XLRI GMP 2010 Batch's Placment Summary as covered in Media

Here's XLRI GMP 2010 Batch's Placment Summary as covered in Media


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XLRI GMP Placements in Business Standard

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XLRI Jamshedpur will conduct its final placement for the one year full time General Management Programme (GMP) at Mumbai from March 3 to 6, 2010 at St Xavier’s College. Companies like Apollo, SAP, TCS, Mahindra Satyam, Tech Mahindra, Biocon, Wipro Infotech, Daimler and few Tata group companies have already visited the campus. Over 25 students have already been made offers that range between Rs 11 lakh and Rs 28 lakh per annum. Soumya Ranjan Mahakul, secretary of the placement committee, says: “The average experience of the batch of 100 students is around 7 years with half of the batch having average international experience of 3 years. The diversity caters various sectors in the market.”

The institute is optimistic of placements this year and expects increased recruitment in all the sectors. Rajiv Misra, chairman placements at XLRI said, “The response from companies is definitely looking better. With economy slowly regaining its steam, companies are looking forward to these MBAs with substantial industry experience to become their growth drivers. This is evident from the upward trend in the number of companies registering for the placements and also salaries offered. For example, the leading Super Specialty hospital chain in the country has made 5 offers to the doctors in the batch.

XLRI GMP Mumbai Placements in Economic Times

XLRI GMP Mumbai Placements in Economic Times

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After a gap of a year, Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) will be visiting Mumbai to hold a campus placement week for the students of
its one-year general management programme for working professionals.

Jamshedpur-based XLRI is organising its last leg of placements in Mumbai at St Xavier’s College from March 3 to 6, 2010, and is hopeful that all the students will get placed in four days.

Last year, the institute, known for its programme on personal management, was forced to drop its Mumbai visit due to a lukewarm response from India Inc, which was suffering the effects of the economic slowdown. However, it’s a different story this year. “With the economy changing gears and heightened interest among corporates for hiring, we are visiting Mumbai for final placements,” says associate dean Pranabesh Ray.

Of the batch size of 96 students, 25 students have been placed so far. The placements began in the second week of January. The average salary offered till date is around Rs 15 lakh compared to Rs 13.5 lakh per annum in 2009.

Responses from core sector and information technology companies have picked up this year. Companies in the financial sector too are showing interest. About 15 companies have visited the campus so far. Among them are Apollo, SAP, TCS, Mahindra Satyam, Tech Mahindra, Biocon, Wipro Infotech, Daimler and a few Tata Group companies.

“There is more demand for domain consultants and business development roles in IT companies this year,” says professor Rajiv Misra, chairman, placements. The roles offered are at senior levels like practice lead, assistant VP, directors, general manager, among others. The average experience of the batch is around seven years, and half the batch has an average international work experience of three years.

XLRI GMP Brochure

Xlri Gmp Brochure2010

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Resume Improvment workshop by Ma Foi CEO

We had unique opportunity of participating in Resume workshop conducted by Mr. E Balaji. He has conducted similar workshop at ISB, Hyderabad. It was an interesting, enriching and rewarding exercise.

Balaji E is the Whole Time Director & Chief Executive Officer of Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd, part of Randstad – the 2nd largest HR service provider in the world. In his current role he leads Ma Foi - Randstad’s Staffing Solutions business which comprises of Permanent Staffing, Flexi Staffing, Career Skills Training, Vendor Management Services and Assessment services. He also spearheaded the Franchising foray of Ma Foi where the organization has established 60 business partners across the county in an 18 months time period.
Balaji's functional expertise includes Temp staffing, Executive-Perm Staffing and Assessment services. He has been instrumental in designing several large turnkey assignments and executing them successfully. His division recruits on an average of 6000 people in a month for various clients.
Balaji has over 15 years of experience which began at Ma Foi in 1994. Over these years he has gathered expertise in handling the operations of different branches. He manages a team of about 1150 professionals spread across 60 locations in the country.
Balaji has written a number of articles on Staffing trends in various business journals and is frequently quoted in business Magazines and dailies on HR trends.
Balaji is a Bachelor degree holder in Physics and is a Postgraduate in Business Administration in Marketing.He is a certified Lead Auditor (IRCA, UK) for ISO 9001: 2000 and a Six Sigma Green Belt. A voracious reader, he has a keen interest in management literature, history and politics.

VP, Reliance Capital visits XLRI

Harsh Shrivastava, 36, is a marketing, communications, and public policy
expert. After his MBA from IIM-A in 1995, Harsh has been a journalist;
wrote India’s first book on Corporate Social Responsibility; the first
webmaster of the BJP’s website; an officer on the personal staff of Prime
Minister Vajpayee, and his deputy speechwriter; a senior staffer at the
Confederation of Indian Industry; and the head of marketing for India’s
leading infrastructure services company, Feedback Ventures. He is
currently at Reliance Capital in Mumbai, where he works with both the HR
and marketing departments to improve their communications strategies.
Harsh has taught a course on Strategic Public Communications in 2007 to
the first batch of Public Management and Policy at IIM-A. He’s also written
articles for ET and the Indian Express.

THE VISIT OF THE MAGI

On a silent night in Bethlehem, inside an old stable full of animals, a child was born. There was no bed for the baby, so his mother wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger. The ignorant world was oblivious of the fact that the delicate child sleeping in a manger was the son of god.
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Then three wise men from east (also called The Magi) came to Bethlehem to see the holy child. They carried with them three offerings, namely, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. The gold was symbol of prosperity, frankincense stood for godliness and myrrh meant mortality. They enlightened the world about birth of Jesus. The visit of Magi brought new hope and confidence in people of Bethlehem, as they realised that their saviour was born..........
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But why am I telling you this story? Well ... With Christmas bells ringing all around us and Santa’s sleigh zooming in the sky I could not help joining the chorus of Christmas carols.
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But wait a minute, it’s not just that. For I wonder was it a mere coincidence that in the month of December three of our Alumni of ‘07 batch visited us? While we were lost in our own world, clueless and paranoid about our future Sujoy, Abhishek and Sunil came to the campus........ Came to boost our morale and provide the much needed impetus to our placement activities. They gave us hope, they gave us confidence and they gave us the winning mantras. The two days of togetherness acted as an elixir to our monotonous life marred by hectic study schedules.
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Their visit was ‘The Visit of Magi’ for the GMPians, they came to give us the message of hope and prosperous future. It was great to know that there are people out there watching us, reading our blogs, praying for our success. It was great to know that we are not alone; we have a family, a family of successful GMPians. And each one of us is proud to be a part of the family.

Ma Foi CEO shares his experiences

We were fortunate to listen to Mr. K Pandia Rajan, Founder and CEO, Ma Foi. He was here in XLRI for silver jubilee reunion of 84 batch . It was interesting to listen to peppered talk and his reminiscences of years gone by. He shared his cherished memories of XLRI and his entrepreneurial venture, Ma foi which has grown to size of 700 crore turnover company.
With placement season in the air, He guided us on approaches for placements, industry expectations from GMP batch which has got average work experience of 7.2 years and growing opportunities in entrepreneurship.
It was a great privilege for us to interact and learn from him.