The final placements at XLRI Jamshedpur wrapped for its batch of 2016. The process saw participation from 132 recruiters and 386 offers were made for a batch of 361 students.
The median salary offered to the batch was ₹18.00 lakh while the average salary stood at ₹18.5 lakh. A total of 102 students were offered pre-placement offers, out of which 84 were accepted.
“This year’s placement season has witnessed a remarkable increase in both the number of offers and recruiters coupled with participation of quite a few new recruiters. There has been an across the board increase in the salary package as well,” said Rajiv Misra, Chairperson, Placement, XLRI – Xavier School of Management in a statement.
ICICI Bank was the largest recruiter in the BFSI domain with 21 offers. Some of the recruiters from the BFSI space included Citibank, Development Bank of Singapore, Goldman Sachs, ICICI Bank, Standard Chartered and Yes Bank.
Asian Paints, Colgate Palmolive, GSK CH, Heinz, HCCB, ITC, Kellogg’s, Mondelez, Nestle, PepsiCo, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever among others offered roles in sales and marketing and HR functions. ITC was the largest recruiter in the FMCG space.
Star TV rolled out the second highest number of offers at 12, opening up sports marketing role. Airtel, Ericsson, Vodafone and Telenor represented the communications and networking space while Samsung recruited from the consumer durables sector.
Ola Cabs, Uber, Tata Steel, Reliance Industries and Zensar offered operations related roles including supply chain and procurement.
General Management roles were offered by Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, RPG and TAS.
Consulting domain saw participation of Accenture Strategy, Capgemini Consulting, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, EY, Everest Group, Gallup, KPMG, and McKinsey and Company etc.