International offers were made by companies such as AES Corporation, Bloomberg Singapore, First Gulf Bank, Sharaf Group and Keppel Land. In lateral placements companies such as Barclays Bank, Ocwen Financial and Sun Microsystems participated for the first time. IT majors including Capgemini, Cognizant Technology Services, Genpact, IBM Consulting, Infosys Technologies, TCS, and Wipro also recruited in the Lateral Process. Recruiters at JBIMS came from varied sectors: Consulting, Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Banking and Financial services, FMCGs and Consumer Durables, Teleocom and Real Estate.
The number of i-banks visiting campus doubled this year with 17% of the batch taking up this career path. This domain was represented by Citigroup recruiting for their Global Markets Division, Morgan Stanley Investment Bank, Avendus Capital, Enam Securities, ICICI Securities, JP Morgan Chase and SBI Capital. The Consulting sector saw participation from Consulting firms like McKinsey & Co., Accenture Business Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young (Business Advisory Services), PricewaterhouseCoopers participated in the process. HR consultant Mercer offered positions for their Human Capital Advisory Services. Brokerage firms such as ICICI Securities, SSKI, Principal AMC, Kotak Securities recruited for Equity Research and other roles, as India’s Capital Markets grow exponentially.
In Banking and Financial services, Barclays Bank PLC and Yes Bank participated for the first time, with Barclays making 7 offers. Roles on offer ranged from treasury to corporate banking to retail banking like ICICI Bank recruited for their Investment Banking, Treasury, Project Finance and Wealth management divisions. Recruiters from banking included HSBC, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, First Gulf Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank. The financial services domain was represented by GE Capital, CRISIL, Tata Capital, ASK Wealth Advisors, Credit Analysis and Research Ltd. and Dawnay Day AV.
FMCG and Consumer Durable domain saw students attracted by companies like HUL, P&G;, ITC, Nestle, Colgate Palmolive, PepsiCo, Dabur, Britannia, Heinz and L’Oreal, along with non-FMCG players like Castrol, Philips and Titan. In addition to the conventional sales and marketing profiles, they recruited students for their corporate finance division also.
Infrastructure, being one sector which is expected to boom in the near future, was represented by companies such as IDFC and Feedback Ventures offering profiles like Project Finance and Infrastructure Consulting. Profiles in Private Equity were offered by IDFC and HDFC Property Ventures. Real estate companies like Lodha Group, Keppel Land (Singapore), DLF and Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj represented the Real Estate sector on campus. Telecom saw four telecom players including Bharti group (Telecom and Retail) Vodafone, Virgin Mobile and Idea Cellular recruiting this year. Major organizations from other domains included Pfizer, Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd., Essar Group, JSW Steel and HT Media.
Also, Students bagged offers from companies like Nestle and L’Oreal on the basis of their performance in contests held by these companies. Anand Patil, a student from the Finance Batch, grabbed an offer from Yes Bank as a Senior Manager for their Investment Banking division. Arjun Khanna bagged buy-side equity research profile with Principal AMC on account of off-summer projects. Dhruv Sanghvi turned down a few offers including two pre-placement offers to join a Media Conglomerate proving that fat pay packages were secondary to the desire for achievement and job satisfaction.
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