In Nov 2011, Class of 2013 at IIM Kozhikode was the first batch at any business school for which the InsideIIM Placement report was published. Read the Summer's Report for this batch here. Read Final Placements Report for 2012 here.
This is an unverified report. We wrote to SPJIMR asking for the report in the InsideIIM format but we did not receive any response.
First in our series of reports for this year. XLRI was one of the first schools to report completion of placements this year. XLRI registered 100% placement in this tough year. 63 PPOs would have helped. Over 25% of the batch was placed before the placements started and that would have made life considerably easy for the placement committee. (You can read about the Summer Placements for this batch here)
We estimate that 6-8% of the students from across all the top business schools in India which are featured on this website will be left unplaced or will sign out of the placement process. The cut-off time we look at is the convocation ceremony season that begins this week and goes on till the 2nd/3rd week of April. We have arrived at this figure based on actual data from the ground. At least 4 Old IIMs had double-digit number of students still to be placed as on March 10, 2013 (PGP/PGDM). There is a top business school in South India with three-digit number of students still to be placed as on March 5, 2013. These are facts. Our estimate is based on actuals.
Those of you who balk at doing a foreign MBA should meet Rishub Jhunjhunwala. This HKUST grad from the batch of 2012 is now Associate Director at Standard Chartered Bank, Mumbai. A dizzyingly fast rise, if you consider that he had just completed the BMS program from Jai Hind college in 2006. He is a great example of what a foreign MBA can do for you. It can open doors that remain locked for local MBA graduates. Of course, it is expensive, and it is not easy to get in, you need top notch credentials, and Rishub's CFA qualification and would have gone a long way in helping him stand out among the pool of applicants. Not everyone can complete their CFA before even applying to B school, but the broader lesson here is that if you have a career plan and execute accordingly, and if you are willing to spend a little bit extra, the rewards to a foreign MBA from a top B school can be fantastic. In our third article featuring HKUST, (read the introduction to HKUST here and interview with executive director of the MBA program) we bring to you an interview with Rishub Jhunjhunwala.
In 2011, over 2500 students graduated from the top B schools in India that we cover. We thought we should build some insight into how people do 18 months after graduation i.e. see how many people switch jobs in the first 18 months after graduation.
It’s February and I hope everyone would have commenced planning about the closure of their books of accounts. The most important aspect that needs consideration while planning is how to effectively reduce one’s income-tax liability for the current year (FY 2013).
I am an IIM alumnus and what I write below applies to me as well.
