Summer Placements at TISS, Mumbai Reaffirms its High Brand Equity

Summer Placements at TISS, Mumbai Reaffirms its High Brand Equity

The Summer Placement process at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, for the students of Human Resources Management and Labour Relations (HRM & LR), batch of 2006-2008, culminated in second week of November, marking hectic recruitment by the who's who of the corporate

world, with 100% placements reaffirming the remarkably high brand equity of one of India's oldest & unique 'B-school'.

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.

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Contributed by -
Ramanathan V.,
Media Relations,
PM & IR - Batch of 2005 - 2007,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

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