IIM-A students find few takers this year

AHMEDABAD: Job offers received by their seniors made headlines till last year, but students of India's most valued B-school IIM-A are this year feeling the ripples of economic slowdown with offers few and far between.

Five days after the placement campaign was launched, some students are yet to receive offers, said sources in the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, an A-list business school.

A placement session usually lasts for five days. "The placement session this year is expected to last a little longer," placement committee head at IIM-A Prof Saral Mukherjee told reporters.

He, however, would not tell how long the institute will keep the placement window open or how many students are waiting for offers.

A source said: "Slot zero of current year final placements got underway at IIM-A on February 25, whereas it got started on March 6 last year and the students got placements with domestic and international firms within short span of five days."

But IIM-A Director Samir Barua dismissed any signifiance to the extension, saying: "In routine course every year placements are held even after the five day schedule, its nothing new."