The 52nd Convocation of Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS) for Post Graduate Diploma was held on Saturday wherein two candidates were felicitated with gold medals and four with silver medals for the session 2011-13.
As many as 330 students were distributed their degrees including the five disciplines namely Human Resource Management, Rural Management, Information Technology, Marketing and Financial Management.
Eight girls bagged the medals among 14 award holders here of which Vasudha Agarwal got dual appreciation as topper of Human Resource Management and first rank among the general candidates.
With the bad percentage of placement of B-schools this year, XISS is less affected in comparison to other management institutions, due to their positioning, reputation of alumni and strength of delivery mechanism.
The highest placement package remained 13.25 lakhs per annum whereas the average salary pack pushed to Rs5.5 lakhs per annum. In the last years there has been substantial rise in the Cost to Company (CTC) in this institute’s record. The CTC from Rs10.82 lakhs in 2011 to Rs12.10 lakhs in 2012 had reached Rs13.25 lakhs per annum in 2013.
Out of the 62 organisations recruiting from this campus, 30 companies visited for the first time or after a gap of 4 years. As many as a total of 200 students have been placed in best industries and social service sector like l&T, Trident, Maruti Suzuki, Crompton Greaves, Mercedes Benz, lG Electronics, Oracle and Eclerx.
The Best Communication Cash Award of Rs10,000 was presented to Chanel Candida Sneyd in memory of late Arunava Ray, an alumnus of XISS who did Personnel Management in 2006-2008.
Ankita Agarwal, the third rank holder in Human Resource Management was given the Unni Krishnan Book grant of Rs5000.
Alumnus of 1978 batch Sumant Sinha and Pramod Kumar of Personnel Management (now Human Resource) who are working as senior officials at Tata Motors were also felicitated by chief guest of the function Head of Tata Motors Jamshedpur Ajoy B lall during this function.