Companies are increasingly giving pre-placement offers (PPOs) to students of top B-schools based on their performance during summer internships. For the Batch 2017-19 numbers of PPO/PPI’s offered is almost double in compare to 2016-18. Pre-placement (PPO/PPI’s) offers usually go on till January 2019. Highest PPO (Converted through PPI) offered is INR 18 lpa. Many students got 18 lacs per annum PPO with Philips Lighting. The leading recruiters were Deloitte US, Tata Capital, Go Digit, HUL, NIVEA India Pvt. Ltd., Philips Lighting, Nestle, Hilti, Capgemini, United Biscuits and many more.
Human Capital Consulting, Consulting and Sales and Marketing is the leading sector with a flurry of PPO/PPI (pre-placement offers) with the job profile consulting in the areas of Strategic Sourcing, Category Management and Procurement Transformation, Organization Transformation & Talent, Business Development, Handling Distributor Channel and others.
“Final Placements this year were both faster and better says Prof. (Dr.) Rajneesh Chauhan,[/b] the Chairman Placements. 'Better was manifested in a higher median CTC, better quality of Companies and multiple jobs offers for students. The placement process of 2017-19 batch, which include 54% students as fresher’s, 35% students having work experience of more than 1 year,' he said.
For the batch 2016-18, total 106 companies participated in the placement process. The average CTC being offered to the students is higher than last year and should end up recording a jump up to 10.4 LPA and several students are being offered over Rs 18 lacs per annum and highest salary offered is INR 21 lacs per annum. Many students were having multiple job offers. Total PPO offered was 20.
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