More than 110 organisations participated in Summer Placements 2008 at IIM Lucknow, making it one of the largest and most exciting recruitment exercises to be conducted across B-School campuses. Firms from across verticals demonstrated their confidence in the quality of students and reaffirmed their choice of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruiting partner.

IIM Lucknow continued to attract the best organizations in the banking and financial sector and these companies offered a wide spectrum of roles across functions to the students. More than 32% students chose the financial sector as their preferred vertical. The major I-Banking/ PE firms in this sector included Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Baring Private Equity Partners, O3 Capital, 2i Capital, Seedfund, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs. The long standing relationship with premier banks like Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, RBS Group, American Express, ICICI bank and Axis Bank was further strengthened.

IIM Lucknow re-asserted its standing as a premier Consulting campus with participation from consulting giants like McKinsey & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewitt Consulting, Frost & Sullivan and many other top consulting firms. Top general Management profiles from TAS and Aditya Birla Group further add to this impressive list.

As has been a trend in the past, placements in the field of sales and marketing attracted the best organizations in the world. Corporates such as HUL, P&G, Nokia, Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, GlaxoSmithKline, Alshaya, Bharti Group, ITC, Marico, Asian Paints, Dabur, Colgate Palmolive, Cadbury and Reckitt Benckiser recruited students in large numbers to spearhead their marketing initiatives.

IIM Lucknow further strengthened its relationship with regular recruiters such as L&T, RPG, Futures First, IBM, Cognizant, Wipro and TCS while fostering new relationships with firms like Merrill Lynch, 2i Capital, Microsoft, IMACS, Diageo, Seedfund, Emergent Ventures and many others. The fact that a battery of firms was willing to forge new relationships with the institute in these troubled times stands testimony to the fact that there always is demand for quality managerial talent coming from the nation’s premier B-School.

Building over past trends, several IIM Lucknow students will be pursuing internships in locations like Singapore, London, Switzerland, United States and the Middle East. International locations were offered by McKinsey & Co., Aditya Birla Group, TAS, HUL, P&G, Cognizant, Diageo and Alshaya Group.

For the first time in its history, IIM Lucknow had a day dedicated for hosting entrepreneurial ventures. Based on strong student demand, this endeavor was IIM Lucknow’s initiative to celebrate the entrepreneurial talent present within our community. The day saw participation from more than 20 of the most exciting and progressive entrepreneurial ventures across verticals. These included firms launched by several of IIM Lucknow’s own alumni. Students greeted these firms with an enthusiastic response and many chose to intern with these firms over other lucrative offers.

Extremely delighted with the quality of students and their overall recruiting experience, here is what an executive from one of India’s top FMCG firm had to say about Summers at IIM Lucknow: “It was our pleasure to visit your campus and we are extremely delighted by the way (IIM Lucknow) ran the entire process. I must compliment the hardwork put in by you all in making it a seamless and mutually beneficial recruitment process.”

Detailed Break-Up of Placement figures

The Summer Placements at IIM Lucknow has beaten everyone’s expectations, and has been a huge success. The expectations of students were built on the basis of placement data from other premier B-schools this year, or the successful Summer & Final placement seasons at IIM Lucknow last year. With respect to either comparison, we firmly believe that this year’s Summer Placements at IIM Lucknow have been superior. This is in spite of the prevailing macro-economic scenario, re-affirming the consistent demand within the industry for talent from IIM Lucknow.

We hosted a total of 114 companies on campus, which is an increase of 15% over last year. This was in line with our strategy to invite more companies, as well as build diversity in terms of the sectors available for students to intern in. Companies from across industries reciprocated with great enthusiasm, as is evident from the number who recruited. This also resulted in new relationships established between the institute and more than 25 companies, who participated for the first time.

While several verticals & sectors including - Supply Chain Management & Operations, IT & Systems, Human Resources etc. see substantial representation in our process, the bulk of the offers as well as a majority of the student preferences was in the following 4 sectors this year.

Finance:-

32% of the batch will be interning in Finance roles within Investment banks, PE firms and other banking and financial services institutions. This represents an increase of 25 offers made by these organizations over last year.

Strategy & Consulting:-

An exciting trend is that 34% of students will have internships in Strategy & Consulting based roles within top consulting firms like McKinsey &Co., The Boston Consulting Group, PriceWaterhouse Coopers etc., as well as in conglomerates like the Tata Group, Aditya Birla Group and RPG. This was in line with the expectation of the students, who are rich on prior work-experience in terms of duration and quality. Thus, the number of students in the Strategy & Consulting function has seen a dramatic increase over last year’s number which was 27% of the batch.

Marketing:-

90 students have opted for marketing internships within global powerhouses like HUL, P&G, Diageo, Nokia, Johnson & Johnson, Asian Paints, Cadbury, Nestle etc. IIM Lucknow enjoys the participation of more firms from this domain than any other campus, owing to a strong culture that exists here, a fact that was reinforced this year as well.

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Over 2.5 lakh students, including 50,000 from the Delhi region, are vying for around 1800 seats in the elite Indian Institutes of Management this year. The students appeared for the Common Admission Test (CAT)which was held in 23 cities acros s the country on Sunday.

This year CAT had 90 questions across 3 sections, with Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation having 25 questions each and the Verbal Ability having 40 questions.  ”The paper was definitely easier than previous year,” said well known author of CAT books Arun Sharma.

According to Mumbai-based CAT trainer Munira Lokhandwala, “Data Interpretation was considerably tougher than last year, while Quant was as tough. English was easier.” Munira attempted 85 questions, the 5 unattempted questions being from DI.

This time Verbal was quite heavy in terms of number of questions and DI was a bit difficult compared to last year. Quant had a lot of easy ones for picking. With 40 questions in Verbal the paper was skewed towards studenst with high reading speed.

Anyone who did 10+ questions in quant , 8+ in DI and 12+ in verbal should easily clear individual cutoffs assuming 80% accuracy.

Overall anyone with more than 25 correct answers should be looking for an IIM call provided they clear the individual cutoffs. 

    CAT’08 Cut-offs For atleast one IIM call: QA:30-32 LRDI:28-30 EU:46-48 Overall cut-off:100+  

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Last date of receipt of completed JEE Application Form at the JEE Office
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Date of Joint Entrance Examination
– Sunday, April 12, 2009

Declaration of Results
– Monday, May 25, 2009

INTRODUCTION
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Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, is one of the oldest institutions devoted to education in various engineering disciplines. Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, is the oldest institution of its kind in India. The admissions to the Undergraduate Programmes at these institutions are also made through JEE.

All these institutions are known for providing quality education in science and technology and for research in frontier areas. The environment at these institutions is highly conducive for

building a solid foundation of knowledge,
development of personality, confidence building, self-discipline, pursuit of excellence and
enhancement of creativity, motivation and drive.

All of the above help to prepare the students admitted to these institutions for successful professional and social lives. Today, alumni of these institutions occupy key positions in industry and academia in India and abroad.

Each institute has well-equipped modern laboratories, state-of-the-art computer network, and well stocked technical library. Teaching methods rely on direct personal contact between the teachers and the students, and the use of traditional and modern instructional techniques. Students live in a pleasant and intellectually stimulating environment with people having similar goals and aspirations, which is an exciting and unique experience.

Credit-based academic programmes offer flexibility to students to progress at their own pace. A minimum level of performance is necessary for satisfactory progress. The medium of instruction is English. These institutions offer courses leading to Bachelor’s degree in a number of engineering, technological, and scientific disciplines.

M.Sc. Integrated courses in pure and applied sciences and M.Tech. Integrated courses in a few disciplines are also offered by some of these Institutions. In addition, some IITs offer Dual-Degree M.Tech. programmes, wherein both B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees are awarded.

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SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME(AYURVED)
Applications in the Prescribed Format are invited upto 20-10-2008 for Senior Research Fellowship Programme(Ayurved) in Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha(CCRAS), New Delhi. The details are as under:

Number of Senior Research Fellowship (Ayurveda) 25
(General-13, SC-4, ST-2 and OBC-6)

Qualification
A Post Graduate Degree in Ayurveda in any discipline from a recognised University or Institution and duly recognised by CCIM.

Age Limit
35 Years as on 1-1-2009. (Relaxation of 5 Years for SC, ST, PH and Women and 3 Years for OBC)

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For those scholars who are not drawing/getting Stipend from their respective Institutes/Universities:
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For those scholars who are drawing/getting Stipend:
Financial support in the form of Research Contingent Grant of Rs. 15,000 Per Year for 2nd and 3rd Years will be provided.

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The Institute will conduct a Test on 16-11-2008 at Jaipur to shortlist Candidates for this SRF(Ayurveda) Programme for CCRAS. The Test shall be of 200 Marks divided into 2 Papers of 100 Marks and 2 hours of duration each, viz.

Paper-I Ayurveda carrying 100 Questions of Multiple Choice. (100 Marks).

Paper-II Research Methodology, Latest Research in Ayurveda and Medicinal Plants Sector carrying 100 Questions of Multiple Choice.(100 Marks).

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The filled Application Form along with attested copies of all the relevant documents should reach this Institute by 20-10-2008 along with a Fee of Rs.500 for General and OBC and Rs.300 for SC, ST and PH Candidates in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of “Director, National Institute of Ayurveda” and payable at Jaipur. The envelop should superscribe Application for SRF(Ayurved).

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