The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) had online placements for the first time where 525 eligible students were recruited for summer placements by over 130 companies. The roles offered included PE/VC, Business Analytics, Consulting, Finance, General Management, IT/Product Management, Operations, Sales and Marketing.

Professor U Dinesh Kumar, Chairperson of Career Development Services at IIM-Bangalore said, “The entire process of summer placements was conducted online and all 525 students -- including PGP and PGP BA students -- were placed with different companies in less than a week of starting the process."

“Traditional recruiters have supported us by bringing in new roles across divisions. New recruiters have come in. Other than the domain of Consulting, students have also received a large number of offers for S&M (95), General Management (81), and Finance (71),” said Anushree Jibhakate, Student Placement Representative, IIM-Bangalore.

There were 144 offers made in Consulting: Accenture Strategy (24), Bain & Company (18), Boston Consulting Group (17), Kearney (15), McKinsey & Company (14), KPMG (7), PwC India (7), Deloitte USI (6), Alvarez & Marsal (5), Auctus Advisors (2), Miebach Consulting (4), GEP Consulting (4), Arthur D. Little (4), Strategy& (3) and others(14).

There were 71 offers made in the domain of Finance, Banking, and Investments. Private equity firms, that made offers, included CDC Group, Gaja Capital, and Multiples. Finance firms including Goldman Sachs (11), Avendus Capital (5), Citibank (5), FinIQ(5), Barclays (4), JP Morgan (3), Deutsche Bank (3), Philips Finance (3), Arpwood Capital (1), Axis Group (2), Bank of New York Mellon (2), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (1) and others (26).

There were plenty of Marketing and Sales offers (95), including P&G (7), Stepcare (7), Vinculum(5), Pidilite (4), Airtel (4), Asian Paints (4), Vodafone Idea Limited (3), Mondelez (3), Tata Sky (3), Coca Cola (3), ACT (3), Hindustan Unilever (3), Samsung (3), Saint-Gobain (3), Johnson & Johnson (2), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (2), Kimberly Clark (2), Colgate Palmolive (2), Bajaj Auto (2), Wipro Consumer Care (1), Dabur (1), AB InBev (1), Lenovo (1) and others (26).

As many as 81 Leadership Track or General Management Track or General Management Track offers were made by Indian business conglomerates, including TATA Consultancy Services (10), Vedanta (7), Tata Administrative Services (6), Business Forum (6), Adani (5), Unacademy (5), Aditya Birla (4), JSW (4), Bajaj Finserv (4), Claimbuddy (4), Machani Group (3), Marico (3), CapGemini (2), RPG Group (2), Renew Power (2), Kalpataru Power (2), Mahindra & Mahindra (1) and others (11).

In addition, there were 93 offers in the broad domain of Information Technology (IT) and Product Management and e-commerce from companies like Amazon (31), Microsoft (7), Stepcare (7), Walmart Labs (6), Appario (6), Kimberly Clark (5), UHG (5), Amagi (4), Infoedge (4), Flipkart (3), Adobe (3), Sprinklr (2), PayU (2 ), Atlassian (2), and Honeywell (1) and others (5).

There were 18 offers made in Analytics from American Express (4), Accenture Strategy (2), MCA Consulting (2), Yodlee (2), Drishya AI(2), and others (6).

There were 27 offers made in the Operations sector from Uber (7), NatWest Group (4), DEC Industries (4), Prione (3), Koo (3), and others (6).

Originally published in Bangalore Mirror:

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