Niche Areas Like Carbon Trade Consulting Make Their Debut at IIFT Final Placements

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Over the years, we have seen a healthy mix of marketing and finance jobs evolving at IIFT. The trend continued this year with jobs being offered to students across industry verticals like sales, marketing, strategy, banking, trade, consulting, telecom, steel,
textiles, consumer goods, IT, pharmaceuticals, insurance, beverages, media and general management.

Displaying the institute's great connect with the industry, niche areas like carbon trade consulting made their debut at IIFT this year with companies like Emergent Ventures offering such profiles. Media was another new entrant this time around with HT Media recruiting from the campus for the first time.

The functional break-up: Financial Analyst profiles were offered by Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Kotak, ICICI and Inductis while credit rating agency ICRA offered the coveted post of a senior associate analyst. Citibank, Barclays, ICICI, Axis Bank, HSBC and HDFC offered a gamut of marketing, sales and investment banking profiles.

Reckitt Benckiser, ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Britannia, Cadbury along with others represented the FMCG sector. This year also witnessed a slew of tele-communication companies visiting IIFT including Bharti, Vodafone, Reliance Communications, and Idea. Recruiters of business conglomerates like Bharti, Essar, Aditya Birla Group, the Tata Group made several offers on campus. Trade majors like Cargill, Olam International and SRS re-affirmed their belief in IIFT students. Despite fears of an IT slowdown, IT majors Wipro, TCS, HCL, IBM, Cognizant and Infosys were present in full strength.

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