NITIE Summer Placements 2006 - Riding the Crest

NITIE Summer Placements 2006 - Riding the Crest

"Seeing is not believing, but believing is all about seeing." - Anonymous

Life in Mumbai was slowly returning to normalcy after the endless rains that hit the city in July and August but not inside the campus of one of the nation's most illustrious learning place - National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai. It was summer placements time for the Management Batch of 2008. As an integral part of the MBA course, summer projects are designed to provide MBA students an opportunity to put their learning into practice, while enabling companies to assess quality managers-in-the-making by exposing them to real-life application-driven projects.

A wide spectrum of companies made a beeline for NITIE's campus to recruit summer interns with exciting projects offered across varied domains. Companies across various sectors like Consultancy, FMCG, Banking, Insurance, Investment Banking, Pharma, Manufacturing, Automobile, IT, ITeS, etc., made their presence felt which provided the students an opportunity to apply for summer projects in areas of their interest.

More than 60 companies participated in the process and the number of offers received was 1.59 per acceptance. Olam International made international summer placement offers to our students.

Among the new companies that came to the campus the banking and financial services sector ruled the roost. Companies like DSP ML, GE Money, American Express, ICICI Prudential, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank participated in the process and were able to get the right candidates for the profiles offered. Students were bullish on this sector and a record number of people accepted offers of exciting profiles.

Technology sector saw a new entrant to the campus for summers, with Cypress Semiconductors, which has been a regular visitor for final placements. Big names like Cognizant Technology Solutions in the IT sector and Pepsico Ltd. in the food sector also took students for various projects in the concerned streams. Other new companies on campus for summer's process included Scope International, Titan and e-Clerx.

The top recruiters included Wipro and Cognizant who took 12 and 11 students each, followed by Ernst & Young with 7 candidates.

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Contributed by -
Sriram Vasudevan,
Media Coordinator,
Management Batch of 2008,
NITIE, Mumbai.

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