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Placement 2005


 XLRI Jamshedpur 

XLRI Placements Create New Records in a Unique Year

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The other biggest recruiting industry was IT & ITES accounting for 24% of the batch - Cognizant Technology Solutions, eServe, HCL Technologies, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Infosys, Tata Technologies, TCS and Wipro had offers being accepted. IBM had 11; Cognizant 9 and TCS, Wipro had 5 accepted offers.

The Core Sector included L & T, Mittal Steel and Tata Steel, while General Management companies in the fray included Aditya Birla Group and TAS. Air India, iGate, Fleetguard, ICI Paints and Titan represented other diverse sectors.

XLRI welcomed first-time participants in Accenture (Business Consulting wing), Air India, Bharti, Boston Consulting Group, ICICI Lombard, MBT, Mittal Steel, NCDEX and Novartis. Cadbury, L&T, Nestle and Titan returned to XLRI's Final Placements after a short break.

According to Prof. Sabyasachi Sengupta, Placement co ordinator, "Quality and better quality - this is the most important factor. This year the number of offers and salary packages by most of the top companies have gone up."

XLers also created a new record by bagging over 30 Pre-Placement Offers from companies, based on Summer Internship projects. The details: -

  • BPCL, GE and HLL made 3 offers each.

  • AIG, Cognizant, Hewitt, Hewlett Packard and Mercer made 2 offers each.

  • Coke, DRL, Ernst & Young, Fleetguard, HSBC Bank, ICICI Prudential, L&T, Marico, NSEIT, Seagram, Standard Chartered and TAS made 1 offer each.

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