Great Lakes Institute of Management on Thursday announced that 97 per cent of its Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) 2019 batch had received placement offers by the first week of January.

“This year, the placement season was highly successful with students getting placed much faster. The highlight of this season was a significant increase in offers for Strategy Consulting, Product Management, Digital and Analytics roles,” said M Balaji, Director, Corporate & Career Services, Great Lakes Institute of Management, in a press release.

Accenture, Aditya Birla Capital, ADP, Amazon, Barclays and Cognizant are some of the leading recruiters who offered roles to students in sectors such as Analytics, BFSI, IT/ITES, Consulting, e-commerce, Technology Consulting and FMCG.

IT/ITeS sector saw the highest recruitment at 37 per cent of the total, followed by Tech consulting at 23 per cent. Business consulting at 22 per cent and Banking Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) at 5 per cent respectively.

A multinational consulting firm offered the highest domestic cost to company (CTC) of ₹29 lakh per annum while average CTC of the current batch stood at ₹13.1 lakh per annum.

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