Updated - December 04, 2018 at 06:33 PM.| Hyderabad, December 4
The Indian School of Business (ISB) witnessed highest ever job offers for students of its flagship, post graduate programme in management in the first week of campus placements 2019. The average cost to the company (CTC) is Rs 25.06 lakh per annum.
The integrated placements process in its two campuses at Hyderabad and Mohali, concluded last week.
The total number of offers made were 1,194 for a class size of 886 in comparison to 816 offers last year and 1,136 overall offers for the class of 2018 which graduated early this year.
The Class of 2019 will graduate in March-April next year.
Of the total offers made, 35 pc were for women ; the class has 306 women students – the highest so far.
The school saw 29 per cent increase in the number of recruiters this year. Consulting, IT/ITES, E-Commerce and BFSI sectors were the primary drawers. Eighteen companies, including Deloitte, Accenture and Amazon made more than 15 offers.
Amazon, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, Flipkart, Google, HDFC Bank, LEK Consulting, McKinsey, Microsoft, Oyo Rooms, Reliance Industries, Rivigo, Samsung and Uber reported their largest single-campus hiring from ISB this season.
BFSI hiring saw a spike with marque recruiters like Barclays, Citibank, Credit Suisse, HSBC, JP Morgan, ICICI Bank and Matrix leading the way.
Top international recruiters included Apple, E&Y, GrabTaxi, Li and Fung for locations in the Middle East, Hong Kong, North Africa and Singapore
Startups like Bizongo, Cars24, Magicpin, Paytm, Shuttl, Swiggy, Udaan.com, and Zomatoalso made its presence felt.
“ISB is the preferred partner for many companies. In some cases, ISB is the only campus where some of these companies visit for their India placements. The unprecedented number of offers, this early in the process, is a vote of confidence on the quality of ISB students", said Rajendra Srivastava, Dean, ISB said.
ISB follows a system of rolling placements, a lateral hiring process that is spread over several weeks, giving both recruiters and students time to find their best fit. The final Placements Report for the Class of 2019 will be released in March 2019.
ISB continues to attract Government and quasi-government bodies; Punjab Bureau of Investment Promotion (InvestPunjab), Government of Punjab visited the campus for the first time to hire talent.
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