Top MBA Employers in India

Though there are number of companies in India which participate actively during campus interview, it is the e-commerce and consulting firms that steal the show. The current job scenario in India offers quality personnel. 88% companies in India look up candidates with prior industry experience and fresh graduates while 79% global companies intend to go for hiring MBAs. The emerging and most preferred companies students look for are the ones in consulting, technology, and finance domains.

The recruitment scenario is also ruled by the e-commerce boom worldwide. E-commerce giants such as Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra, and Expedia together offer a total number of 28% jobs alone in 2012 and making similar offers in the recent past. Also the scenario at premier B-schools like IIM-A has seen 29% offers in consulting, 20% in finance and 14% in IT in the same period. The story also remains same in another premier institute Indian School of Business, ISB which has witnessed 30% offers in consulting, followed by 28% in IT/ITES and 4% in finance.

In consulting segment the largest recruiters which contribute 274 offers from 33 companies including A T Kearney, Accenture, Booz & Co, Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Global eProcure, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Oliver Wyman, Parthenon, PwC, Siemens Management Consulting, and ZS Associates among others. The E-Commerce sector made the second largest number of offers on campus.  Total 142 offers were made by 15 companies such as Amazon, Bluestone Jewellery, BookMyShow, Flipkart, Myntra, Snapdeal and Quikr among others.

Other functionalities such as Consulting, General Management/Strategic Planning and Sales & Marketing were the most preferred areas from the Class of 2015 attracting 20%, 16% and 11% of students respectively from another top notch institutes in India. These companies also have shown a trend in hiring nearly 30% of the class comprising women students those were offered strategic roles such as Country Head, Country Manager, DGM, EA to CEO and General Manager among others.

Another company that encourages women employment is Axis Bank through its ‘Women Leadership Programme’. With an intention to promote women emancipation, Axis bank rolls out its women centric placement drives at these B-schools to recruit talent.

In a recent report it was recorded that IT/ITES, BFSI and Pharma and healthcare sectors made up for 25% of the total offers jointly. The emerging markets sentiment also had a role of its own to play and made huge offers on campus last year with number of international offers. Another trend that is seen is the participation of African companies that make some news in terms of pay packages.

Students from ISB with prior international exposure had got the bigger share of the pie; their experience of handling emerging markets make them most sought after candidates for companies which were looking for eligible candidates for global positions. International roles offered include locations such as Singapore, The Middle East, Africa and Europe.