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    XLRI completes final placements with median salary of Rs 29 lakh, top salary of Rs 1.1 crore

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    XLRI successfully concluded its Final Placements for the PGDM 2023-25 batch with a median salary of Rs 29 lakh. Despite market challenges, the highest international offer reached Rs 1.1 crore. Top recruiters were from consulting, BFSI, and sales & marketing domains, with 41 new recruiters participating.

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    XLRI has completed its Final Placements for the PGDM (BM) and PGDM (HRM) Batch of 2023-25, with a median salary of Rs 29 lakh, the institute said in a statement on Thursday.

    A total of 591 students from XLRI Jamshedpur and XLRI Delhi NCR campuses participated in the process, with 172 recruiters extending over 600 offers, including two international offers. There were 41 new recruiters.
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    Despite challenging market conditions, the top 10% of the batch secured an average salary of Rs 52.03 lakh and the top 25%, Rs 44.35 lakh. The highest international offer stood at Rs 1.1 crore, while the highest domestic package touched Rs 75 lakh.

    The placement season witnessed 34.17% of students receiving Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs). Consulting, BFSI and Sales & Marketing emerged as the top recruitment domains, with leading firms such as Accenture Strategy, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), EY Parthenon, PwC India, Reliance and Kotak Mahindra Bank making the highest number of offers.

    Consulting was the top recruiters with 26% of the batch bagging roles with firms including McKinsey, BCG, Bain & Co, Accenture Strategy, EY Parthenon, Kearney, PwC, IPAC, Infosys, Aon, KPMG and others.

    The BFSI sector took 22% of students, who were placed in roles across Goldman Sachs, Citi, Axis Bank, HDFC Ergo, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Barclays, Deutsche, NatWest, NPCI, Standard Chartered, HSBC, MasterCard, Policy Bazaar and others.

    Around 18% of students joined the sales and marketing sector, across companies like AbinBev, Adani Wilmar, Amul, Dabur, Godrej, HUL, ITC, Nestle, P&G, Philip Morris Int’l, Samsung, Tata Consumer Products, Asian Paints, Mondelez, Nestlé, Kraft Heinz and L’Oréal in brand management and marketing roles.

    In ITES, E-commerce & Tech, companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, FedEx, American Express, NoBroker, Meesho, Ola, Zomato, Vivo, UKG, DarwinBox, Genpact, Doubletick and many others hired for roles in Product Management, Analytics and Digital Strategy.

    From general Management & PSUs, organisations including Aditya Birla Group (ABG), Capgemini, Reliance, TAS, Mahindra, Vedanta, JSW, L&T, BPCL, CPCL, GAIL, IOCL, IREDA, ONGC SPM Port and other PSU & firms recruited for strategic leadership roles.

    XLRI maintained its strength in the HR recruitment domain, with firms such as Amazon, Asian Paints, Bajaj Auto, Colgate Palmolive, Fedex, Flipkart, HDFC Ergo, Ola, Reliance, ABG, Accenture TAP, Airtel, HUL, ITC, Sun Pharma, Tata Steel, Tata Electronics, Vedanta, etc. hiring in HR Consulting, Compensation & Benefits, HR Analytics and Chief of Staff Roles.

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