The Higher Entry Placement Process (HEPP), which facilitates lateral placements at IIM Lucknow, was held from January through March 2009. Ernst & Young (Middle East), Barings Private Equity Partners PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, Wipro Consulting, Deloitte, Citibank, Aditya Birla Group, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant and Larsen & Toubro were among the major recruiters that participated in HEPP 2009. A total of 48 students bagged lateral job offers.

Almost 31 pc of the offers were made in the marketing domain in addition to about 40 pc of offers coming from the finance domain. About 16 pc of the batch accepted consulting offers while the rest took up offers from HR (5 pc), General Management (4 pc), Operations (2 pc) and Systems (2 pc) domain.

Regular recruiters that participated in the process include like McKinsey & Co, The Boston Consulting Group, Proctor & Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Limited, TAS, HSBC, Axis Bank, ICICI Group, Deutsche Bank, American Express, Frost & Sullivan, Asian Paints, Alshaya, Cadbury, Johnson & Johnson , GlaxoSmithKline and Reckitt Benckiser. First-time recruiters include Jaypee Capital, Siva Ventures, Laoreal, Tholons Consulting, Virgin Mobile, Religare Securities, Darashaw & Co, Allegro Advisors, Eli-Lily, Jindal Steel, Kellogg, Maersk and Bharti Telesoft.

IIM Lucknow also hosted around 14 PSUs which made 65 offers. PSUs include Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, ONGC, SIDBI, BHEL, NTPC, SAIL, GAIL and Coal India. The students belonging to the Agri-Business stream received offers from firms like ITC, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Agrotech Foods with DCM Shriram offering international locations.