More than 110 organisations participated in Summer Placements 2008 at IIM Lucknow.
Says IIM L, “This was one of the largest and most exciting recruitment exercises to be conducted across B-School campuses. Firms from across verticals demonstrated their confidence in the quality of students and reaffirmed their choice of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruiting partner. IIM Lucknow continued to attract the best organizations. The fact that a battery of firms was willing to forge new relationships with the institute in these troubled times stands testimony to the fact that there always is demand for quality managerial talent coming from the nation’s premier B-School.”
In the banking and financial sector, companies offered a wide spectrum of roles across functions to the students. More than 32% students chose the financial sector as their preferred vertical. The major I-Banking/ PE firms in this sector included Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Baring Private Equity Partners, O3 Capital, 2i Capital, Seedfund, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs. The long standing relationship with premier banks like Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, RBS Group, American Express, ICICI bank and Axis Bank was further strengthened.
IIM Lucknow re-asserted its standing as a premier Consulting campus with participation from consulting giants like McKinsey & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewitt Consulting, Frost & Sullivan and many other top consulting firms. Top general Management profiles from TAS and Aditya Birla Group further add to this impressive list.
Corporates such as HUL, P&G, Nokia, Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, GlaxoSmithKline, Alshaya, Bharti Group, ITC, Marico, Asian Paints, Dabur, Colgate Palmolive, Cadbury and Reckitt Benckiser recruited students in large numbers to spearhead their marketing initiatives.
IIM Lucknow further strengthened its relationship with regular recruiters such as L&T, RPG, Futures First, IBM, Cognizant, Wipro and TCS while fostering new relationships with firms like Merrill Lynch, 2i Capital, Microsoft, IMACS, Diageo, Seedfund, Emergent Ventures and many others.
Building over past trends, several IIM Lucknow students will be pursuing internships in locations like Singapore, London, Switzerland, United States and the Middle East. International locations were offered by McKinsey & Co., Aditya Birla Group, TAS, HUL, P&G, Cognizant, Diageo and Alshaya Group.
For the first time in its history, IIM Lucknow had a day dedicated for hosting entrepreneurial ventures. Based on strong student demand, this endeavor was IIM Lucknow’s initiative to celebrate the entrepreneurial talent present. The day saw participation from more than 20 of the entrepreneurial ventures across verticals. These included firms launched by several of IIM Lucknow’s own alumni. Students greeted these firms with an enthusiastic response and many chose to intern with these firms over other lucrative offers, informs IIM L.
