Even though the students were only a few months into their post graduation course, all of them were exposed to the industry as such because of the concept of field work which is unique only to TISS. Field work is a concept where a student is placed in an organization during a semester and the student is to learn about the organization, and if needed, do a project for the organization during the period by visiting the company twice a week. The various field work organizations where students were placed included Godrej Industries, Asian Paints, MTV, L & T, Crompton Greaves, L’Oreal, Philips, Centurian Bank, Mahindra Gesco, Wyeth, Monsanto, Siemens, Wartzilla, Godrej & Boyce, , Taj Group of Hotels, Pidilite, Rashtriya Chemicals Factory, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Steel etc.

Though summer internship is not mandatory as per the curriculum laid down by the university, the students were very conscious in their decision to opt for an organization during their summers from their value addition perspective.

Corporates were left vying with each other for the crème de la crème of the future HR managers. There were companies across sectors that came vying for the best in campus. The companies that came down to campus for the first time included the ‘big names’ Price Waterhouse Coopers, Tata Sons, Google, Morgan Stanley, Yahoo, Microsoft, Fidelity Investments among the many others. Companies like Johnson & Johnson, HLL, P&G;, Asian Paints, Marico, Cadbury’s, Coke & ITC represented the FMCG sector. Consulting sector were represented by Ernst & Young & Capegemini. The companies from IT sector were IBM, Honeywell, Dell Computers & Wipro. The who’s who of the BFSI sector namely, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Lehmann Bothers, Tata AIG & ICICI Bank also came down to pick the best. Other companies that made their presence in the placement battlefield included Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Tata Motors, L & T, ICICI Onesource. Close to 95% of the students were placed on Day 1, which was indeed a phenomenal achievement.
Parul Aurora who accepted the offer from HLL, says, “Having worked in a global consultancy firm for close two years, am sure that the summers stint at HLL would give me a first hand experience of how it is to work in a global FMCG.”

Kingshuk Das, a engineering graduate, remarks on accepting the offer from Tata Sons, “ The house of Tatas are second to none and doing a project in one of the world’s largest conglomerates is a dream come true”

Romit Choudary who was the taken up by Google, remarks, “As a software engineer, one always dreams to work for a techie company like Google. Now being in the other side of the table as an HR professional, am sure it should be equally challenging to do a project in there.

Saumya Gupta who opted for PriceWaterhouse Coopers says, “”I am short of words. I can just say that am very happy for having made it.”

Arun Mirchandani who took up the offer of HSBC, says, “It is very exciting to be recruited by HSBC for they are one of the established players in banking industry in the world. I am pretty sure that my internship would give me good insights into the international practices and global trends in HR and I see my stint as a tremendous starting point for a challenging and rewarding career in HR.”

TISS takes great pride in it in giving students companies from varied fields to choose from, thereby leaving maximum options open for the students, and with a great potential for peer-to-peer learning after the summers.

For an institution, which is respected in the industry to produce the best HR managers, it was yet another exhibition of the power of the TISS brand and the great summer placement figures are simply the icing on the cake.