Consulting:
Consulting firms made 37% offers this year, making ISB a preferred choice. Almost all the top tier strategy, operation and technology consulting companies made their presence felt and made a total of 755 acceptable offers cutting across strategy, technology, transactional and operational consulting space – indicating a high number of opportunities available for students who wish to make a beginning in consulting companies immediately post ISB. Top Consulting firms that made offers included the likes of McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company India Pvt. Ltd., Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte India, Deloitte USI, Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Kearney, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC AC, ZS Associates, KPMG, Alvarez and Marsal India Private Limited, LEK Consulting, Arthur D. Little, EY Parthenon Strategy MENA, EY India, among others. Dalberg and Samagra, in the social consulting space, continued their presence at ISB.
BFSI:
Top private and MNC banks such as Axis Bank, Credit Suisse, First Rand Bank, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo among others vied for talent from ISB and gave a good number of offers. Investment Banks like Ambit, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company, Merisis Advisors evaluated students from ISB. PE/ VC firms like Gaja Advisors, Matrix Partners, W Health Ventures continued to hire from ISB. Companies within the Financial services domain like MasterCard, Nomura and Tresvista Financial Services, also upcoming FinTechs made offers for specialized roles such as Investment Advisory, Research, Relationship Management, Product Management etc. This year almost 9.78% of the total offers have come from the BFSI segment. This includes non-BFSI firms hiring for finance roles from ISB. The roles that ISB graduates landed were as diverse as Corporate Finance, Treasury, Private Banking, Investment Management, Investment Banking, Chief of Staff, EA to CXOs and Fintech.
IT/ITES/Technology, Product and E-Commerce:
Marquee names and startups in the domain of Payment Solutions, Analytics, HealthTech, Education, AgriTech, Retail, and others continued robust hiring in Technology and Product Management space from the campus. Almost 26% of total offers came from IT/ITES/Technology, Product and E-Commerce space. Some prominent names that hired in this space are Google, Microsoft, Flipkart, Uber, Cisco, Tata Digital, Jio Platforms, RazorPay, Myntra, Ola Electric, Zynga, Nykaa, Dream11 and Paytm were among diverse E-commerce, Gaming and Technology companies that offered multiple roles – Product, Sales, Project Management, Strategy and Operations within the tech space.
General Management, Sales and Marketing and Healthcare:
Conglomerates such as Aditya Birla Group, RIL, JSW Group, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steels India and Adani Enterprises continued to engage with ISB for their prestigious leadership/management trainee programs with roles ranging from management trainees to executive assistants to CXOs. 5% offers came from the pharma/healthcare space. Besides sales and marketing, some of the top FMCG MNCs picked up lateral talent from ISB in functions such as supply chain, operations, strategy, and finance. FMCG / FMCD giants such as HUL, Procter and Gamble, ITC, AB InBev, L’Oreal, Samsung rolled out offers to our students.
