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Booming economy leaves its impact on Summers of XLRI
Key Highlights of Summer Placements 2006 @XLRI
The Summer Internship Program 2006 at XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Management, has concluded on a successful note. Companies vied with each other to select the 182 first year students, both from the Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (PM&IR) courses.
As many as 9 overseas offers were accepted, including offers from Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) at Zurich, ICICI International Banking Group at Hong Kong, TAS and iCRM, a US-based Management Research Firm.
4 students signed out with a niche division of SAP America, the ERP major, which offered the highest domestic stipend of Rs 40,000 per month. This was followed by the prominent consulting firm Hay Group, which offered Rs 32,000 p.m.
IBM (20), HLL (11), Deloitte Consulting (9), Cognizant (8), Aditya Birla Group (8) and ICICI Bank (8) were among the largest recruiters this year making the maximum number of offers.
Reflecting the growing brand equity of both XLRI's Business Management as well as the top notch PM&IR programme, this year saw a significant increase in the institute's consulting portfolio with first time recruiters Deloitte Consulting, KPMG Consulting, SAP America and Watson Wyatt in addition to regular premier recruiters like Ernst & Young, Hay Group, Hewitt Associates and Mercer. 17% of the batch opted for consulting firms.
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