Pre-Placement offers(PPOS) could well be the flavour of the season at B-School campus this year 2009.With the markets showing down and companies increasing eagerness to get on board freshers who has already proved their mettle.It’s povring PPOS in premiere B-Schools across the country.To ensure that they get the best and the brightest, companies are not waiting for end of the session to pick B-School grades.
The country is the throes of a slowdown.The sub prime crisis in the US, runaway global crude oil prices and,in India, rising inflation have conspired to considerably dilute, it not wash away, the feel-good factor that was pervading the country till late last year.When the economy of the country is so fickle, what is the placement trend we are likely to witness this year in the B-Schools? If we go by the industry eaperts,the year 2008 saw a slowdown in the global economy ,but this has not affected the recruitment process of the bussiness schools in India.
The averages salary of this year was noted to have incresed by a marginal increase of 22%.The bussiness schools have been able to atract the best of companies be it domestic or internation.