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IIM-Lucknow gets record number of offers
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008, 01:44 IST |
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Lucknow: Amid tough economic situation across the world, a record number of companies have marched IIM-Lucknow (IIM-L) to obtain young talents in the campus. The institute's summer placement of 2010 batch has witnessed the participation of 110 companies over 94 companies last year. The students showed enthusiasm for working with start-up firms.
IIM-L sources said the 2010 batch has the unique feature of having 92 percent of students with work experience and a number of them exhibited great enthusiasm for working with start-ups and utilizing their experience to help guide these budding organizations to success.
"The students here have experience which start-ups value and all the projects there would be live projects, which would decide future course and orientation of these organizations," said, Shashank Mehta, Student placement coordinator, IIM-L.
More than 20 start-ups from various sectors, including Inkfruit, Rupeetalk, Redbus, Lifeblob, Netprice, Netprice, Merit Trac, Great Place to Work Institute, and Elements Akademia have participated in the summer placements.
An Entrepreneurship Day was also organized as part of placements to nurture entrepreneurial talent of students. "IIML had been a breeding ground for many a great entrepreneur in the past and this year's batch had several entrepreneurs as students," said Prof Sushil Kumar, Chairman, IIML Placements."The confluence of alumni and current students gave us the confidence of starting this great initiative," he added.