IIM Visakhapatnam students, will be participating in internship placement (SIP) on IIM Bangalore campus

NEW DELHI: The second batch of IIM Visakhapatnam, comprising 54 students, will be participating in the summer internship placement ( SIP) on IIM Bangalore campus. IIM Visakhapatnam students will be available for internship from 3rd April to 31st May, 2017. IIM Bangalore is mentoring IIM Visakhapatnam for all activities, including summer placements.

Every year, the first-year students of IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) are selected SIP, during the summer placement week, for a two-month internship in the months of April and May.

A release sent out by IIMB stated that a total of 407 students from IIMB’s batch of 2016-18 will be participating in summer internship 2017. Ganesh Prabhu, Chairperson, Career Development Services (CDS), IIMB, said, “The two-month summer internship has been appreciated by companies visiting the campus as it provides necessary professional exposure, making our graduates ideal candidates for taking up a range of challenging managerial roles.”

“Many organizations use the SIP as an opportunity for an in-depth assessment of our students and often extend Pre-placement Offers (PPOs) to their summer interns. Every year approximately 150 PPOs are made to the interning students in a variety of roles such as Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Sales & Marketing, Product Management and Supply Chain Management,” said Sapna Agarwal, Head of Career Development Services, IIM Bangalore.

The Summer Internship interviews for the batch of 2016-18 will be followed, over the next few months, by Final Placement Interviews for the PGP batch of 2015-17, comprising nearly 410 students from IIMB.