“Tough times do not last, tough people do”.
As the year 2009 witnessed the world crumbling under the Great Economic Downturn, which had no precedent in its magnitude; As the businesses grappled to survive the tough times and as many businesses perished owing to weak revenue models or foundations, one thing that was made clear to the world was that in order to survive in this Economic scenario, one has to have rock solid foundations and prudent knowledge along with highly institutionalized integrity and credibility.
This is the reason, International Management Institute, New Delhi, with its elite and dignified academic foundations, proved yet again that “When the going gets tough, the TOUGH gets going!”. A glance at the Placement Scenario in 2009 shows this:
To begin with, International Management Institute would like to acknowledge its gratitude towards the corporate patrons for their continued faith and trust in the quality of students IMI has provided them over the years. It is because of this, that even during the downturn, more than 48 companies visited the campus and participated in the Final Placements Process – 2009.
The Placement Season at IMI had already begun way back, when the students did an exceptional work during their Summer Internships and started receiving Pre Placement Offers (PPOs) and Pre Placement Interviews (PPIs) ever since August 2008. Some of the prominent domestic companies that offered PPOs to students were: RPG Enterprises, DSCL, Asian Paints, Maruti Suzuki, Ranbaxy, Perfetti Van Melle India Pvt. Ltd, Onida (MIRC Electronics), CEAT Limited etc… just to name a few.
PGDM (2007-09) Batch Placements
As can be seen from the Pie Chart above, the PGDM Batch of 2009 (which includes specializations of Marketing, Finance, Operations, IT), the companies offered a plethora of profiles ranging from International Marketing, Wealth Management, Market Research, Sales and Distribution to mention a few.
For the Marketing Profile, RPG Enterprises – CEAT and KEC International emerged as the highest paymaster, paying 10.5 lakhs p.a. for the Marketing profile, followed by Vodafone which recruited a student on 9.92 lakhs p.a. for their Sales and Marketing profile. Amongst the other top paymasters were Ranbaxy, HCL, Hindustan Unilever etc... Many new recruiters joined the list including Canara HSBC,IMRB, IREDA, Ranbaxy, Perfetti, Pulsar Knowledge Center etc… The telecom sector also witnessed recruiters like Infosys BPO, Tata Teleservices, Perot Systems as the big recruiters for their Business Development roles.
The Finance profiles were also offered to interested candidates at IMI, despite of the Financial downturn in the economy. Some of the brands that visited IMI included IREDA, EnY, SBI Life Insurance Ltd, KLG Systel, IFCI, Citibank, Globus Spirits Limited, Central Bank of India etc… offering profiles across the domains like investments, wealth management, equity research, debt intermediation, consulting, credit rating etc…
For Systems and Operations specializations, the companies like Infosys BPO, HCL Technologies and Perot Systems offered profiles across Business Development, consultancy etc… VISA Steel and KLG System also offered operations profile to our students. This ensured that the students were able to choose the profiles based on their areas of interest.
PGDMHR (2007-09) Batch Placements
At a time, when the Human Resource fraternity was witnessing the lowest attrition rates and job openings, IMI tried its best to find suitable jobs for all its students in the PGDM – HR Batch. A brief overview of their profiles is shown below.
The highest Paymaster in the HR Domain was RPG Enterprises, paying 9 lakhs p.a. to students and offering profiles across Corporate HR, Training and Development, Talent Acquisition etc… The batch was placed across the domains including Banking and financial Institutions – SBI Life, FINO, Central Bank of India, FMCG – Global Spirits Limited, Manufacturing – IFFCO Limited, DSCL, and other majors like IREDA,NDPL, RPG Enterprises – CEAT Ltd. HR Consultancy firm Hewitt Associates was also a part of the placement process at the institute. The overall profiles also included Employee Engagement,Compensation and Benefits, Qualitative research and Generalist HR.
