Consumer goods sector largest recruiter at IIM-A

AHMEDABAD: The consumer goods and services sector represented a large portion of recruiters for summer internships at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Friday.
The second cluster comprised cohorts like consumer goods and services, Indian financial services firms, general management leadership programmes, niche consulting, and private equity, venture capital and investment management firms.


Regular recruiters such as Amazon, Hindustan Unilever Limited, and Procter & Gamble made a significant number of offers in the consumer goods and services space. Amazon extended 11 offers and was the largest recruiter in the cluster.
A plethora of options were available to students interested in marketing internships. Philips recruited students for business development, and sales and marketing internships as part of its business leadership programme. Shell India recruited students for the first time from IIM-A for sales and marketing internships. Vinay Shinde, graduate recruitment team leader at Shell India said, "The offer system, being different from the other IIMs, reduces the pressure in the process. The process also gave us sufficient time to interact with candidates. Also, we liked the fact that candidates were sure about what they wanted."
In the general management domain, Tata Administrative Services, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra and Mahindra, and Reliance recruited a substantial number of summer interns.
Leading multinational companies such as General Electric and Johnson & Johnson also participated in the recruitment process. Technology firms also extended offers to several students in the second cluster with firms such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft recruiting students for several profiles.
According to the institute, a significant portion of firms conducted pre-interview processes in the form of group discussions on November 8.
Over 25 companies comprising regular and fresh recruiters in the three cohorts of global strategy consulting, international investment banks and investment management firms participated during the first cluster of the summer placements on Wednesday.
Cluster 3 and 4 are scheduled to be held on 16th and 19th November respectively.

Source:The Times Of India