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Rural Banking & Micro Finance Emerge as Dominant Recruiting Sector at IIFM Placements 2006 IIFM, Bhopal started in 1982 as a sectoral management Institute under the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India. This is one of its kinds in endeavoring to produce young managers equipped with the knowledge and experience to mange natural resources successfully blending very well the management inputs with inputs from Social Sciences and Technical subjects. Apart from education, the Institute is engaged in research, training and consulting in collaboration with several national and international organisations like Ford Foundation, FAO, World Bank, IDRC, ITTO, Asian Development Bank, IIED, DFID, SIDA, UNESCO, and others. Final Placements 2006 IIFM conducted its final placement process between January 9th-16th 2006. A total of 43 students of the Batch of 2004-2006 were placed across 7 days of recruiting. The process this year was extended in terms of duration to accommodate a number of pre-processes, and to give both interviewers and candidates more time for selection. This year also IIFM continued its unbroken trend of 100% placements of its Post Graduate Diploma in Forest Management (PGDFM) students. More Companies, More Diversity, More Jobs According to Prof. D. K. Bandyopadhyay, Director, IIFM, Placement 2006 at IIFM got an overwhelming response from 35 organisations out of which 15 companies were subsequently invited to the campus, giving due consideration for the job profile and compensation packages offered. This year the placements witnessed an increase of 7.5% in job offers made from last year. Among the foreign recruiters, Olam International, Singapore, came this year as well to its favorite hunting ground. In addition, a number of Indian finance, marketing and marketing research companies also visited campus for the first time along with regular visitors from development and environment sector giving a wider range of opportunity to students. These additions to the list of recruiters enabled an increase of Day Zero jobs from 20 last year to 36 this year. The total number of foreign jobs remained the same as last year at 3. The foreign jobs were divided across Africa and Indian sub-continent.
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