HUL Pips Tech Giants To Stay No.1 Among Most Desirable Sales & Marketing Campus Recruiters - InsideIIM Recruitment Survey 2017

Based on past data, Sales & Marketing roles have been the most preferred domain for current students of B-Schools. Apart from the glamour around working for known consumer brands that everyone recognises, it is also the reality that most roles are offered in this domain on the majority of the campuses. The top Finance and Consulting roles are offered on a handful of campuses.

Sales and Marketing

The observation here is that since the time the InsideIIM Recruitment Survey began in 2012, Unilever has topped the rankings almost every year among each respondent category. Despite the fact that Tech giants also offer Sales & Marketing roles and their almost irrational popularity, Unilever has held its own. There is a clear dip in P&G's ranking among MBA Aspirants.

A)  Post - MBA Professionals

Coca-Cola is missing from the list. So is Pepsi. Probably a sign that the Cola giants are not as popular as they once were. A decade back they would be one of the dream companies that fresh b-school graduates would want to have joined. Today they barely make the Top 10 across categories. Reckitt Benckiser has edged over the likes of giants Google, Facebook, and Nestle.  The rest of the list remains the same as that of 2016.

B) Current Students

Amazon and Facebook are the two new entrants in the list, after missing out on a place in 2016. Facebook, after dropping its Free Basics initiative in 2017, finds India as its biggest market, outdoing even the United States which is the tech giant's home-base. This could be a hint towards greater campus recruitment and more exciting prospects for current students. Google's jump from being last to being the 2nd most preferred recruiter could indicate that the Search Giant could be adopting more aggressive recruitment processes, as it expands its horizons in India.  Amazon's re-entry could be attributed to the fact that it is expanding in India, with the company aiming to double its storage capacity in the country, which will create approximately 5000 more jobs.

C) Aspirants

The big brands have shifted very little from previous years' reports. As can be observed, the brands listed are the most popular and leading brands, which goes on to prove that only perception has been the deciding criterion for Aspirants' preferences. Older brands such as Coca-Cola and Asian Paints may be losing their relevance when compared to Technology and E-Commerce giants such as Google and Amazon, which are perceived as more exciting organisations to work for. Google's work culture is known to be extravagant in terms of its services for employees.

FMCG

If we look at the FMCG Space alone, again there is a clear pattern that emerges - Cola makers are not cool places to work at anymore. It is visible across categories. They barely make the Top 5.  Nestle and RB are the next most desired on average. What is interesting is that Aspirants don't know what RB is - if we had asked them to rank Dettol or Durex, the ranking would have been very different in the Aspirant list. L'Oreal's lack of presence in the top 10 for current students is very surprising given the amount of work the company does in order to engage with campus students.

Sales and Marketing

ASPIRANTS	Desirability on a scale of 0 to 100	CURRENT STUDENTS	Desirability on a scale of 0 to 100	POST - MBA PROFESSIONALS	Desirability on a scale of 0 to 100
Unilever/Hindustan Unilever	85.42	Unilever/Hindustan Unilever	89.21	Unilever/Hindustan Unilever	82.64
Amazon	85.19	Google	87.81	Procter & Gamble	81.18
Google	84.36	Procter & Gamble	87.58	Amazon	79.18
Facebook	84.12	Nestle	85.13	Reckitt Benckiser	75.5
Nestle	81.08	Reckitt Benckiser	83.86	Google	73.32
Microsoft	80.05	Facebook	83.61	Johnson & Johnson	71.14
Procter & Gamble	79.77	Coca - Cola Company	83.47	Colgate Palmolive	70.86
Mondelez (Cadbury's)	78.81	Mondelez (Cadbury's)	83.15	Facebook	67.09
PepsiCo	78.64	Colgate Palmolive	81.67	Nestle	65.82
ITC	78	Amazon	81.56	Asian Paints	65.45

FMCG

ASPIRANTS	Desirability on a scale of 0 to 100	CURRENT STUDENTS	Desirability on a scale of 0 to 100	POST - MBA PROFESSIONALS	Desirability on a scale of 0 to 100
Unilever/Hindustan Unilever	85.42	Unilever/Hindustan Unilever	89.21	Unilever/Hindustan Unilever	82.64
Nestle	81.08	Procter & Gamble	87.58	Procter & Gamble	81.18
Procter & Gamble	79.77	Nestle	85.13	Reckitt Benckiser	75.5
Mondelez (Cadbury's)	78.81	Reckitt Benckiser	83.86	Johnson & Johnson	71.14
PepsiCo	78.64	Coca - Cola Company	83.47	Colgate Palmolive	70.86
ITC	78	Mondelez (Cadbury's)	83.15	Nestle	65.82
Johnson & Johnson	77.91	ITC	82.75	Asian Paints	65.45
Coca - Cola Company	77.81	PepsiCo	82.59	L'oreal	65.14
L'oreal	76.19	Colgate Palmolive	81.67	Mondelez (Cadbury's)	64.86
Colgate Palmolive	74.55	Johnson & Johnson	80.76	PepsiCo	64.27

 

Read our other InsideIIM Recruitment Survey - 2018 reports:
1)  Which Are The Most Preferred General Management Campus Recruiters?
2)  How Can Campus Recruiters Make The Hiring Process Better?
3)  How Are Alumni Doing – Job Satisfaction, Work-Life Balance And More
4)  What Is The Reasonable All-Inclusive Cost Of Doing An MBA?
5)  What Is The Cost Of Doing An MBA?
6)  India's Most Desirable B-Schools.

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