Final Placement Report - 2014

The Faculty of Management Studies has had a legacy of securing stellar

placements, The Faculty of Management Studies has had a legacy of
securing stellar placements, both in terms of the compensation and the wide variety
of profiles on offer. This years placement season has continued this legacy, securing
212 offers for a batch where 205 students participated in the placement process,
ensuring 100% placements. 37 first-time recruiters visited the campus this season.
Number of companies participating 107
Total number of students in the batch (across courses) 217
No of People Opting out for pursuing Entrepreneurial Ventures 4
Number of Pre Placement Offers made 38
Average salary of total offers (INR Lakhs per annum) 16.18 LPA
Average salary of Top 50% offers made 19 LPA
Among the students opting out of placements, 4 of them chose to pursue
entrepreneurial ventures. One such venture, Commerce Labs LLC, develops software
plugins for e-commerce websites, while another deals with the procurement and sale
of sporting goods. The rest of the students who opted out of the placement process
chose to pursue their careers in civil services and other alternatives.
While retaining its reputation as the marketing campus of the country, this years
placement process witnessed healthy participation across all domains, ensuring
plenty of choice for the candidates to pursue careers in the field of their preference.
Consulting and General Management have continued to gain ground as they
collectively comprise a third of the total number of offers. The lateral placement
process received healthy participation from our recruiters resulting in an
unprecedented 62 offers being made, doubling in number compared to last year.
Batch Snapshot
45%
55%
Candidate Split
Lateral
Finals
30%
50%
20%
Processwise Split
(Offers)
Laterals
Finals
PPOs


Final Placement Report - 2014

The Faculty of Management Studies has had a legacy of securing stellar placements,
both in terms of the compensation and the wide variety of profiles on offer. This
years placement season has continued this legacy, securing 212 offers for a batch
where 205 students participated in the placement process, ensuring 100%
placements. 37 first-time recruiters visited the campus this season.
Number of companies participating 107
Total number of students in the batch (across courses) 217
No of People Opting out for pursuing Entrepreneurial Ventures 4
Number of Pre Placement Offers made 38
Average salary of total offers (INR Lakhs per annum) 16.18 LPA
Average salary of Top 50% offers made 19 LPA
Among the students opting out of placements, 4 of them chose to pursue
entrepreneurial ventures. One such venture, Commerce Labs LLC, develops software
plugins for e-commerce websites, while another deals with the procurement and sale
of sporting goods. The rest of the students who opted out of the placement process
chose to pursue their careers in civil services and other alternatives.
While retaining its reputation as the marketing campus of the country, this years
placement process witnessed healthy participation across all domains, ensuring
plenty of choice for the candidates to pursue careers in the field of their preference.
Consulting and General Management have continued to gain ground as they
collectively comprise a third of the total number of offers. The lateral placement
process received healthy participation from our recruiters resulting in an
unprecedented 62 offers being made, doubling in number compared to last year.
Batch Snapshot
45%
55%
Candidate Split
Lateral
Finals
30%
50%
20%
Processwise Split
(Offers)
Laterals
Finals
PPOs


Final Placement Report - 2014

45% of the candidates participating in the process had greater than 18 months of
work-experience and were part of the lateral placement process. PPOs accounted for
a fifth of the offers made.



BFSI
23%
Consulting
16%
FMCG
16%
IT
21%
Media &
Entertainment
4%
Others
5%
Manufacturing
6%
Healthcare
4%
Telecom/
Technology
5%
Sectorwise Split (Companies)
Consulting
18%
General
Management
13%
Finance
20%
IT
12%
Operations
4%
Sales and
Marketing
33%
Domainwise Split


Final Placement Report - 2014

Consulting/ General Management
Students of the campus secured placements from McKinsey and Co. and BCG,
testifying the campus calibre in this domain. Deloitte USI and Deloitte India made 12
offers at FMS, collectively making them the largest recruiters in this years process.
Cognizant Business Consulting and Infosys Management Consulting visited the
campus for the first time while Avalon Consulting offered the students a role in front-
end strategy consulting.
In the domain of General Management, numerous offers were made in a variety of
sectors with Reliance Industries Limited being the largest recruiter. Niche profiles in
this domain include the position of Deputy General Manager, Strategy offered by
Videocon.

McKinsey & Co. Boston Consulting Group Deloitte
Accenture Strategy Tata Administrative Services Capgemini Consulting
Trident Reliance Industries Limited Bain Capability Centre
Cipla Infosys Management Consulting Ranbaxy
Avalon Consulting Cognizant Business Consulting Mindtree
Airtel Mahi ndra and Mahindra Larsen and Toubro
Videocon Jindal Steel Private Li mited
Marketing
FMS continued to maintain its position as a stronghold for the domain of Sales and
Marketing. This years process saw the offers in the Marketing domain spread across
a variety of sectors. MH Alshaya and Tata Elxsi were first time recruiters who offered
the students positions with international postings. FMS also received healthy
participation from legacy recruiters in the FMCG sector such as HUL, P&G, ITC,
Johnson & Johnson, Asian Paints, Dabur, Godrej and GSK.
HT Media, Times OOH, Sony Entertainment Television and Star represented the
Media and Entertainment sector while Samsung, Microsoft and Vodafone were
companies from the Telecom and Technology sector. FMS students emerged as the
national winners of the BIAC competition and secured offers from PepsiCo.


Final Placement Report - 2014

Consumer banking profiles were offered by Standard Chartered, Citibank, HSBC and
Axis Bank.
HUL P&G Nestle ITC
J&J Consumer Asian Paints GSK Godrej
Perfetti PepsiCo Dabur Mars
Adidas LOreal Vodafone Times OOH
Zee Hindustan Times SET Star
American Express Standard Chartered Citibank HSBC
Maruti Coca Cola Beverages Titan Wipro
Microsoft Google Samsung

International Offers
MH Alshaya Tata Elxsi
Finance
The BFSI sector accounted for nearly one-fourth of all companies participating in the
process this year. An impressive array of international banks visited the campus. The
Faculty also witnessed healthy participation from Indian Banks and a lot of niche
profiles were on offer during this years process such as roles in front end investment
banking and financial markets.
FMS secured the participation of Indus Balaji, a private equity firm. Corporate finance
profiles were offered by Coca-Cola, Nestle and Matrimony.com, ensuring that the
students had sufficient breadth in terms of sector as well as profiles in choosing to
pursue their careers in the financial domain.

Deutsche Bank JP Morgan Chase Citibank HSBC
Bank of America Nomura Royal Bank of Scotland AC Nielsen
Axis Bank ICICI Bank HDFC Bank IndusInd Bank
Indus Balaji SBI Capital Markets Coca-Cola Matrimony.com
Nestle ING Vysya


Final Placement Report - 2014

Operations/ IT
Operations and IT accounted for a fifth of all the jobs offered at FMS. Zomato offered
the campus the position of Assistant Vice President, Operations. Prosegur, a
multinational that deals in security of financial services offered the students an
operations profile with an international stint. The other profiles offered spanned
across a wide variety of roles including supply chain, procurement and logistics.
In the IT domain, FMS secured the participation of new recruiters who were emerging
leaders in their field such as Jabong and Flipkart. Students of the campus secured
placements in General Electrics coveted IT Leadership programme. Google, visiting
the campus for the first time, was joined by Infosys BD and Matrimony.com in
offering marketing roles from the IT sector. Microsoft also offered its coveted
Program Manager role for its India Development Centre, while HCL offered its
international position of Global Engagement Manager for the second consecutive
year. Other profiles offered were the roles of product management, business
analytics and IT consulting.
Flipkart Coca-Cola GE Prosegur
Microsoft Citibank Google HCL
Infosys BD Genpact InfoEdge Mindtree
TCS Jabong Aricent Wipro
Placement Convenors Message:
The successful completion of a placement process testifies the quality of students
graduating from the institute and the relevance of our curriculum to the world of
business. The wide variety of profiles offered across domains is a reflection of the
diversity of the student pool. This variety ensured that students had ample
opportunity to pursue their careers in a domain and organisation of their choice and
contribute to nation building in several ways.
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all the recruiters who participated in
this process and showed their faith in the talent that FMS has to offer. We would also
like to express our gratitude towards our esteemed fellow faculty members and the
illustrious alumni that this institute has produced over the years for their invaluable
support in the successful conduct of this placement process.
- Dr. Mala Sinha & Dr. Anjala Kalsie