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Over 200 firms eyeing ISB graduates

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Hyderabad, Feb. 27

It’s placement time at Indian School of Business (ISB) and over 200 companies from diverse sectors have already commenced the process.

“Placements at the ISB have started and we are greatly encouraged by the strong response from the corporate world. An interesting trend, this year, is that real estate and healthcare companies, both in India and abroad, are recruiting students for senior roles,” Mr M. Rammohan Rao, Dean, ISB, said in a release.

The companies, whose number is expected to increase further before the placements come to a close by end March, are chasing 425 students from the Class of 2008.

A healthy mix of large corporate houses from all industries such as retail, real estate, finance, healthcare, investment banking, hospitality, pharma, insurance, re-insurance, airline, information technology are participating this year.

Speaking about the diversity in the placements, Ms Savita Mahajan, Associate Dean -Admissions, Career Services and Strategic Initiatives, said, “`Our focus has always been to increase the diversity in our student body. These efforts have been rewarded with both national and international companies coming to recruit the ISB graduates in a wide variety of domains and roles in India and 20 different countries across the globe.”

The companies which had already visited ISB include Goldman Sachs, British Petroleum, Deutsche Bank, Tishman Speyer, Mckinsey and Co, BCG, Barclays Bank, Google, Microsoft, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, CB Richard Ellis, Apollo Hospitals, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever and Bharti Group, among others.

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