Resurgence in Placement of Defence Officers with Corporate

Resurgence in Placement of Defence Officers with Corporate

With economy spiralling out of recession and recruitment on the rise, encouraging trend has been witnessed in placement of former Defence Officers in middle and senior level management positions.

The recently concluded batch from Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon have received over 85 percent placements, with Officers being placed in handsome packages ranging between Rs 14 and 24 lakhs. Corporates like ICICI Bank, L & T, Bartronics and many others have appointed Ex-Servicemen officers in diverse profiles of sales, marketing, logistics and supply chain, operations, human resource (recruitment) and administration. Bartronics emerged the single highest recruiter hiring 10 officers from the same batch. 

Inaugurating the brochure for the 3rd batch of defence officers undertaking the residential General Management Program from IIM Lucknow (Noida Campus) today Major General Pramod Behl, Director General Resettlement said that the specially designed curriculum would facilitate the Officers to craft their positions in industry with ease and prove to be a major asset to the corporate world. In addition to the leadership and dynamism, these officers bring tremendous experience, discipline and focused approach, due to their training with forces, he added. Management education equips these Armed Forces Officers with latest skills sought by corporate, Maj. Gen. Behl noted. 

IIM Lucknow (Noida Campus) batch has already commenced its placement process as the officers are due to culminate the course on 18 Dec. The IIML batch has developed its own website which can be visited at iiml.afp2010.com. Similar programmes are run in various reputed institutes but at intervening period.