Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) - JAMSHEDPUR

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) - JAMSHEDPUR

Introduction

Xavier Labour Relations Institute, widely known as XLRI was born out of the vision of a Jesuit Priest, father Quinn Enright. It was founded in 1949 in the Steel city of Jamshedpur, Bihar. Over the last few decades, XLRI Jamshedpur has contributed its best to the professional growth and management of innumerable institutions that serve the public, especially organized industry, labour, service agencies engaged in rural development, education, health and other public systems. Besides the focus on developing managerial competence among the pupils through acquisition of specialized knowledge and skills, the Institute emphasizes the importance of developing a sense of social justice with right attitudes and values of discipline, dedication and commitment among all its members.

Programs

Postgraduate Programmes In PM & IR And BM

The two-year full-time Postgraduate Programme in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (PM & IR) / Business Management (BM) prepares a student for a career in industry and services.

The PM&IR Programme facilitates learning in modern concepts, techniques and practices in the management of human resources and exposes the student to different functional areas of management to enhance the effectiveness.

Since the PMIR programme is a specialized programme in itself, there are no separate Areas for Concentration. Students are required to choose 18 electives from the courses offered to them.

The BM Programme facilitates learning in theory and practice of different functional areas viz. Economics, Finance, General Management, Information Systems, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behaviour, Personnel Management & Industrial Relations and Strategic Management, to equip the students with an integrated approach to management function and managerial skills.

Specializations

Finance, information systems, marketing, operations management and strategic management are offered for specialization.

The courses are designed to develop:

The analytical, problem solving and decision making abilities,

The awareness of the socio-economic environment, and

The personality with socially desirable values and attitudes.

Towards these objectives and to suit the contents of each course, a variety of teaching methodologies such as case studies, role-play, problem solving exercises, group discussion, computer simulation games, audio-visuals, are used in the programme.
The (PM & IR) / BM Programme consists of 41 three-credit courses (23 core courses and 18 elective courses) and a Summer Project.

Admissions

Each year in August, XLRI invites applications for admission to its programs through advertisements in major newspapers and magazines in the country as well as through announcements displayed in major universities and colleges.

The Admissions process involves the following:

XLRI Admissions Test
To get admission to XLRI, candidates have to appear for XLRI Admissions Test .
To register for XAT, candidates have to fill the XAT Form that is available online at www.xlri.edu/xat. Once the candidate logs on to this site, a full set of instructions will appear. The candidate can obtain his/her ID and password by following these instructions. This ID and password are to be indicated for all the future correspondence with the XAT Office, Jamshedpur.

Application to XLRI
The application form to apply for XLRI is available only online at http://www.xlri.edu. Once the candidate logs on to this site, a full set of instructions will appear guiding the candidates to register for admission to XLRI.


Eligibility

For PM & IR and BM programmes, graduates who have completed three years of Bachelor's degree in any discipline as well as the postgraduates in any discipline are eligible to apply. Those completing their final examination by June 15, 2005 may also apply.

Program for International Student Exchange at XLRI (POISE)

Established in 1949, XLRI has been at the forefront of management education ever since. Equipped with excellent faculty, state of the art infrastructure and an updated curriculum, the institute continues to groom managers for the future.
The Exchange Program delivers the extra edge in competitiveness by giving the students a broader perspective and the chance to collaborate with diverse people while learning in a different, challenging environment

Placements

XLRI Placed on Day Zero
124 students, 67 recruiters, 9 hours, 100% placements - These numbers sum up the Campus Recruitment Process (CRP) at XLRI, Jamshedpur this year. The batch of 2004 has had record-breaking placements with the entire batch bagging great offers in a matter of few hours. The economy may be doing well, the sensex may be at an all time high and the much touted "feel good factor" may be at play; even so, the fabulous results at XLRI have far exceeded all expectations.

Getting back to more statistics, the highest salary offered this year is by Coke, the figure being Rs. 8.78 Lakhs.
The average salary figure of the batch of 2004 is Rs. 7.14 Lakhs.
A total of 162 offers were made which means that the candidates had multiple offers to choose from. The standard deviation for the compensation figure is 0.85 lakhs with the lowest salary figure being 4.2 Lakhs.

The Placement Secretary for CRP 2004, Harshvardhan Singh said, "The upbeat mood in the economy has been reflected in the recruitments at XLRI this year, with phenomenal placements across all sectors. As expected, the IT and the FMCG sector are tied at the top with 32 accepted offers each. CRP 2004 is a grand success."

The top recruiter is Wipro, which recruited 10 candidates, followed by Accenture, which picked up 8. The IT/ITES sector comprising Cognizant Technology Solutions, IBM, Wipro, Infosys, HCL, TCS and vCustomer among others was the top recruiter taking 47 students. Consulting firms, which included PwC, E&Y, Ma Foi, Hewitt Associates made over 20 offers. Banks and financial institutions like JP Morgan Chase, Standard Chartered, Citibank, AIG, ICICI, ABN AMRO, SBI, SBI Caps, UTI Bank, ICICI PruLife picked up 18 candidates. FMCG majors - HLL, ITC, Britannia, Colgate Palmolive, Reckitt Benckiser, GSK, Coke, Pepsi - picked up 32 students. Major recruiters from the Core sector like Murugappa, TAS, Aditya Birla Group saw 13 offers being accepted. The Class of 2004 at XLRI saw 20-odd PPOs and more than 30 Lateral Offers being accepted.

Areas of placement

Marketing 8 per cent, IT 20 percent, HR 29 per cent, banks/FI 25 per cent, consulting 22 per cent.

Correspondence

Web address: www.xlri.edu
Contact address: Xavier Labour Relations Institute
Circuit House Area (East), Jamshedpur, PIN – 831 001,
Jharkhand.
Phone numbers: 91–57–25506 (Extn. 20)
91–657–225517 (Direct)


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