPG recruiting a large number of students for their retail lines. Operations, HR and General Management accounted for 8% of the roles that were accepted at Final Placements 2008.

The sheer number and diversity of roles on offer during Final Placements 2008 and the number of participating recruiters signal IIMK’s emergence as a rich training ground that moulds tomorrow’s business leaders, and a preferred hunting ground for industry.

Consistently challenging itself to break new frontiers and push the envelope further, IIMK is truly redefining the moniker – the Next Generation IIM.

[yourmunna]

Can U Plz Let Me Know Who Are The Recruiters Have Given Hghest Domestic Salay & Highest International Salary.

[MavericK]

Hi guys,
Keep this thread for IIMK placement details only.

For that ongoing tussle, refer this thread
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/b-scho...rand-wars.html

Thanks