The summer placement process for the Class of 2019 of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management at IIM Ahmedabad has been completed in three clusters with students being placed across more than 15 sectors and functions of their choice.
Firms were grouped into cohorts based on the profile offered, and groups of cohorts were invited to campus across different clusters. Students were provided the opportunity to make “dream” applications to firms of their choice in a subsequent cluster even with an offer in hand. There were more than 120 students that made dream applications this year. This gave students the flexibility and choice to build careers in sectors of their preference.
The students also had the opportunity to work under the mentorship of Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM-A, on their entrepreneurial ideas. Seven students opted out of the placement process to work on their own ventures, under the guidance and mentorship of CIIE.
Sales, marketing and more
Recruiters in the management consulting cohort included Accenture Strategy, AT Kearney, Bain & Co., Deloitte USI, McKinsey & Co., Monitor Deloitte, Strategy& and The Boston Consulting Group.
Recruiters from banking and markets space included Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.
There was active participation in the PE and VC domains this year with Kedaara Capital, Multiples Equity, Temasek and True North participating. Among the banking, financial services and insurance recruiters, American Express, Axis Bank, DBS Bank, FinIQ, the Reserve Bank of India and RBL Bank were some of the top recruiters.
Sales and marketing roles were offered by the regular recruiters such as AB InBev, Airtel, HUL, Mondelez, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Star TV, and Wipro.
The general management cohort saw participation from the Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, the RPG Group and Tata Administrative Services, among others. Amazon and Flipkart were the major e-commerce recruiters whereas Microsoft and Uber were the key recruiters in the consumer tech cohort. The Government of Telangana was the prominent recruiter in the government enterprises cohort.
Top players
Accenture Strategy was the top recruiter for the Summer 2017 process with 19 offers. Among the global banks, Citibank made five offers. FinIQ was the top recruiter in the BFSI cohort with 10 offers. AB InBev recruited nine students and was the highest recruiter in the consumer goods cohort, while the RPG Group was the top recruiter in the general management cohort with 14 offers. Amazon was the highest recruiter in the retail B2B space, with 12 offers, while Microsoft was the leading recruiter in the consumer tech cohort with five offers. The Government of Telangana, which hired for the industry and commerce and ITE&C departments, made five offers.
Asha Kaul, Chairperson of the Placement Committee, said, “And once again the students at IIM-A proved their mettle in the summer placements, which was held between November 4-11.”