The average salary registers an upward jump to 25.08 LPA at XLRI final placement 2021

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XLRI, one of the top B-Schools in India has successfully achieved 100% placements for the outgoing batch of 2019-21 of its flagship two-year postgraduate program- Diploma in Management - Human Resource Management and Business Management as all 358 students secured jobs offers within 2 days of XLRI final placement process.

Highlights of XLRI final placement 2021

Some key highlights of the final placement process of XLRI are as follows:

• 108 recruiters participated in the XLRI final placement process 2021 
• A total of 370 domestic and international offers were made
• There were 23 new recruiters this year among the total of 108  
• 33% of students received pre-placement offers (PPOs)
• The entire placement process was conducted in the virtual mode this year
• The average salary saw an increase to INR 25.08 LPA from INR 24.30 LPA this year
• The top segments based on roles offered were Consulting, Sales & Marketing and BFSI (Banking, financial services, and insurance)
• The highest number of offers among the regular recruiters were made by Boston Consulting Group, Bain and Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture Strategy, Amazon, ITC, and Paytm
• New finals recruiters included companies such as Mastercard, DE Shaw, Airbnb, DBS Bank, Nykaa, Freshworks, ZS Associates, Tata Electronics, Rebel Foods and IDFC Bank
• There was a higher presence of ed-tech firms such as Byju’s, Unacademy, VMock in the XLRI final placement 2021

Sector-wise prominent recruiters

Consulting

In consulting many firms participated in recruitment such as McKinsey & Co., Bain & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, Accenture Strategy, Deloitte, PWC, EY, KPMG, AON, Korn Ferry, Vector Group, Everest Group, Thoucentric Consulting, and Infosys.

FMCG, Telecom, and Pharma

In FMCG, companies that participated in XLRI placement process this year were P&G, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Asian Paints, Samsung, and Marico. Some of the pharma-sector companies were Cipla, Dr. Reddy’s, Sun Pharma, Thermofisher, and Aurigene Health Tech.

BFSI

In BFSI (Banking, financial services, and insurance) the companies that participated were Goldman Sachs, J.P Morgan Chase, NIIF, Citibank, Standard Chartered, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI, and Edelweiss. The highest domestic CTC of INR 50 LPA was offered in this sector.

General Management

Roles in General management were offered by conglomerates such as TAS, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra, Capgemini ELITE, Reliance Industries, Xiaomi, and RPG

IT/E-commerce

In these sectors, big firms including Microsoft, Amazon, Paytm, PhonePe, Myntra, Ola, Flipkart, Udaan, AirBnB, HCL, and TCS participated 

Ed-tech 

Ed-tech (Educational technology) firms including Byju’s, Unacademy, VMock also participated in the final XLRI placement process 2021.

PSUs 

Public sector undertaking companies such as Power Finance Corporation and GAIL also participated in the recruitment process.

P Christie SJ, Director, XLRI, said that despite the pandemic and its adverse ripple effects on the global economy, XLRI has achieved the feat of 100 percent placements in a record timeframe this year. He further added, “We attribute the outstanding placements as an affirmation by the corporate world of the highly relevant management-centric education we strive to deliver to our students, year after year.”

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