Indian Institute of Management (IIM-B), Bangalore has achieved a 100 per cent placement for

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its batch of 270 students within a span of 5 days. A total of 120 companies visited the campus this year and firms in emerging sectors like healthcare and energy offered several positions to IIM-B students apart from the traditional ones including banking, consulting, marketing and general management.

According to Praveen Gopal Krishnan, student media cell representative at IIM-B, Deloitte was the biggest hirer on campus. “Deloitte made 10 offers, while other consulting bigwigs like McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group made nine offers each. Some of the other Slot Zero recruiters who visited IIM-B this year were Bain, Booz, AT Kearney, Diamond Consulting, Alvarez & Marsal, Nomura and Temasek Holdings,” he added.

Other prominent recruiters at the campus included Proctor and Gamble, ITC and American Express who made six offers each. Amongst the first-time recruiters, healthcare group Narayana Hrudyalaya offered senior level positions to six students. A total of 15 firms visited the campus this year for the first time. In addition, several companies including Nomura, Temasek, P&G, Enzen, Arvin Meritor and UAE Exchange offered international positions to a total of

15 students.

Though IIM-B did not disclose the salaries offered to students, it confirmed that the level was definitely higher compared to last year.

“The precursor to the finals was very positive. The summer placements that took place about five months back went really well and in addition to that the laterals also shot up with students bagging 66 offers as against 50 offers made last year,” Krishnan said.

In the final placements this year, a total of 90 students accepted offers from Slot Zero companies, a rise of 41 per cent over last year. The banking and financial services (BFSI) sector turned out to be the largest recruiter with 27 per cent of the offers, followed by consultancy which made about 22 per cent of the offers.

“The other major sectors were IT & Systems (20 per cent), marketing (12 per cent), and general management (9 per cent) with the remainder accounted for by PE, emerging sectors and PSUs,” he said.