IIM Shillong completes summer placements with top stipend of Rs 2.5 lakh

MUMBAI: IIM Shillong's batch of 2016-18 has completed summer placements with a top stipend of Rs 2.5 lakh and an average total stipend of Rs 81,000, a jump of 17% from the previous year.
A total of 184 roles were offered across various functional domains. Sales & Marketing emerged as the most sought after domain with 36% of the total offers made to the candidates.
Recruiters such as Mahindra GMC, Aditya Birla Group, Google, Dabur, HSBC, Perfetti Van Melle, ICICI Bank, Amazon, Cognizant Business Consulting, Titan, GSK Pharmaceuticals, TATA Steel, Fidelity Management Research and Wipro visited campus along with a number of new recruiters including ITC, Deloitte S&O, Kohler, Beiersdorf (Nivea), Yes Bank, Piramal Enterprises, Cummins, VMware, Aviva Life Insurance, Lava, and Metlife.
Deloitte emerged as the largest recruiter in Consulting domain. HSBC made the maximum offers in the Finance domain while ITC, Tata Motors and Tata Steel made the highest number of offers in Sales & Marketing domain.
Apart from the increasing number of offers made in FMCG, Manufacturing & Retail sectors, the season also saw participation of sectors such as Healthcare and Social Sector offering Strategy and Development roles.