XLRI's GMP Placement "week" at Bangalore (April 7-8)

Hello folks,

for your info - and sharing with prospective recruiters... contacts for more information are:
Dr Kailash +91-9973763211,
Vinay  +91-9162777902

Like earlier years, XLRI is Organizing Placement "Week" at Bangalore for its 1-year full-time Executive MBA Programme (General Management Programme) from April 7-8, 2010 at DBS House, 26 Cunningham Road, Bangalore 560052 Tel: 080-40509200.

The one year GMP flagship programme of XLRI is one of the oldest executive MBA programmes being offered in the country, started in 1997. The average work-ex of the batch of 100 students is around 7.2 years, with half of the batch having average international experience of 2.8 years and the profile of students consisting of professionals from IT, Automobile sector, Banking, Power and Steel sector, Army and Doctors.

Given the nature of the group, the placement is a "rolling" one; so far more than 60 students are already placed, with companies such as Apollo, Tech Mahindra, Biocon, Infosys and Daimler, etc.

For any clarifications on the placement process, please contact:

gmpplacement@xlri.ac.in
or by calling members of GMP Placecom:
Dr Kailash L Jiyaldasani (+91-9973763211)
Prannoy Kumar (+91-9661080249)

Please also pass on the information to anyone you think may be interesting in these profiles

Ciao
madhukar

XLRI welcomes Author, Army Major for GMP Class of ‘08

Jamshedpur – XLRI, One of the oldest Management Institutes of Asia has welcomed students for GMP its one year full time General Management Program. The Institute has increased its intake from 60 to 100 this year following increased demand from corporate world.

The incoming class profile represents an interesting mix of students from diverse sectors. To name a few, a writer who has authored text books for Graduate studies and an Army major who has served on Indo-Pakistan border in Kashmir. The class has an average experience of 7 years with professionals from Shipping, Power Generation, Retail, R&D, Automobile, IT & Telecom, Indian Engineering services and many other sectors. This year only 2.5 % of the applicants could make it to the hallowed campus, making it one of the Asia’s toughest General MBA program to gain admission to.

What brings these elite professionals into this programme is the extent of learning offered through GMP & a chance to realize their true potential. As Captain Samir Ranjan, a student puts it “After having worked in shipping industry for 12 years I felt an MBA would add the right vigor & zest to my career. Nearly 40% of the class has worked on multiple international assignments, which adds a unique dimension to the learning of these participants.

The students represented middle to senior management in organizations such as General Motors, DRDO, WalMart, Suzlon, V-Ships, Alcatel-Lucent, NTPC, Cognizant, Infosys, Accenture, Oracle, TCS, SAP Labs, HAL, Mahindra and many more.

So, what’s on their plate for next 1 Year – they will brainstorm for solutions to the emerging challenges that businesses face in 21^st Century. The batch will also attend a 3 week International immersion program to learn nuances of International business. The outgoing batch had an average of 2 jobs per participant with an average domestic package of 17.8 lakhs and International package of $130000 per annum.

XLRI to double GMP intake for 2008-09

From The Financial Express

Jamshedpur, May 12 Premier B-school XLRI is set to double its intake of candidates for the one-year general management programme (GMP) course, from around 53 last year to over 100, for the 2008-09 academic session.

"XLRI is also planning to expand international exposure for the students through tieups with major universities across the globe," said Father Abraham, director XLRI, speaking at the graduation ceremony for the 2007-08 batch.

According to associate dean (GMP & defence programmes) Pranabesh Ray, the B-school had selected only 61 out of the 1,552 valid applications it had received for its 2007-08 GMP batch.

XLRI has been increasingly attracting managerial talent for its GMP course from across the country. The ratio of the number of applicants spurted 152% for the 2007-08 session.

The B-school has enriched its GMP course recently by reducing number of core courses to 14 by introducing long-duration courses for an integrated coverage of the subject. In addition, the number of optional courses has been increased from 12 to 16.

Besides focusing on basics as well as advanced concepts of management, the course also provides international exposure in the form of internship and projects.

XLRI's 53-student batch of 2007-08 session received 101 job offers from 54 Companies, as against 23 last year, in completion of their course.

The average salary of the batch for global and domestic assignments increased by 20 to 30% at $1,30,000 and Rs 17.8 lakh, respectively.

Recruiters lap up XLRI grads

From Business Standard

BS Reporter / Kolkata April 11, 2008

XLRI Jamshedpur’s general management programme (GMP), the one-year full-time executive MBA course, has concluded a successful season of placement for its 2008 batch.

The batch has been offered plum roles highlighting the potential of the participants for middle and senior management roles.

Nearly 30 per cent of the batch went for a change from their earlier work experience.

The placement process attracted 54 companies as opposed to 23 last year, and made 101 offers to 53 participating students. The average salary offer stood at Rs 17.8 lakh, an increase of close to 20 per cent from previous year.

The highest domestic offer was Rs 33.8 lakh and the average international offer was $130,000, an increase of 30 per cent over last year.

Sponsored candidates got elevated roles from their parent companies too.

The batch witnessed a good mix of participating companies from diverse sectors such as banking, energy, IT, Consulting, manufacturing, steel, real estate and telecom. ArcelorMittal, Reliance ADAG, Jindal Steel, DLF, Tata Communications, Cairn Energy, L&T were some of the major recruiters.

Participants from the consulting field were McKinsey, Accenture, IBM S&C, ICRA Management Consulting (IMACs), TCS Global Consulting, KSA Technopak. Axis Bank, SBI Capital, ICRA, UBS were some of the BFSI companies that turned up for recruitments.

According to Uday Damodaran, chairperson of the placements at XLRI, “With just two years of organised placement support from the institute, the one-year general management programme has firmly established itself as a source of quality talent for recruiters.”

There were a number of recruiters who personally expressed their extreme satisfaction with the quality of the participants. These positive comments reinforce our belief that we are doing things right as far as our one-year programme goes.”

The placement season was held during the second week of February at Mumbai followed by rolling placements in March at Jamshedpur.

Students also visited Australia as part of the international immersion module introduced this year.

From the next batch, the immersion module is expected to expand with the institute getting into tie-ups with major universities across the globe.

XLRI plans to increase the student intake from the next batch due to better response.

GMP batch of XLRI gets good offers from industry, salaries up

Jamshedpur, Apr 10 (Financial Express): XLRI has received an overwhelming response from the industry for its one-year full-time general management programme (GMP). Its batch of 53 participating students received 101 job offers from 54 Companies, as against 23 Companies last year.

The average salary of the batch, for global and domestic assignments, which stood at $1,30,000 and Rs 17.8 lakh respectively, is around 20% and 30% more than what the last GMP batch was offered.

The highest domestic offer made this year stood at Rs 33.8 lakh...(Offers made for) "posts like director, associate director, chief manager, managing consultant, strategic account manager offered to the candidates clearly highlight the potential of the participants."

The batch also witnessed a good mix of participating Companies from diverse sectors such as banking, energy, IT, consulting, manufacturing, steel, real estate and telecom, with Companies such as Arcelor-Mittal, Reliance ADAG, Jindal Steel, DLF, Tata Communications, Cairns Energy, L&T being some of the major recruiters.

Among the consulting firms participated in the recruitment process were McKinsey, Accenture, IBM S&C, ICRA Management Consulting (IMACs), TCS Global Consulting, KSA Technopak. Prominent banking & financial sector participants to pick up students were Axis Bank, SBI Capital, ICRA, etc.

IT/ITES majors HP, Cognizant, Satyam, Wipro, Inautix, Hexaware and Genpact also recruited according to their needs.

XLRI, which has plans to increase its student intake for its GMP from the next batch, also plans to include international options for students from the tieups the B-School has with major universities around the globe.

"With just two years of organised placement support from the institute, the GMP has firmly established itself as a source of quality talent for recruiters," said Uday Damodaran, XLRI placement chairperson, adding that a number of recruiters have personally expressed their satisfaction with the quality of the participants.

GMP students return from the International exposure module

Students of General Management Program (GMP) (2007-08) went to Graduate School of Business, RMIT Australia, for 3 weeks International exposure programme, launched in partnership with RMIT University, Australia.

The program involved two parts, the first being an overview of Australian business climate and industrial scenario.

The second part of the program involved internship in an Australian organization. The work placement was designed to enhance understanding of local business operations and provide Australian companies with an opportunity to gain valuable insights into doing business in India.

Renowned companies from a range of industry segments, like KPMG, Wackett Aerospace Center, CSIRO, Yoober and others participated in the process.

Commenting on the internship experience with XLRI students, Neil T Faulkner, Partner KPMG, said "The General Management Program students who spent time in our organisation in Melbourne were marvellous ambassadors for the program, XLRI, their previous employers, their Country and themselves. They demonstrated exceptional skill, commitment, knowledge, teamwork and global industry awareness."

Dr.Ron Harper, Director GSB, RMIT, who led this engagement with XLRI, said "The exercise is regarded by RMIT as an important grassroots engagement of Australian industry with the new economic superpower that is India."

The sponsored candidates from Tata Steel were sent for a similar stint to Corus, UK.

GMP is a one year full-time business management program for executives, who have had a prior work experience of five years or above.

GMPians in the Village

While a group of GMPians were managing rock climbing and assorted hurdles in the adventure trip, one other group was packed off for three days and two nights into the villages of Jharkhand. Not that they objected. After all most of them had come from different parts of the country and saw this as a good opportunity to get a first hand feel of Jharkhand.

The GMPians visited few villages outside the limits of Jamshedpur. The coordination and planning was done by NGO’s like Tagore Society of Rural Development, SEEDS, SPAR, MASS. The issues studied by the GMPians were water and sanitation, health facilities, livelihood pattern, literacy related issues, self-help groups, gender issues, farming and animal husbandry, environmental concerns, credit mechanism, consumption pattern and housing patterns.

The study illustrated the welcome progress which started to take place in the last few years in terms of empowering people and making them participate in the development process. Nevertheless, the lack of access to proper healthcare services, secondary and college education was striking. In the villages inhabited by the Sabar tribe, even primary education was a luxury which hardly few could afford.

GMPians returned from trip content with the study done but perhaps with a bigger discontent about the state of affairs of rural India and a resolve to do something more about this than being aware about it. Quite a few GMPians were already associated with NGOs and social organizations before joining XLRI and have fair experience in these activities. So they have more activities lined up on this front. As they say "Miles to Go.....".

From GMP Blog

Management on the Rocks : The GMP way

GMP Students at XLRI Learn Management Lessons on an Adventure Trip

XLRI Jamshedpur's General Management Program (GMP-1 Year MBA) students recently went on a three-day adventure trip co-ordinated by Tata Adventure Sports Foundation (TASF), Jamshedpur. This is a regular annual event to be taken up by all students.

This program aims to inculcate management lessons among the students the natural way. TASF, a professional body under dynamic leadership of Ms. Bachendri Pal, is engaged in organizing such adventure programs for corporates and institutions all over the country.

The three days trip involved students admiring the hardships of nature as well as actually tasting the same by means of several exciting management games which brought out their mental and physical prowess to the fore. The events included rock-climbing, caving, trenching, abseiling at a place near Jamshedpur and water rafting at Dimna Lake.

Ms. Bachendri Pal, the first Indian women to climb Mt. Everest, gave a pep talk to the students on leadership skills. She was all praise for the enthusiasm and high degree of involvement shown by the students. The trip ended with the event of water rafting at Dimna Lake and the names of the overall group members were announced by a senior TASF official. The trip was ended on a sweet note with recapitulations of learning spread over three days. GMP students were upbeat with the rigor and relevance of this program. Some of the learning's from the program include leadership skills, working in teams, building strategies, making optimal use of available resources, overcoming the fears of unknown, leadership, and introspection skills.

URL:http://www.coolavenues.com/bschools/070706/xlri-adventure-1.php

Posted by Team GMP at 8:44 PM

Industry laps up XLRI GMP batch

Industry laps up XLRI GMP batch

STATE BUREAU

Posted online: Monday, March 26, 2007 at 0216 hours IST

JAMSHEDPUR, MAR 25 : On-campus placements for the recently concluded XLRI general management programme (GMP) 2007 were witness to plum packages like an international offer of $1,00,000 made by an IT sector company. The highest domestic offer being a whopping Rs 35 lakh made by an RPG Group company, while the average annual salary of the batch worked out to Rs 15 lakh.

Jobs on offer were senior-level roles like head strategy, DGM finance, projects, and advisor investment banking, etc. Around 26 companies made 106 job offers to the 49 GMP students.

It was the first formal placement for GMP, a one-year course for managerial candidates with more than 3 years' industry experience, since its inception in 1997.

The information technology (IT & ITeS) sector lapped up 35% of the students, financial sector 30%, manufacturing 15%, telecom 10%, with the balance 10% picked up by consulting firms.

Companies like the ADAG Group, Atos Origin, Cognizant, Feedback Ventures, Godrej Consumer, ICICI, ICRA Management Consulting, Jindal Steel & Power, L&T, Mindtree Consulting, RPG Group, SBI Caps, Tech Mahindra, Tata Motors, among others, were the recruiters.

According to Fr N Casamir Raj, director, XLRI: "People coming to the course are with a minimum of five years' experience and the industry response towards recent GMP batches has been very good even at IIM Ahmedabad and the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad."

Encouraged by the response, the B-school has planned to raise the eligibility criteria for the programme from the minimum three years' experience at present to five years', from next year.

It would also, from 2008, accept GMAT candidates above a certain score, apart from selecting candidates through its own XAT. The number of seats too is going to go up marginally from 55 to 60.

XL's 1-Year full-timeMBA (aka GMP) Placements - FINAL Instalment

concluded last week in Mumbai at Hyatt (slot-free, open, flexible, rolling process)

49 students

26 companies

106 offers

Ave Salary: 15lacs

Highest Doemstic Salary: 35lacs

2 international placements

Highest internationalSalary: 100,000USD

Roles offered were like: Head-Stategy, DGM-Finance, Advisor-Investment Banking, DGM-Projects, etc....

Companies from diverse sectors like Investment banks, FMCG, Telecom, Banking, Management Consulting, Manufacturing, IT and ITES.

Firms such as ADAG Group, Atos origin, Cognizant, Feedback Ventures, Godrej Consumer, ICICI, ICRA Management Consulting, JSPL, L&T, Mindtree Consulting, RPG group, SBI Caps, Tech Mahindra, Tata Motors etc. participated in the placement process.

XL's 1-Year full-timeMBA (aka GMP) Placements

quoting from some mails that I found in my mailbox when I returned this evening:

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Day 1:
"An update on Day 1 of GMP placement at Mumbai (that has just concluded). The cumulative offers are now 21. The average offer should be close to Rs.11 lakhs. The highest offer of Rs.18 lakhs was rejected because the student already had an offer with much lesser salary but a role better suited to his liking!...

Day 2:
"Just concluded Day 2 of GMP process at Mumbai. At end of Day 2 we have 34 offers to 31 students leaving 18 students without an offer (actually 52 offers using PGP Placement definition, but in GMP process we acknowledge an offer only after the student is satisfied with the offer made; rejected offers are not termed 'offers'! Sorry for the terminological confusion!)

...There has been one Dollar Offer of USD 100,000 (is this a record for XLRI? I don't know. Old-timers should be able to say). The highest Rupee offer is Rs. 18 lakhs (is this a record for XLRI? Again, I don't know!). The 34 offers do not include another 5-6 offers for which full details are not available. When these details come in, most probably the Rs.18 lakhs offer will be topped (there have been two offers of Deputy General Managers for which the offer details are awaited).
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I think there will be more to report as we go on;0)

ciao
madhukar

XL's 1-Yr Full Time Exec-MBA - Candidates' Profile

Folks!

XL's One-Year full-time Executive MBA Program (They stay at campus for one year - actually 4 terms - and undergo 32 courses. ) is perhaps the oldest in the country - started on '96 or so.

However, this is the first year when XL is providing them with placement facilities (earlier a large number of people used to be sponsored by companies, when 2-3 years back the number of self-sponsored candidates started increasing - this year 50/55 in the batch are self-sponsored)

Given the profile of the batch - and their term timings (they finish in end-April, as compared to the day-batch who finish the course-work in end-Feb):

- their CRP is scheduled separately from the day-batch CRP,
- is staggered starting from Feb 20th, and
- will be held at XL, Kolkata and Mumbai over the next two month.

The over-all batch profile is as follows:

WORKEX:
3-4 yrs: 12%
4-5 yrs: 38%
5-6 yrs: 27%
6-8 yrs: 10%
>8 yrs: 13%

SECTORS:
Manufacturing 32%
IT/ITES 29%
Banking 15%
Power 8%
Infrastructure 6%
Telecom 6%
Others 4%

DOMAINS:
Operations: 38%
IT/ITES: 28%
Finance: 15%
Marketing: 15%
Others: 4%

EDUCATION:
Engineering: 77%
Science: 10%
Commerce: 6%
Humanities: 2%
Others: 5%

For those looking for junta with work-ex, hope this will help

ciao
madhukar