Update: The institute informed PaGaLGuY today i.e March 26, 2014 that ITC was the largest recruiter with 12 offers. The article has been updated to reflect the change.
XLRI- Xavier School of management recently concluded its final placements for the HR and BM batch of 2012-14. Among the total pool of 245 students (124-BM, 121-HR), 4 students opted out for family business and entrepreneurial ventures. According to information provided by the institute, 114 companies confirmed presence out of which 103 companies participated in the placement process. A total of 90 companies made offers to the students. Two students also bagged international roles.
ITC (12 offers), ICICI Bank (10 offers), and Axis Bank (8 offers) were the leading recruiters this year. In the BM batch, Sales & Marketing was the leading function with 31.15% of the batch being hired for roles. Finance came a close second with 30.33% of the batch being hired for these roles. According to information provided to PaGaLGuY, the median salary of the batch was over 16.25 lakhs per annum.
Function-Wise Drill Down*:
*Since HRM is a specialized course, a function-wise drill down is not provided.
Finance: Recruiters from this domain included Aviva, Axis Bank, Bharati Axa, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Creador, CRISIL, Development Bank of Singapore, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, HSBC, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, ING Vysya Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Nomura, Standard Chartered, UBS and Yes Bank. HDFC Bank offered roles in its Treasury department. Corporate Banking roles were offered by Citibank and HSBC.
Marketing, Operations and Human Resources: Asian Paints, Castrol, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Palmolive, GSK CH, HCCB, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Marico, Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G;, Pepsi, Puma, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever among others offered roles in Sales and Marketing and HR functions. DuPont offered marketing leadership development roles. Bosch, Crompton Greaves, Siemens, Shell and Trident recruited students for the HR function. DTDC, ITC, JSL, Lodha Group and Tata Steel offered operations roles in supply chain and procurement.
General Management: Aditya Birla Group, Hinduja Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, RPG and TAS offering roles in this domain.
Consulting: Accenture Strategy, Capgemini Consulting, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Everest Group, Hay Group, iCRM, KPMG, McKinsey & Co, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Boston Consulting Group, TSMG and Vector Consulting were some of the companies which recruited for this function. Ernst & Young offered transaction advisory roles.
Sector-Wise Drill Down:
BFSI: More than 30% students from the BM batch were recruited in this sector. Recruiters included Aviva, Axis Bank, BharatiAxa, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Creador, CRISIL, Development Bank of Singapore, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, HSBC, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, ING Vysya Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Nomura, Standard Chartered, UBS and Yes Bank.
FMCG: This sector recruited the maximum number of students (17.65%) from the HR program. Asian Paints, Castrol, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, GSK CH, HCCB, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Marico, Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G;, Pepsi, Puma, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever offered roles in this sector.
Consulting: Accenture Strategy, Capgemini Consulting, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Everest Group, Hay Group, iCRM, KPMG, McKinsey & Co, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Boston Consulting Group,TSMG and Vector Consulting were some of the recruiters from this sector.
Conglomerates: Aditya Birla Group, Hinduja Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, RPG and TAS offered general management roles in this sector.
Communications and Networking: Airtel, Cisco, Ericsson and Vodafone were some of the companies which recruited from the Communications and Networking sector.
E-Commerce: Amazon, Flipkart and Jabong offered roles in sales & marketing, HR and operations.
Note: The placement report is based on claims made by the institute in its placement report and answers to our questions thereafter. 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.