SPJIMR secures 100% placement to students of PGPM programme

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MBAUniverse.com News Desk |
July 26, 2016
SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) has managed to secure 100% job placement for its fourth batch of PGPM program.

According to SPJIMR, the 11-month PGPM programme comprised 56 participants who have more than 5 years of experience. The programme is uniquely designed to provide middle and upper level management talent to the industry. The HR managers find here potential managers who can be operative from day one of their joining.
 
While commenting on the job placement scenario, SPJIMR said, “Compared to previous years, the placement has drastically changed and it is not easy for even leading schools to get full placement.  Many leading companies who have been regular recruiters have either frozen or drastically reduced their intakes. In such scenario 36 companies participated in this placement with 78 offers for 54 participants. This indicates that the need of talented managers in the middle and upper level jobs continues to remain. Two participants who were on sabbatical rejoined their organizations.”
 
“After five years of work it was difficult for me to give up a decent salary job to join the college,” says one PGPM participant, “But I knew that at my age, and my profile, the normal career curve would be flat, whereas post this program I am sure not only to get a good jump in the package but the possibilities of my rapid growth will also open up.” Now having got more than 100% increase in his last drawn salary, he says that his decision has been justified.
 
PGPM student placement co-ordinator Deepak Chandrasekaran of the PGPM program says, “The participants of this batch had left well set careers both in India and abroad in their pursuit to move to middle and senior management roles. The well designed programme, the excellent support from SPJIMR and the industry and the strong profiles of participants have ensured we penetrated a wide range of roles like Associate Vice President, Business Development Manager, Industry Analyst, Senior Principal Information Architect, Executive Assistant to Director to name a few. The PGPM programme is indeed the programme of the future.”
 
“While we go to B schools for entry level jobs, so far for middle and upper level jobs we only had the choice of relying on market,” Says one HR manager. “But, with this program now we can get experienced professionals who have better internalized the management education in light of their earlier experience and are now equipped for higher positions,” he further says.
 
While the placement of its other two program PGDM and PGDSM-MIT is continuing in full swing, the dean of the Institute Dr. M. L. Shrikant is not mincing words about the long term vision of the institute, “SPJIMR, with a mission to influence the practice and value based growth, has been a pioneer in visualizing the gaps in the education needs in the Indian society and has always been in the forefront in meeting those demands where feasible. The PGPM program and its successful placements in spite of the challenging market conditions is yet another example of the vindication of this strategy.”