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Rural Managers at XIM-Bhubaneswar Beat Slowdown and Achieve 100% Placements
Beating all the fears and proving many pundits
wrong, Xavier
Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) has been able to
achieve 100% placement for the students of its Rural Management Programme.
All the 59 students of PG Diploma in Rural
Management have been placed in various organization even before
their course ends in the mid of March 2009.
Companies like, Deloitte, Monsanto, Tata
Teleservices, Shriram Group, Devgen, Mother Dairy, Amul, IMRB, Indian
Immunoligicals, were the major corporations which came to campus for recruiting
rural managers. XIM-B also remained a favorite hunting ground for some of the
major micro-finance and development organisations of the country like,
Microsave, Intellecap, Bandhan, Hand in Hand, Pradan, A Little World, and Access
Livelihood Consulting. The highest salary offered was Rs. 8.0 Lakh per annum while the average
salary was Rs. 4.46 Lakh per annum. More than 30 organizations
participated in the process.
“It is some sort of record. When most of the
management institutions dealing with sectoral management education are
struggling because of unfavorable market conditions, we have been able to do
it,” claimed Prof.
Niraj Kumar, who is member of Placement Committee and has been
successfully handling placement of rural management since last four years. “We
have not only been able to keep our traditional recruiters happy with the
quality performances by our alumni, but have been able to widen our base by
reaching to research based organizations like, IMRB and consulting organizations
like, Deloitte,” added Prof. Kumar.
“All of us were keeping our fingers crossed and were
not sure of this so early as we were getting discouraging news from different
institutions across the country where our friends are studying. However, when we
finally made it, we feel happy and proud,” said Shivshankar. V, coordinator of
Student Placement Committee.
Udai Krishna, a first year student, said, “This
year’s placement was an experience for us as companies were much more
quality-conscious and were very selective in the process. Although now we are
hopeful for next year too, but we need to work harder to meet the increasing
expectations from the recruiters.”
“Yes, we could beat the market because of the
consistent performance of our alumni and because of brand XIM-B, but the fact
that Orissa has emerged as a preferred investment destination by many
corporations and development organizations has also helped us considerably,”
said Prof.
Saveeta Mohanty, Coordinator, Placement, XIM-B.
It is important to note that the institute has also
been able to place all of its first year’s rural management students for their
summer internships. There too, new organizations have been added in the list
and project profile has widened. So it is double bonanza for the students of
rural management.
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