Ratnakar Bank and Tata Steel emerged has emerged as largest summer recruiters with 9 and 8 offers respectively at IIM Shillong.
A total of 61 companies made 174 internship offers to the students of 2017 batch at the Shillong campus this year. The highest stipend was pegged at ₹1.6 lakh, offered for a position in sales & marketing.
The average total stipend witnessed a significant jump of 25 per cent from the previous year.
Some of the prominent summer intern recruiters at the Shillong campus include Mahindra GMC, Aditya Birla Group, Nomura, HSBC, Cognizant Business Consulting, GSK Pharmaceuticals, Sapient Global Markets, TATA Steel, TATA Motors, ICICI Bank, IBM, Wipro, Hero MotoCorp, Tolaram Group, FCB Ulka, and RBL Bank.
Google, L'oreal, Dabur, OlaCabs, Amazon, Snapdeal, Fidelity Investments, Bajaj Allianz, and Teach for India hired interns from IIM Shillong for first time.
Sales & marketing emerged as the most sought after domain with 30 per cent of the internships offered in the domain. Around 22 per cent of the batch was offered profiles in finance. The year also witnessed a 100 per cent increase in the number of manufacturing/retail and FMCG companies visiting the campus.