Summer Placements – Class of 2015-17 : IIFT Delhi & Kolkata

(The final placements of the most recently graduated batch can be found here)

Highlights as per IIFT Placement Team
- The summers of 2015 saw the largest batch ever at IIFT placed in the shortest time span
- Overall 96 companies participated in the Summer Placement season and the Average stipend saw a rise of 30% with highest stipend on offer being 4,00,000 INR for the entire internship duration
- This year’s summers also saw good participation of companies rolling out 12 international offers across locations such as Latin America, China, Singapore, Africa, Paris & Dubai
- Sales & Marketing roles continued to be the most sought after ones with 41% of the batch opting for them. Finance & Consulting were the other more sought after roles accounting for 20% each
- Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, ITC, Godrej Industries, Shell, Flipkart, Amazon and Vodafone together made a whopping 58 offers
- S&M space had marked diversity in new associations comprising FMCG major Dabur, Marico, Pidilite, J&J Consumer, GSK Consumer. GE opened its coveted FMP program and Shell offered Sales & Marketing role. Boston Scientific, Becton Dickinson visited IIFT for the first time from Healthcare industry
- More than 53% batch received an unprecedented 6 digit stipend amount for the entire duration
- WTO continued to show faith in IIFTians and came back to recruit summer interns. OECD also hired for its Paris office.
- E-Commerce firms like Flipkart, Amazon, eBay, Zovi, Shopclues etc made their presence felt by offering a multitude of roles with around 20% students opting to intern with them
- Variety in roles on offer in Finance domain was a major highlight. HSBC Bank offered its prestigious Consumer - Banking role after a brief hiatus. Axis Bank and ICICI Bank retained their trust in IIFTians.
- Microsoft offered a niche role in Market Research and Trade Analytics
- World’s largest container shipping company, Maersk Line, visited IIFT for Supply Chain & Logistics roles and World’s largest Aerospace company Boeing offered Strategy and Business Development roles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Summer Placement Reports for the Class of 2017 across schools can be found here

Summer Placements – Class of 2016