30 pc of the total offers came from the financial sector in functions like Investment Banking, Treasury, Corporate Finance, Commercial Banking and Insurance. The domestic investment banks were represented by Centrum and SBI Capital. Banks such as Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, ICICI, Axis Bank and Bank of Baroda offered roles in their treasury & foreign exchange desks as well as their corporate and retail banking functions. Securities & Exchange Board of India recruited from XLRI for the first time while roles in trading were offered by Futures First. The insurance sector recruited in product development and distribution functions. Firms such as Bharti AXA, HDFC Ergo, ICICI Lombard and ICICI Prudential offered product structuring roles to students. Corporate finance roles were offered by the likes of Pepsi, L&T;, Tata Steel among others.
Marketing
Marketing firms recruited in branding, and sales functions with 32 pc of the students accepting the offers made, a nine pc increase in acceptances from last year. FMCG majors like Procter & Gamble, Hindustan Unilever, Nokia, Johnson & Johnson, ITC, Pepsi, Amul, Asian Paints and Reckitt & Benckiser offered sales and marketing profiles to students this year. First time recruiters at the campus include LaOreal, Titan, Castrol and telecom majors like Bharti Airtel & Virgin Mobile.
Consulting
McKinsey & Co., Accenture Business Consulting, Tata Strategic Management Group, Ernst & Young, iCRM, Mercer Consulting, Hewitt Associates, Deloitte Consulting & Cognizant Business Consulting participated in recruitments for Business Advisory and Human Capital Advisory functions offering roles in India and South East Asia. Eight pc of the batch opted for consulting domain.
Human Resources
Placements in Human Resources were held for domains like Consulting, FMCG, and Finance sector for International Banks and Group Companies. Pharmaceuticals major, Novartis offered HR Leadership Role at Basel, Switzerland exclusively to XLRI, making the highest international offer of $110000.
PSUas
Public Sector Units (PSUs) participating in the placements ranged from financial institutions like SBI Capital, Bank of Baroda, Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to energy players like GAIL, BPCL, ONGC & Coal India Ltd. BHEL. The offers extended by PSUas found acceptances from among 10 pc of the batch.
Domestic Leadership Cadres
TAS, the talent pool for the House of Tataas continued its relationship with the institute and the Aditya Birla Group offered their LEAP and LEAD program. The Hinduja Group, Murugappa Group and the Manipal Group recruited students for fast track job opportunities.
Entrepreneurship
With the introduction of deferred placements for students starting out on their own, XLRI saw the launch of three startups. Also, one student signed out with deferred placements.