18 Special Feature Indias Top Recruiters

Top recruiters hired

fewer students in 2013. In 2011: the top recruiter ICICI Bank hired more than 180 students. This years top recruiter hired less than half of that number

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The mix of sectors

in the top 10 recruiter list remains almost the same in the past few years. Infosys (2011) and IBM (2012) are two biggies missing from this years list

Companies like
Goldman Sachs used social media aggressively to woo top talent. It upgraded its web-based content & launched a global app

Non-Indians
at global B-schools like Insead, Wharton are showing an interest in doing India stints with companies like BCG

65 80
F OUT O

companies
were rst-time recruiters at IIM Rohtak that placed its second batch. In percentage terms, it is 81.25%

10%

students opted
for a career in sunrise sectors like pharma, healthcare, e-commerce and education at IIM Shillong. This is a rst for the institute

India Inc Woos Millennials

A few aggresive companies are going all out to attract talent even in a slowdown, as data from 21 top B-schools shows. There were quite a few surprises this year, and new entrants upstaged older players in this war
List Of Top 10 Recruiters At Each Of The Top 10 B Schools
IIM AHMEDABAD
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

IIM BANGALORE
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

Boston Consulting Group Accenture Airtel McKinsey & Co. Capgemini Bain & Company Goldman Sachs Amazon
* IIMA shared top 8 because too many were tied at the 9th & 10th spot, it said.

15 13 11 10 10 9 7 7

Boston Consulting Group Amazon Goldman Sachs McKinsey & Co. HSBC Microsoft TCS Mahindra & Mahindra Cognizant

12 10 10 10 9 8 7 7 7

IIM CALCUTTA
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

The 10th spot was shared by AT Kearney, Aditya Birla Group, Bharti Airtel, Capgemini, IBM Consulting and Kotak Mahindra (6 offers each)

IIM LUCKNOW
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

Bharti Airtel EXL Service Reliance HSBC Amazon Bain & Company Boston Consulting Group ICICI Bank Procter & Gamble Royal Bank of Scotland

11 11 10 9 8 7 7 7 7 7

Cognizant Deloitte Consulting Hindustan Unilever Capgemini Latent View Boston Consulting Group Procter & Gamble Bharti Airtel Accenture Ernst & Young

14 13 12 11 11 9 8 8 7 7

IIM SHILLONG
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

XLRI
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

Infosys Cognizant HSBC Deloitte Daimler Yes Bank Nomura JP Morgan Chase Citibank Ranbaxy

9 8 6 4 4 3 2 2 2 2

ITC Bharti Airtel ICICI Bank Standard Chartered Wipro Mahindra & Mahindra Capgemini Axis Bank Cognizant PwC

13 12 10 10 10 9 8 7 7 6

FMS, DELHI
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

IIFT, DELHI
12 11 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

of candidate performance, retention rates and their overall progress, says Padmanabhan. NEW DELHI | MUMBAI BCG, which hired more than rival he IT services sector is per- McKinsey, made the most of the slowhaps the worst hit by global down. There were fewer offers from economic turbulence over the others. For a consulting firm like ours, past few years. But when one people are the raw material. We are hircompany from this industry ing more, says Sachin Nandgaonkar, hires more MBAs from 21 top B-schools senior partner and director at Boston than any other company across all Consulting Group. sectors, you know it is doing something BCG, which was also the top recruiter right. Cognizant, number one in Indias at IIM-A, B and C, is now looking beTop Recruiters list this year, also yond. We also recognise that there are featured in the top ten in the previous other bright people who for some reatwo years. son have not made it to IIMs. We would It hires one MBA for every 20-25 tech like to see if that talent gets attracted to professionals and this, the company be- BCG, says Nandgaonkar. lieves, is the best way to beat the indusThe firm also hired five Indiantry-wide slowdown. origin graduates from Insead, The Our industry-leading growth is, in Wharton School, and Kellogg School of part, a function of our Management. We ability to proactively are seeing non-IndiINDIA'S TOP RECRUITERS 2013 provide solutions to ans at these B schools RANK business problems wanting to do India and not just techstints as it is an addiCognizant 83 1 nological capabiltion to the resume, Capgemini (new) 70 2 ity. This attribute is says Nandgaonkar. Deloitte 68 3 strengthened by our For Goldman Sachs, MBA talent, says R the lone investment Wipro 68 3 Cha nd raseka ra n, bank among the top Bharti Airtel 53 5 group chief execu10 recruiters, this ICICI Bank 49 6 tive, technology and year was the most operations. aggressive in recent Accenture 48 7 At Cognizant, MBAs memory. Says Bunty TCS (new) 47 8 undertake a varied B oh r a , M D : We spectrum of roles have been growing BCG 43 9 such as IT consulting, over the past seven Goldman Sachs (new) 38 10 client relationship to eight years and management, busiare expanding the ness development, opportunity assess- breadth of our internship experience. ment, M&A, business integration and Goldman Sachs visited 65-plus campusanalytics. The company hired more than es this year, and Bohra himelf visited 200 MBA students from the 2013 graduat- more campuses than ever. ing batch. The firm used social media aggresAnd it is not done hiring yet. sively to woo top talent. It significantly We now have several groups within upgraded its web-based content to comour Emerging Business Accelerator municate with the generation of millenbusinesses, looking for MBA talent for nials and also launched a global career their ventures, says Chandrasekaran. app in February 2013. If we are not conET reached out to the countrys top necting where the future of workforce 21 B-schools and compiled hiring data is, we are not doing it right, says Bohra. from over 119 companies to put toAirtels hiring numbers have regether the third edition of Indias Top mained the same, but this year, it Recuiters List. reviewed the campuses it visits. We Capgemini, a new entrant in this have made our list crisp, says Krish list, made it all the way to the number Shankar, executive director, H R two slot. We doubled our B-school at Bharti Airtel. The company also hire intake this year, says Rajesh picked some young leaders for its overPadmanabhan, head, HR. We engage seas operations in Africa from campuses with a few campuses and keep review- this year. (With inputs from Anumeha Chaturvedi) ing this list based on our experience
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List Of Top 5 Recruiters At Remaining Institutes

IIM UDAIPUR
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

IIM ROHTAK
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

BPCL Quikr GE UAE Exchange Bajaj Auto

4 4 3 3 3

Cognizant Technology Solutions7 Prudent Insurance Brokers 6 Relaxo Footwear Mother Dairy Shriram City 6 5 4

IIM TIRUCHIRAPALLI
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

IIM RAIPUR
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

IBM Vedanta Group Hero Motocorp Usha International BPCL E&Y HT Media ICICI Bank Infosys BPO

4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Cognizant Business Consulting 4 KPMG Pernt Healthcare BPCL Indian Bank Berger Paints 4 4 4 4 4

IIM RANCHI
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

Yes Bank RITES

Dubai petrochemical rm France Sports Retail Firm HT Media Hero Motocorp ICICI Bank ING Vysya IOCL ICRM

5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3

DMS IIT, DELHI

COMPANY NAME OFFERS

GE Wipro HP Deloitte IBM Cognizant

6 6 6 5 4 4

MDI, GURGAON
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

IIT BOMBAY SJSOM

COMPANY NAME OFFERS

TCS KPMG Wipro Deloitte ICICI Bank Goldman Sachs Accenture

17 13 12 11 11 10 10

Wipro Accenture Amazon JPMC Idea Procter & Gamble

9 7 5 5 4 4

Capgemini ITC Deloitte Vodafone BPCL Bharti Airtel Mahindra & Mahindra Nestle Amex Standard Chartered

HCL Goldman Sachs Cognizant Interglobe Tata Steel Google TCS

15 8 7 7 7 6 6

Goldman Sachs is making efforts to understand generational diversity. The changes in strategy are governed by constant conversations with stakeholders like interns, campus hires, their preferences, styles, and so on.

XIMB
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

IIM, KASHIPUR
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

Deloitte US & Human Capital 21 TCS Cognizant Wipro Exilant Indian Oil 17 12 11 10 7

ICICI Bank BPCL ICICI Prudential Hero Motocorp KD Logistics Nippon Electric Co India

3 3 2 2 2 2

Bunty Bohra, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

While we hire from the top B-schools, we also recognise that there are other bright people who for some reason have not made it to IIMs. We would like to see if that talent gets attracted to BCG.

The 8th spot was shared by Indian Oil, Sharaf Group, Flipkart, Infosys, KPIT Cummins, STC (5 offers each)

NMIMS
COMPANY NAME OFFERS

SP Jain Institute of Management Research

COMPANY NAME OFFERS

FMS BHU

Wipro Cognizant BC Capgemini Accenture CRISIL HDFC Bank JP Morgan GE KPMG Idea

20 13 10 9 9 8 8 7 7 7

GE Capgemini Deloitte 3M Hindustan Unilever Kraft Google TAS HCCB Procter & Gamble

8 7 7 6 6 6 5 5 4 4

Sachin Nandgaonkar, Senior Partner and Director,

Boston Consulting Group

The War for Talent at the top 3 IIMs

COMPANY NAME HIRES FROM IIM A, B, C

COMPANY NAME

OFFERS

ICICI Bank UCO Bank Ansal API LIC HFL Matrix Fertilizers

8 7 7 5 4

While our consulting business has been the biggest recruiter of management graduates, we now have several groups within our Emerging Business Accelerator businesses that are looking for MBA talent for their ventures.

BCG Bharti Airtel Amazon McKinsey & Co HSBC

34 28 25 20 18

R Chandrasekaran, Group Chief Executive, Technology and Operations, Cognizant

DATA COLLATED BY Sreeradha D Basu, Rica Bhattacharyya, Anumeha Chaturvedi, Devina Sengupta and Shreya Biswas