Dr. Seema Sanghi Director FORE School of Management said, “We at FORE are proud to announce that majority of the Foreians received multiple offers and many companies had to return empty handed. The participating organisations also include many first time recruiters in addition to the regular recruiters at FORE.”
ICICI Bank and Infosys were the recruiters offering the most offers with 26 and 14 offers respectively. Recruiters included leading global banks such as Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered; finance majors like DE Shaw, Deloitte and JP Morgan; firms like Accenture and Ingram. First time recruiters included Hindustan Unilever, Adidas, VSNL, Tata Motors and Thomas Cook. Regular recruiters like Hero Honda, Asian Paints, Idea Cellular, IMRB, Bank of America and ICICI Prudential also recruited again this year. Some of the profiles offered were in the area of Equity Research, Product Management, Brand Management, Investment Banking.
Dr. Sanghi added details about the statistics of PGDM Placements for the batch of 2006-08:-
No of Companies |
Sectors/Industries | No. of Offers | Hike in package by percent |
47 | 13 | 200 | 35 percent higher than last year |
The average package jumped to more than 8 lacs per annum while the highest package was offered by the international recruiter Jumbo Group, Dubai at 26 lacs per annum. The highest domestic offer is 11 lacs. In keeping with past trends, engineers and non – engineers fared equally well. The laterals of the batch also performed well with their average package being more than 9 lacs per annum.