Placement Release, IIM Calcutta – 5th March, 2011
Placements at IIM Calcutta continued its good run on the second and third days of the Final Placement session for the batch of 2011.
The second day saw 23 companies coming to campus to hire the talented bunch of students. FMCG behemoth Procter and Gamble made 11 offers including pre-placement offers, in their sales and marketing roles, including roles in Singapore. Dabur made an international New Business Development offer for their Dubai operations. Marketing roles were also offered by Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Nokia and Kraft Cadbury.
Tata Administrative Services (TAS) recruited 5 students for their business leadership program, including pre-placement offers. Consulting offers were also made by Feedback Ventures, Hewitt, EXL services.
As always, finance remained a stronghold in the placement session. Indian investment banks like ICICI Securities, India Infoline, Allegro hired students while international banks included HSBC, Standard Chartered, Development Bank of Singapore. ICICI also made 18 offers in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Treasury roles. Finance roles were also offered by Bloomberg.
Totally in excess of 370 offers were made at the time of going to press, including pre-placement offers and the laterals process. The process is expected to close very soon, as another batch of management graduates enters the corporate world.