IIM Shillong completes summer placements programme

SHILLONG: IIM Shillong has completed summer placements for its batch of 2017-19 consisting of 180 participants.
The average stipend was Rs. 87,000 with the highest stipend being Rs. 3 lakh for two months.
75 recruiters participated in the placement season. Sales and marketing emerged as the most sought-after domain accounting for 35% of the total offers made to the participants.
Regular recruiters such as Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Berger Paints, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, Fidelity Management Research, HSBC, ICICI, ITC, Kohler, Mahindra GMC, MetLife, Nomura, Piramal, Tata Steel, VMWare, Wipro and Yes Bank visited the campus.
New recruiters such as Air Asia, Avendus Capital, Barclays, BPCL, Britannia, JSW and Muthoot Fincorp also recruited in large numbers.
ITC offered the highest stipend of INR 3 lakhs.
Deloitte emerged as the largest recruiter in the consulting domain, offering its coveted S&O profile.
Fidelity Management Research and made maximum offers in the finance domain while Tata Steel, BPCL, Piramal and Titan made the highest number of offers in the sales and marketing domain.
Apart from the increased number of offers in the BFSI, E-commerce and Manufacturing and Retail sectors, the season also witnessed participation from sectors such as Telecom and Aviation who offered sales, business development and research-based roles.