It's a wrap on IIM-A summer placements: Accenture top recruiter with 19 offers

Firms were grouped into cohorts based on the profile offered, and groups of cohorts were invited to campus across different clusters. As in previous years, students were provided the flexibility of making '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.

In the placements, 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, among others.

Prominent recruiters in the investment banking and markets
space include 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 domain this year with Kedaara Capital, Multiples Equity, Temasek and True North participating, among others.

Among the Banking, Financial Services & Insurance recruiters,
American Express, Axis Bank, DBS Bank, FinIQ, the Reserve Bank of India and RBL Bank were some of the recruiters who extended offers. Sales and marketing roles were offered by the regular recruiters AB InBev, Airtel, HUL, Mondelez, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Star TV, and Wipro, among others.

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.

Asha Kaul, Chairperson of the Placement Committee said, “This healthy mix of old and new recruiters provided space to our students to
dream, for the first time, on four companies and finally select the one that matched their aptitude, skill set and competency. "

Further details about the placement process will be released in an audited report, as per the Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS), introduced by IIM-A in an effort to bring about greater transparency in B-school placements across the country. The IPRS report for ‘Summer Placements 2017-18’ will be released 6 months from the date of completion of the process, and the link to the report will be shared with all stakeholders, once released.