IIFT Placemnet Report 2009 : Beating the odds

IIFT PLACEMENT REPORT 2009

Amidst global meltdown where companies led to layoffs across sectors all over the world and most organizations seemed to be putting their growth plans on hold. The signs looked ominous for the recruitment season across B-schools, but IIFT rose to the challenge, achieving 100% placements for its students. In times like these, when very few companies were recruiting in large numbers, IIFT stood out for its diversity of recruiters across various sectors, and the variety of profiles being offered with no dearth of companies for the batch of 2007-09 students of IIFT.

Here is quick snap shot of the placements at IIFT:

• This year IIFT added 20% more recruiters to its previous year’s numbers.
• More than 10 public sector organizations visited the campus recruiting 30% of the students in the batch.
• 26% and 30% of the batch got recruited for international business & trading and marketing roles respectively.

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The placement process witnessed participation from the top companies across diverse sectors. A total of 62 companies made final offers to the students including industry leaders like ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Nomura Holdings, Coca Cola, M&M, Bharti Airtel, Titan, Bajaj Auto, Cargill, Tata Motors, Axis Bank, ICRA, Eli Lilly and Vodafone; who recruited students for various roles like marketing, sales, corporate finance, treasury, operations, logistics and international business.

Some of the start-ups like Emergent Ventures India, Vignani Solutions, and FINO Analytics offered niche profiles in carbon consulting, financial modeling, microfinance and business development.

The Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) were amongst the prominent recruiters on campus. A lot of students this year were offered roles in marketing, finance, trading & international marketing in these government sector organizations. Some of the prominent recruiters were BHEL, STC, PEC, Bank of Baroda, SAIL, IDBI Bank, NMDC, MMTC, CDC, IIFCL and ECGC.

IIFT retained its niche in international business and trading with 26% of the batch getting recruited for those roles. Sales and marketing also was a preferred option, with 30% of the batch getting placed in the same.

A list of major companies recruiting for various roles are as follow:-

Sales & Marketing:Bajaj Auto, Tata Motors, ITC, ICI Paints, Usha International, Coca Cola, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Tata Steel, Titan, Colgate Palmolive, Glenmark, Eli Lilly, GVK Bio and Godfrey Philips

IT & Consulting:  Arthur D Little, Cognizant, Avalon Consulting, HCL, TCS, Genpact, Infosys BPO, CDC, Eka Software

Banking & Financial Services:Nomura Holdings, Axis Bank, ICRA, CARE Ratings, Bank of Baroda, Darashaw, KA Securities, Copal Partners, Sara International, IIFCL

General Management, Trading & others:Bertling Logistics, Virgin Mobile, A.P.Moller-Maersk, Triton Group, Cargill, Gateway Rail Freight & Mitsui Trading

Related Links:
FMS MBA Placement Report 2009 | DoMS IIT Delhi Placement Report |IIFT 2009 Entrance Exam

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