IIM Trichy

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy recently concluded its summer placements for the 2012-14 batch for the Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) programme. In all, 92 students, among the batch of 102, who registered for the placements, bagged internships. Marketing was the leading function with 43% hires for roles in this function. The corresponding figure last year stood at 36%, a gain of 7 percentage points this year. Hiring for Finance stooped down sharply as compared to last year with 20% of the batch hired for roles in this function. Last year, Finance was leading alongwith Sales & Marketing with 36% of the batch opting for roles in that function.

As per information provided by the institute, 10 students opted out as they wanted to seek opportunities outside the campus on their own and opted for roles in techno-business analytics, logistics management, agri product marketing, manufacturing systems management, digital marketing, professional sports team branding building, and core finance roles such as treasury and trading.

More than 50 companies had confirmed presence but only 39 participated due to the economic downturn, according to Dr. Godwin Tennyson, chairperson, placements, IIM Trichy. The offers made by all the companies were accepted.

The highest number of offers was made by Kellogg, IFMR Rural Finance, Transport Corporation of India Limited, ICICI Bank, Sterling and Wilson, Axis Bank, Datalogics, IDBI Federal and Innopark with atleast 3 offers each.

Function-wise drill-down

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In the marketing function, roles in sales, market research and advertising were offered among others. The function of finance saw RBI offering roles in Foreign Exchange Trading. ICICI Bank offered roles such as Corporate Banking and Wealth Management. Other profiles offered in this function included Project Appraisal, Business Advisory, Compliances and Commodity Trading among others. Transport Corporation of India Limited offered roles for Logistics and Supply Chain projects in the operations function.

Business Analytics and Business Process Consulting were some of the roles on offer in the IT/ITES function while consulting saw roles in Financial Consulting, New Product Strategy and Business Development being offered to the students. The HR function saw companies hiring for roles in Performance Management, Employee Engagement and Recruitment.

Sector-wise drill down

BFSI sector hired the maximum no. of students this year (44%). IT sector as the second largest gainer which hired 12% of the batch. Other sectors such as FMCG, Healthcare, Conglomerates, among others, got a small share of the pie.

Major recruiters in the BFSI sector included Citibank, ICICI Bank, RBI, Axis Bank, IDBI Federal and NCDEX. Ameex Technologies, Webenza, Datalogics, Redington and IBM were the prominent recruiters in the IT/ ITES sector. Dabur and Kellogg India were some of the companies which offered internships in the FMCG sector. Draft FCB Ulka and Zee Networks were some of the recruiters in the advertising and media sector.

Note: The placement report is based on claims made by the institute in its placement report and answers to our questions therafter. The institute has not informed us about following a known placement reporting standard or applying an external audit, so PaGaLGuY does not take responsibility for the accuracy of the claims.

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