Number of students placed

240 getting placed in less than 4 days

Number of Companies Participated

109

Number of Offers

317 offers to a batch of 120 Business Management and 120 Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (HR) students

Highest Domestic Salary

Rs 23 lakh p.a.

Average Domestic Salary

Rs 15.8 lakh p.a.

Median Domestic Salary

Rs 14.7 lakh p.a.

Pre Placement offers (PPOs)

An increase of 19.25% in the Pre Placement offers from last year

Lateral Placements

The number of Lateral offers doubled over last year with an average salary figure of Rs 16.5 lakh

First time Recruiters

KPMG for the first time opened its treasured Financial Risk Management role at XLRI for the class of 2011
Firms such as Google, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt ltd, BNP Paribas, ICICI Securities, India Infoline, Akzonobel, Amazon.com, Lodha Group, Medtronic, Glenmark Pharma, HPCL-Arcelor Mittal Energy Ltd and AC Nielsen recruited for several prized positions in their respective organizations.

Roles offered

Finance – Roles offered in Investment Banking, Treasury, Corporate Finance, Wholesale Banking, Commercial Banking, Retail Banking and Insurance.

Marketing – Roles offered in branding, marketing and sales

Consulting - Roles in Business Advisory, Strategy and Human Capital Advisory.

Placements for General Management Program (GMP)

The placements have also started for the General Management Program (GMP), a full-time flagship program of XLRI. Companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Cognizant Business Consulting, HP etc. have already visited the campus and have offered middle to senior level position to GMP students.

Key Recruiters across Sectors

Finance

ICICI Bank was the largest recruiter and with 21 offers.

Global finance majors such as Goldman Sachs, Nomura Holdings, BNP Paribas and Edelweiss offered roles in the areas of asset management, corporate investment banking and equity research. Financial institutions such as ICICI Securities, India Infoline, Citibank, Standard Chartered, ICICI, Axis Bank, DBS and YES Bank offered roles in the treasury and foreign exchange desks as well as in their corporate and retail banking functions. The offerings of domestic investment banks led by SBI Capital Markets generated a lot of interest among the students.

Corporate finance roles were offered by Hindustan Unilever, Cadbury, L&T and Reliance Industries Ltd among others.

Marketing

Offers made by FMCG majors such as Procter & Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, ITC, Asian Paints, Nestle, Cadbury, Marico, PepsiCo, Castrol and Biocon. The optimism in the macroeconomic trends was reflected in the enthusiastic participation from companies across sectors like Bharti Airtel, Lenovo, Cummins, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd and Akzonobel.

Consulting

The Boston Consulting Group, Mckinsey & Co. Accenture Business Consulting, Tata Strategic Management Group, Ernst & Young, Mercer Consulting, Hewitt Associates, KPMG, Deloitte Consulting, Cognizant Business Consulting, Capgemini & Wipro Consulting

General Management

TAS, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hinduja Group, Reliance Industries LTD, Lodha Group, Manipal Group, RPG Group and Murugappa group made offers in several middle management positions.

HR

Global Pharmaceuticals major - Novartis AG offered its prestigious HR Leadership Development Role at Basel, Switzerland exclusively to XLRI, making the highest international offer of US $120,000.

Entrepreneurship

XLRI’s commitment to nurturing and promoting Entrepreneurship continued this year through the sustenance of Deferred Placement for encouraging students to set up their own ventures. One student signed out with deferred placements and many others capitalized on the start-ups established as a part of Summer Projects.