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recruited from the consumer durables
sector here at XLRI.
Future Group, Lodha Group recruited
students from the HR function.
Ola Cabs, Uber, Tata Steel, Reliance
Industries and Zensar offered operations
related roles including supply chain and
procurement.
General Management
General Management once again was
one of the preferred sectors on campus
with major industry players like Aditya
Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra,
Reliance Industries, RPG and TAS
offering a large number of roles in this
area.
Consulting
The consulting domain saw the active
participation of industry majors such as
Accenture Strategy, Capgemini Consult-
ing, Cognizant Business Consulting,
Deloitte, EY, Everest Group, Gallup,
KPMG, McKinsey and Company,
Peoples Business Group, Price Water-
house Coopers, The Boston Consult-
ing Group, and Vector Consulting and
Zensar. International roles were also
offered to students.
Technology
Key recruiters from technology and
e-commerce sector comprised Call
Health, Flipkart, Microsoft, Ola Cabs,
Paytm, Samsung, Tech Mahindra and
Wipro that offered roles in programme
management, sales and marketing, HR
and operations.
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largest
batch OF
xlri gets
placed
10 May 2016
Sector Performance
Placement
Report: In a
nutshell
Recruiters: 132
First-time recruiters: 36
Offers: 386
Batch Strength: 361
Pre-Placement Offers
PPOs: 102
Offers Accepted: 84
Big Guns
ICICI Bank: largest recruiter with
21 offers
Star TV: second highest number
of offers at 12
ITC: largest recruiter in the FMCG
space
XLRI successfully
placed its largest ever batch
of Business Management
and Human Resource
Management programmes in its final
placement process. The final recruit-
ment process saw participation from
132 recruiters, inclusive of 36 first time
recruiters, and 386 offers made to a
batch of 361 students.
Prof. Rajiv Misra, Chairperson,
Placement Office, commented, “XLRI
has completed yet another success-
ful placement session for its students.
This year’s placement season wit-
nessed a remarkable increase in both
the number of offers and recruiters
coupled with participation of quite a
few new recruiters. We are happy to
announce that there has been an across
the board increase in the salary pack-
age as well. We attribute the excellent
placements this year as an affirmation
by the industry of the high-standard of
management-centric education that we
strive to deliver to our students.”
Finance
The CRP was marked by a good pres-
ence of recruiters from the financial
sector. Recruiters from the BFSI space
included Citibank, Development Bank
of Singapore, Goldman Sachs, ICICI
Bank, Standard Chartered and Yes
Bank. ICICI Bank was the largest re-
cruiter with 21 offers. Kotak Mahindra
and Karvy visited for the first time and
offered wealth management roles.
Marketing /Operations and
Human Resources
The FMCG placements have been the
forte of XLRI over the years. This year
was no different and XLRI has again
re-established its strength as an FMCG
destination. Asian Paints, Colgate, Pal-
molive, GSK, CH, Heinz, HCCB, ITC,
Kellogg’s, Mondelez, Nestle, PepsiCo,
Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever among
others offered roles in sales, marketing
and HR functions. ITC was the largest
recruiter in the FMCG space.
The media sector too made its pres-
ence felt with Star TV rolling out the
second highest number of offers at 12,
and opening up sports marketing role.
Airtel, Ericsson, Vodafone and Telenor
represented the communications and
the networking space while Samsung
“We attribute the excellent
placements this year as an
affirmation by the indus-
try of the high-standard
of management-centric
education that we strive to
deliver to our students.”
Rajiv Misra
Chairperson, Placement Office