IIM Calcutta Placement 2023-24: All students of 59th MBA batch get job offers

NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Management (IIM Calcutta) said all students of 59th MBA batch of the institute have got job offers during the campus placement drive. A total of 464 students participated in the campus placement drive, securing 529 offers from 194 companies.

The most number of students were recruited by the consulting sector (167 students). Accenture Strategy emerged as the top recruiter in the sector, which included firms like EY-Parthenon, Monitor Deloitte, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vector Consulting and Arthur D Little, McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Kearney and others.

In financial sector, 114 students (21.5 %) accepted employment offers from firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Barclays, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Arga, Avendus, Neo Asset & Wealth Management, Kotak Alternate Assets, Kotak Mahindra Capital, Ambit, Incred, Prime Ventures, Orios VP, Premji Invest, Elevation Capital, O3 Capital, Gaja Capital and Innoven Capital among others.

Tech firms hire 88 students

The technology sector witnessed the participation of firms like Microsoft, Navi, Arcesium, Media.Net, Uber, Angel One, HCL, Newgen, Zomato, Javis, and NPCI. As many as 88 students (16.6%) got job offers in tech firms. In the marketing and general management sector, 130 students (24.6%) were offered opportunities by companies such as ITC, Loreal, Proctor and Gamble, Dabur, Tata Administrative Services, Vedanta, Adani, Hinduja, Aditya Birla Group, Essar Group, JSW and Reliance.

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This year, witnessed a new trend of firms offering roles in ‘Founder’s office’, the institute said. These roles were offered by OLA, IndusInd Bank, Newme, ParkStreet, PoshN, Kofluence among others. The season saw the participation of many first-time recruiters like Jio Financial Services, Hero Fincorp, Yubi, Sobha Realty, Sirius AI, Husk Power Systems and DMI Finance.

Nimruji Jammulamadaka, chairperson of the placement committee, said, “Looking at the market conditions, we were ready for the long haul and focused on diversifying the recruiter base and building student resilience. We must say, the institute has been successful in this regard.”