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Goa Institute of Management (GIM) |
Students
Reject Fat Pay-Cheques to Favor Dream Profiles in Placement 2008 at Goa
Institute of Management
Goa Institute of Management (GIM),
one of the premier B-schools in India, had phenomenal placements this year. The
thrilling, once-in-a-year experience that every B-school looks forward to, that
is, the "Placement Week", was over within few hours for GIM!
Placements for the batch 2006-08
started in the early hours of 14th of December and ended the next day. During
the intervening hours, 119 students from
different academic backgrounds with varying work experience were placed in
40 companies.
GIM, which has always been a
favorite haunt of IT companies, has a different story to tell this time. Giants
like Hindustan Unilever Limited, State Bank of India, Marico, Vodafone, Mercer
Consulting, Thomas Cook, Deloitte and Citiglobal straddling across various
domains made a beeline to grab the GIM talent. Regulars like Wipro Technologies,
Infosys, and Cognizant were joined by newcomers like CapGemini and EDS.
A total of
194 offers (plus 12 pre-placement offers)
were made to 119 students, i.e., 1.63 offers per student.
In order to gear up for the forthcoming challenges expected to emerge from the
liberalization of banking sector post 2009, leading banking and financial
institutions like SBI, HSBC, Kotak, Centurion Bank of Punjab, etc., made a total
of 55 offers. Out of the 72 companies which registered with GIM for the
recruitment process, only 40 could recruit.
The real story of Placements 2008
is students rejecting fatter pay-cheques in favor of their dream profiles.
Moving higher up in the value chain, GIM students managed to attract stellar
profiles like Transition Managers, Arbitrage Strategist, Treasury Functions,
Investment Research, Risk Management, Valuation Services, Branding and Strategic
HR consultancy.
