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Final Placements 2004 @ IIM Kozhikode The lateral placement programme Strong recruiter relationships and an outstanding graduating batch have also led to the resounding success of IIMK's lateral recruitment process this year. Commencing in October and running till the regular Final Placement process in February, the laterals programme was a rolling placement process that allowed firms and students with significant work experience more flexibility in recruitment. Since the graduating batch has an average of 34 months of work experience, a number of firms - especially top IT firms - were enthusiastic about offering lateral-entry roles to them. The Class of 2004 IIM Kozhikode has constantly sought to attract a diverse and eclectic student community from myriad academic, professional and cultural backgrounds, as it believes that this diversity enriches peer learning as well as classroom and group discussion. The Class of 2004 includes a number of engineers, commerce and arts graduates, chartered accountants and architect. They come from a variety of industries including software, banking, energy, HR consulting, engineering, accountancy and others. 25% of the batch has international work experience - 5 continents, 10 countries - either with organizations like Shell, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force, Citicorp and the Merchant Navy, or on assignments abroad for India n organizations like Infosys, Wipro, ANZ IT, Tata Motors and the Reserve Bank of India.
Key Statistics - Final Placements 2004
The regular final placements process was completed in little over a day (i.e. Day One), with 100% placements for the graduating batch. The highest Indian job offer was made by Computer Sciences Corporation to Narendra Wadhwani. Gurvinder Singh Lamba received the highest PPO (pre -placement offer) from GECIS (GE Capital International Services) . 56% of total offers were lateral-entry (higher than entry level). IT turned out to be the largest recruiter, making 51% of the offers at IIMK. Marketing: A wide range of marketing jobs was offered by FMCG, Banking and IT companies. Prominent among past recruiters in this space were Asian Paints, Madura Coats, RPG group, Air India and the Aditya Birla Group. Bharti offered marketing jobs in the telecom domain while Torrent and Wockhardt did so in the pharma sector. First-timers on campus this year who offered marketing jobs were Henkel Spic, IBM, Berger Paints, Wipro Consumer Care, Metlife, BPCL, BASF and the UB group.
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