Part V of the survey results takes a look at the Sales & Marketing and Technology & E-commerce domains among the three category of respondents:
In 2016, a strategy initiative, popularly called, ‘Do Well By Doing Good’, is showing promise of going mainstream.
IIM Rohtak has concluded its summer placement process for the academic year 2015-16. The institute witnessed an impressive participation of a multitude of companies across varied domains.
Over the past one decade, attrition has become one the key problems that companies are facing globally. The war for talent is at its all-time peak. Employees leave organizations for many reasons - often unknown and contrary to what most managers would like to believe - research proves the reason is most likely not the money!
Ever since the Global Financial Crisis led to a complete hiring freeze in the bulge-bracket investment banks, strategy consulting roles have uniformly gained more favour with the students of the select institutes which traditionally have had access to both of these “premier” roles. Although banks still find favour with those who are quantitatively inclined, consulting offers intellectually challenging work with a lot of breadth. Furthermore, consulting firms, being relatively inured to the vagaries of financial markets’ performance, tend to hire at a uniform rate each year. In addition to these external factors, MBA grads are now content with being affluent, rather than being obscenely rich albeit with a significant quantum of risk. Thus, by virtue of all these factors, consulting has emerged as the most highly rated vertical in the latest edition of the InsideIIM Recruitment Survey. However, one must take cognizance of the fact that it is only the “strategy consulting” which are perceived as very lucrative and not implementation/process consulting. In this regard, one must also acknowledge that these strategy consulting firms in big numbers only from 3/4 campuses in India wherein only the best profiles make the cut.
Today I happened to speak to someone, when he came to know I was an only child, his first reaction was “ooooh the spoilt pampered one ha?” . This is not the first time I am getting such reactions from people who don’t know me well. Hence, I thought of sharing my experience of being a “not-so-spoilt only child”.
Very often we hear people say ‘when I become a VP, I will have finally achieved my dream and be happy and content’, or ‘when I finally buy my dream house, I will be really happy.’ And in this way, years go by and we are still waiting for that moment of happiness to come by.
The past editions of the InsideIIM Recruitment Survey have always given a notion that the halcyon days for the investment banks are over. This year’s survey, however, serves as an inflection point for the very same connotation because although, the BFSI industry has not received the top billing from the respondents, one can see a major improvement in its overall ranking. It primarily owes its success to the rather sanguine outlook ascribed to it by two categories, viz. MBA aspirants & 1st year students and post-MBA professionals. The relative scarcity of on-campus finance roles may be reasoned as the prime driver for the lower ratings received by the BFSI sector from the Class of 2016, wherein no bank apart from Morgan Stanley features among even the top 10 firms.
Part V of the survey results takes a look at the Sales & Marketing and Technology & E-commerce domains among the three category of respondents:
In 2016, a strategy initiative, popularly called, ‘Do Well By Doing Good’, is showing promise of going mainstream.
IIM Rohtak has concluded its summer placement process for the academic year 2015-16. The institute witnessed an impressive participation of a multitude of companies across varied domains.
Over the past one decade, attrition has become one the key problems that companies are facing globally. The war for talent is at its all-time peak. Employees leave organizations for many reasons - often unknown and contrary to what most managers would like to believe - research proves the reason is most likely not the money!
Ever since the Global Financial Crisis led to a complete hiring freeze in the bulge-bracket investment banks, strategy consulting roles have uniformly gained more favour with the students of the select institutes which traditionally have had access to both of these “premier” roles. Although banks still find favour with those who are quantitatively inclined, consulting offers intellectually challenging work with a lot of breadth. Furthermore, consulting firms, being relatively inured to the vagaries of financial markets’ performance, tend to hire at a uniform rate each year. In addition to these external factors, MBA grads are now content with being affluent, rather than being obscenely rich albeit with a significant quantum of risk. Thus, by virtue of all these factors, consulting has emerged as the most highly rated vertical in the latest edition of the InsideIIM Recruitment Survey. However, one must take cognizance of the fact that it is only the “strategy consulting” which are perceived as very lucrative and not implementation/process consulting. In this regard, one must also acknowledge that these strategy consulting firms in big numbers only from 3/4 campuses in India wherein only the best profiles make the cut.
Today I happened to speak to someone, when he came to know I was an only child, his first reaction was “ooooh the spoilt pampered one ha?” . This is not the first time I am getting such reactions from people who don’t know me well. Hence, I thought of sharing my experience of being a “not-so-spoilt only child”.
Very often we hear people say ‘when I become a VP, I will have finally achieved my dream and be happy and content’, or ‘when I finally buy my dream house, I will be really happy.’ And in this way, years go by and we are still waiting for that moment of happiness to come by.
The past editions of the InsideIIM Recruitment Survey have always given a notion that the halcyon days for the investment banks are over. This year’s survey, however, serves as an inflection point for the very same connotation because although, the BFSI industry has not received the top billing from the respondents, one can see a major improvement in its overall ranking. It primarily owes its success to the rather sanguine outlook ascribed to it by two categories, viz. MBA aspirants & 1st year students and post-MBA professionals. The relative scarcity of on-campus finance roles may be reasoned as the prime driver for the lower ratings received by the BFSI sector from the Class of 2016, wherein no bank apart from Morgan Stanley features among even the top 10 firms.
