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The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its final placements for the 2010-2012 batches of its PGDM and PGDCM courses with 423 offers for a total effective batch of 345. Before the final placement process started, the students had already received 130 lateral and 95 pre-placement offers (PPOs), out of which 77 lateral and 77 PPOs had been accepted.
According to the placement team, a total of 83 companies came on campus during the final placement process that lasted four days. Of these, 74 companies made 198 offers for the 191 students that participated in the final placement week. Seven students opted-out of the placement process, the reason cited by IIM Calcutta being that they wanted to start up on their own or to join their family businesses.
| Total students | 352 |
| Total opted out | 7 |
| Effective batch for placements | 345 |
| Lateral offers made / Accepted | 130/77 |
| PPOs made / Accepted | 95/77 |
| Total companies that came on campus | 83 |
| Total companies that made offers | 74 |
| Total offers made (by 74 companies) | 198 |
| Total offers made (including lateral and PPOs) | 423 |
| International offers | 43 |
Function-wise breakup of offers
The largest recruiters in terms of the number of offers were Accenture Business Consulting, Airtel, AT Kearney, Bain and Co, Boston Consulting Group, IBM Consulting, ICICI, Mckinsey and Co, Microsoft and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Finance: While HDFC bank, YES bank and ICICI bank offered both treasury banking as well as trading roles, corporate banking roles were offered by American Express and Development Bank of Singapore. In addition, Goldman Sachs offered both trading as well as private banking roles to the students, with Bank of America Merrill Lynch offering trading and investment banking roles.
Other recruiters offering trading roles included Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC Global Markets, Nomura, Standard Chartered and Edelweiss. Some of the additional recruiters who offered finance roles were Deutsche bank, Ocwen Financial Corporation, JM Financial, RBI, CRISIL, UAE Exchange, American Express, IFMR Capital, Capital One, Shell, Jacob Ballas, Clearwater Capital and Cinepolis.
Consulting: Consultant and Senior consultant profiles in the business consulting sector were offered by Deloitte, Accenture management consulting, Capgemini, Boston Consulting Group and BMGI, PwC, BCG, Mckinsey, Bain, AT Kearney, Opera Solutions, Ernst & Young and KPMG. Wipro, Cognizant and IBM Consulting offered IT consulting roles with Aon Hewitt and Hay Group offering HR consulting roles to the students.
Sales & Marketing: Genpact offered one of the students the position of Assistant Vice President (Sales). The FMCG sector saw ITC make six offers. Other companies in the FMCG sector included P&G;, HUL, Kraft Cadbury, Nestle and Johnson & Johnson CP. Media companies such as HT Media and Times Group also came on campus offering sales and marketing roles. In addition, telecom giants including Airtel and Vodafone as well as recruiters from the pharmaceutical sector including Biocon, GSK Pharma, Novartis and Lenovo also came for recruitment in this function.
General Management: Some of the major recruiters who came on campus and offered leadership roles included Aditya Birla Group, Hinduja, Adani Group, Punj Lloyd, Bosch, Ericsson, TAS, Cairn as well as Mahindra and Mahindra. In addition, Ingersoll Rand offered a unique profile in its Entrepreneur Creation Program.
Microsoft was the largest laterals recruiter on campus with nine offers made across a variety of sectors including Microsoft IT, India Development Centre, and Microsoft Finance. Other noted recruiters who came to the institute include Google which offered profiles such as industry manager, account manager as well as account strategists. In addition, Internet and e-commerce companies such as Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Jabong, Zynga, Naaptol and Smile Group also came for recruitment. Amazon offered a variety of roles including Business development manager, Operations manager as well as positions in the Pathways and BOLD program.
Offering roles in its Global Sales team, Infosys made five international offers based out of its US and London offices. International offers were also made by a number of other companies including Zurich Financial Services, who recruited for their offices in both Zurich and New York. In addition, Bank of America Merill Lynch offered positions in its Hong Kong office while Capital One recruited for its office in Dallas (Texas). Microsoft offered jobs in its Redmond head office while Plinga, a German gaming company recruited for its Berlin office.
The batch of 2012 had 66% students with prior work experience. The minimum work experience required to be eligible for the lateral placement process was fixed at 10 months. This made 208 students out of the total batch of 352 eligible for the lateral process.