Amidst the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, XLRI-Xavier School of Management achieved 100% placements for the outgoing batch of 2019-21 for its flagship programmes. Two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Management-Human Resource Management and 2-year PG Diploma in Management-Business Management with all 358 candidates securing offers through final recruitment process in record two days despite pandemic.
The final recruitment process saw participation from 108 recruiters with 370 domestic and international offers, inclusive of 23 new finals recruiters.
Fr P Christie S.J, Director, XLRI — Xavier School of Management commented, “We are delighted to announce that despite the pandemic and its adverse ripple effects on the global economy, XLRI has achieved the feat of 100% placements in a record timeframe this year. 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. Stellar success is testimony to our students’ resilient calibre in navigating the industry’s shifting trends and their future journey as young business leaders of tomorrow. We had conducted the entire placement process in a virtual mode this year.”
Officials informed the median salary offered to the batch stood at Rs 23 lakh per annum with the top 10th and 25th percentile average being Rs 37.49 and 34.80 lakh per annum, respectively. The average salary saw an increase to Rs 25.08 lakh per annum from Rs 24.30 lakh per annum in 2020.
Highest domestic offer was at INR 50+ lakhs per annum from the BFSI sector. No. of new recruiters was 23. The top domains based on the roles offered were Consulting, Sales & Marketing and BFSI. Boston Consulting Group, Bain and Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture Strategy, Amazon, ITC, PayTM made the highest number of offers among the regular recruiters.
About 33.33% of the students received pre-placement offers, new final recruiters included prestigious companies such as Mastercard, DE Shaw, Airbnb, DBS Bank, Nykaa, Freshworks, ZS Associates, Tata Electronics, ProgCap, Rebel Foods, IDFC Bank, amongst others. Legacy recruiters like PwC, Goldman Sachs, PayTM, Airtel opened new roles for the students of XLRI.