Placement Report

The first batch of the Indian Institute of Management Shillong went for placements in the month of February & March. The batch of 63 students was placed in 32 companies with a total of 68 offers. More than 54 companies showed their interest in the placement process. In the first year of its operation, 5 international offers were made to the students.

Selection process was greatly aided by technology with 42% of the offers happening through Video Conferencing Technology that the employers seemed to prefer. This has been instrumental in enabling international placements. The highest international offer was 34 Lakhs with the domestic highest being 18 lakhs. The average salary (CTC) offered on campus was around 10 Lakhs.

International recruiters included Tolaram Group, 3i Infotech, Adani Group and Jumbo Electronics. In Finance, private banks and investment banks made the bulk of the offers. The range of profiles varied from Investment Banking, Asset Management, Equity Research, Project Advisory, Wealth Management, Capital Markets and the likes. HSBC and DE Shaw also offered interesting profiles to the students in these areas. Other recruiters in this sector were public sector banks and the Navaratna PSUs.

Operations and strategy profiles were in demand this year from the students with a total of 17 offers made. The major recruiters in this domain were Suzlon Energy in ERP consulting, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited in Operations, Essar Group in Global Leadership, Adani Group in Business Development, GATI in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. NTPC and Power Grid too made interesting profiles for the students in strategy. ONGC, Tata Motors, Lafarge, Voltas, UB Group also showed keen interest in recruiting.

Consulting firms like Deloitte, PWC and Frost and Sullivan made offers to the students for financial and business consulting. New profiles like innovation consulting were also on offer. The marketing profiles were oriented more towards the strategy and business research front with Zee Interactive, Biocon, Godfrey Philips India, Pfizer, IMRB and IOCL taking active interest.

The students interested in IT were offered profiles by Cognizant, HP, MakeMyTrip, MuSigma, 3i Infotech, Infosys, IBM Daksh and HCL among others. HR and General Management profiles were offered by the Escorts group, the Apeejay group and the Oberoi group.

The range of profiles offered by the corporate is a testimony to the trust reposed in IIM Shillong by them. Even after the entire batch had been placed, many companies across many sectors were willing to offer interesting profiles to the participants.