Final Placements 2005 Report from IIM Calcutta

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FMCG

This year around we saw a plethora of marketing firms flooding our institute with offers ranging in fields from Brands to Sales & Marketing to operations. The marketing firms appreciated the quality of students in this batch complementing on their strong fundamentals. Amongst the top recruiters we had Proctor & Gamble, HLL, ITC, Eurosuisse, Nestle, Cadbury, Coke, Dabur and many more firms recruiting from our campus.

Systems

IIM Calcutta carried on with its perception of a strong systems focus with CTS, IBM, HP, Virtusa, Cap Gemini, CSC and Wipro amongst the regular recruiters. This year also saw the Software giant Microsoft coming down from its Redmond office to recruit from IIM Calcutta.

Significant Facts

• The number of Slot 0 offers saw a staggering increase to 51 from 25 last year with 42 acceptances compared to 19 last year.

• 16 companies participated in slot 0 compared to 6 last year.

• 151 offers in Slot 1 compared to 117 last year.

• Total Offers: 391 offers were made this year compared to 312 last year with 1.70 offers made per student compared to 1.32 last year.

• Number of students with Foreign Placements increased to 59 from 23 last year.

• A number of firms recruited for middle management positions during Final Placements 2005.

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