100 IIM-A students accept 'dream' placements

Ahmedabad: As final placements for the postgraduate programme (PGP) 2014-16 of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) ended, it emerged that around 100 students have opted for their 'dream application', which gave them the flexibility to build careers in sectors of their preference.
Setting a new trend, as many as eight students of the premier business school opted out of the placement process to work on their own ventures, under the guidance and mentorship of the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) of IIM-A.
The final placement process for the class of 2016 of the PGP in management was completed on Friday within three clusters, with students being placed across 13 sectors in functions of their choice.
More than 110 companies participated in the 2016 final placement process. The companies that made the most offers were Accenture Strategy, Amazon, Bain & Co., Flipkart, McKinsey & Co. and The Boston Consulting Group.
Accenture Strategy made the most -18 -offers. Among global banks, Goldman Sachs was the largest recruiter, picking seven students. In the sales and marketing domain, Star India offered nine jobs followed by Procter & Gamble with eight.
The Aditya Birla Group was the largest recruiter in the general management cohort with seven offers. In the internet and e-commerce sector, Flipkart was the largest recruiter having extended 17 offers to students for roles in marketing, operations, product marketing and product management.
Recruiters in the management and niche consulting domain included Accenture Strategy, Alvarez & Marsal, AT Kearney, Bain & Co., McKinsey & Co., Monitor Deloitte, Roland Berger Strategy and The Boston Consulting Group, among others.
Prominent recruiters in investment banking and markets space included Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Kotak IB and Standard Chartered. Among the banking, financial services and insurance recruiters, Axis Bank, Bharti Axa and Yes Bank extended offers.
Sales and marketing roles were offered by the recruiters like Airtel, Disney, HUL, Johnson and Johnson, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Star India, Vodafone, Wipro, among others. The general management cohort saw participation from Aditya Birla Group, Tata Administrative Services, C.K. Birla, Mahindra & Mahindra and Wipro.
The internet and E-commerce space had recruiters like Amazon, Ola Cabs and Sprinklr. The technology cohort saw roles being offered by companies like Google and Microsoft.