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Autumns is Green with 200 offers for 175 PGDM participantsAugust 26-27, 2009‘ Autumn Placement Process’ for the PGDM batch of 2008-10 kicked off amid fears and speculation on the jobscenario in these turbulent times and its impact on B-school placements. But the fears soon melted away asSPJIMR effortlessly placed its 175 participants.The placement process, spread over 26th and 27thAugust, ended with participants being offered projectswith reputed companies across sectors like Consulting,Banking, IT, Investment Banking, FMCG, Private Equity,Manufacturing, Healthcare & Pharma-ceuticals, Telecomand Media. More than 60 companies visited the campusover the two days of the 'autumns' process. TataAdministrative Services (TAS), Microsoft, Citibank, GSK,Tata Capital, Reckitt Benckiser, P&G, HUL, L'Oreal , Marico,Nestle, Intel, J&J Consumer, Wipro, SAP, GE, Edelweiss, SBICapital, Axis Bank, HT Media, Dabur, Bank of Bahrain andKuwait, Barclays, HSBC, Development Bank of Singapore,and Frost & Sullivan were few of them. There were morethan 200 offers made to the batch of 175.In contrast to other business schools sending themanagement participants for Summer Internships, SPJIMRpioneered the concept of 'Autumns' wherein the two yearfull time PGDM participants are mandated to undergocorporate internship during September and October in thesecond year of the program. SPJIMR reserves the summersfor social projects with NGOs.Autumns 2009 at a Glance Total Offers Made: 200+ Offers Accepted: 175 Average Offers per participant: 1.14 Participating Companies: 60+PGPM Class of 2009 Secures 100% ALP PlacementAugust 24, 2009The fifth batch of SPJIMR’s eleven-month Post GraduateProgramme in Management (PGPM) secured impressive100% placements during ALP (Application of LearningProgramme) The class of 2009 comprises 55 participantshaving average work experience of six years .The companies that hired participants for the ALPprogramme were Agility Logistics, Aqua MCG, BAeHAL,Conjoin Group, Frost & Sullivan, IDFC, ITC, John Deere, KPITCummins, KPMG, L&T HED, L&T Infotech, Loop Mobile,Mobisoc, OTIS, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Siemens,Spanco Telesystems, Spice Digital and Zycus. Theplacement process saw offers from traditional sectors suchas Information technology, telecom, finance andmarketing as well as emerging sectors such as corporatestrategy, project finance and supply chain.Consulting, market research, marketing and finance weresome of the areas in which the participants securedprojects with various roles such as IT consulting, supplychain consulting, management consulting and logisticsconsulting. Five participants secured international ALPprojects in association with Reutlingen University inGermany.ALP is a unique programme in the PGPM curriculum thatSpread of ALP across sectorsConsultingMarket ResearchMarketingOverseas InternshipCorporate StrategyFinanceFMCG/ Supply ChainProject Financeaims to strengthen the industry-academia relationship. Aspart of ALP, participants undertake full-time projects atcompany premises for a period of six weeks. During thisperiod, the participants take up challenging projects andcompanies leverage on the rich experience of participantsacross diverse domains. At the end of the term, thecandidates present a report to the company.4SPJIMRnews