IIMA final placement: Accenture top recruiter, 11 students to start their own ventures

Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat

The placement process for 375 students of the graduating batch of the Post Graduate Programme(PGP) in Management at IIM Ahmedabad has been successfully completed with the third and final cluster placement on 1st March 2015. More than 115 firms participated in the placement process in 2015 including the lateral process.

Recruiters in the consulting space included global strategy consulting and niche consulting firms: Accenture Strategy, Alvarez & Marsal, AT Kearney, Bain & Company, Deloitte, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Oliver Wyman, Roland Berger, Strategy&, and The Boston Consulting Group among others.

The Banking & Financial Services sector participation included Avendus Capital, City, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and Nomura amongst others.

This year IIMA also saw participation from PE/VC firms such as Matrix Partners and Apollo Global Management.

A large number of students took up roles in Sales and Marketing in various companies such as Asian Paints, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Mondelez International, Nestle, PepsiCo, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Shell, Vodafone and Wipro Consumer Care amongst others.

General Management and Leadership profiles were offered to students by Aditya Birla Group, Bharti Airtel, CK Birla Group, Lodha Group, Mahindra, Reliance ADAG and TAS amongst others.

The internet and E-Commerce space included recruiters such as Amazon, Flipklart, OlaCabs, Quikr, Snapdeal and Uber.

Students secured roles in technology sector firms such as Cognizant, Google, EdgeVerve, Microsoft and Samsung amongst others.

Recruiters in the pharma domain include Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and GlaxoSmithkline Pharma among others.

A number of first-time recruiters such as Hopscotch, Future Group and Practo amongst others participated in the placement process.

BrowserStack, a self funded, fast growing and young technology start-up operating in 130+ countries, also recruited for the first time from IIM Ahmedabad this year.

In terms of number of offers, Accenture Strategy was the top recruiter with selection of 21 students from campus.

In the strategy-consulting domain, apart from Accenture Strategy, McKinsey & Company and The Boston Consulting Group extended 10 each.

Bain & Company made 9 offers.

Among banking and financial service firms, Yes Bank made 10 offers.

Among global investment banks, Goldman Sachs made 5 offers.

In the consumer goods and service sector, Hindustan Unilever and Start TV India were the leading recruiters having extended 6 offers each.

In the general management sector, Bharti Airtel made 9 offers, Adity aBirla Group and Future Group made 8 offers each.

In the Internet and e-commerce and technology sector, Amazon made 13 offers and Samsung extended 10 offers.

Eleven students this year opted out of the placement process to start their own ventures. The start-ups are in various sectors like adventure tourism, data analytics, e-commerce, food processing among others. In line with its culture of foresting entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad offered a placement holiday to these students, wherein they will be allowed to participate in placements in one of the next two years in the event that their venture doesn’t work out.

About 50% of the batch was eligible for lateral placements, which provided students an opportunity to optimally leverage their work experience. Firms which participated in the laterals process included Aditya Birla Group, Alvarex & Marsal, Amazon, Flipkart, Google, Microsoft and Star TV India amongst others.

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