If your score is good in XAT, you will get the call. It is also good because the marks have a good amount of weightage in the final selection.

Most probably, you will be questioned if you have low grades in any of the examinations and all you need to do is, just satisfy the interviewers and prove to them that you are a good candidate and this would be enough to get you through.

If you have a score anywhere above 99.9 Percentile, you will get a call from XAT. You are much more than your mark sheets and XLRI values such things which are beyond scores.

A dream company depends upon your choice and where your interest lies. Typically, HR Consulting, IR, Manufacturing, or Line HR Roles are more popular.

• If you are interested in HR Consulting then Hay group, Accenture consulting are considered a dream as both of these companies pay significantly higher than other companies like Mercer or Hewitt. 

• If your interest lies in IR or Manufacturing then FMCG companies like P&G, Unilever, ITC, Asian Paints, etc should be your dream companies.

• If you are interested in Line HR or corporate HR only then Novartis, Stan Chat, Microsoft, or other big banks and the Software or product based companies etc. are considered dream companies. Novartis offered their position in Switzerland so it was a dream for many students. 

Despite this, some students may be more interested in joining startups and building systems from scratch than in joining existing companies.

Yes, you might be able to get into UIET Chandigarh with a JEE Main rank of 74,000. The most likely branch that you will get into as a general category is ECE, EEE, or Mechanical. Things will change if you belong to a reserved category student and you might be able to score a seat in CSE. 

Here is the latest required cutoff for UIET.

Based on this ranking, the hostel is only allocated in biotechnology and engineering without the hostel in Chandigarh is costly, so try to get into the hostel. Other than this, some private hostels will give you everything essential, but they come at a huge cost. 

The faculty is world-class and you will get to learn a lot. The program works in partnership with SHRM so that you can also communicate directly with industry experts.

The program offers detailed modules on career and succession planning coaching and mentoring, etc. There will be many practical assignments involving various aspects of talent management in everyday life. 

I have a friend who did this program and benefited from it. The addition of the XLRI name in your CV is definitely one of the advantages of this program. As helpful as this program is, it may not matter much in terms of your promotion or next job switch. 

My elder brother is an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur so he can hopefully answer your question to your satisfaction.

Most of the top-tier B-schools have a similar fee structure. For the 2021 batch, the fees for various courses are listed below:

The hostel fees for both female and male students at XLRI Jamshedpur are as high as 90,000 INR. The monthly hostel fee is 2,000 INR.

My cousin is an alumnus of NITIE and has spent two years in the institute as a student. His opinion is based on professional experience and may not be true for summer and final placements at SJMSOM and XLRI.

• Companies consider students with good grades as an equivalent proxy to dedication at the workplace, and the ability of the students to analyze critically and intensively.
• The merit required for the consideration is open to question and/or debate. Marks obtained in high school and graduation usually serve as filter criteria for filtering out worthy students from hundreds of them.
• Experience in work in domain and years or the lack of it and the college you completed your undergraduate degree from matter in a few cases.
• It is wrong to say that one of these matters will nullify and get you a place in the shortlist for the subsequent selection rounds.

A counter-argument can turn up claiming that the companies do not look at the scores. It is up to the students concerned to follow this notion.

One of my friends was a former student of XLRI. Here is his input about some of the XLRI alumni in Human Resource Management who have obtained top positions in several companies,

• Abhijit Bhaduri: Former HR Director of PepsiCo International, and Chief Learning Officer at Wipro
• Anil Jalati: CHRO Capgemini India
• Aquil Busrai: Executive Director HR of the IBM Group 
• Gautam Ghosh: Director of Talent Branding in Flipkart; well-renowned blogger 
• Gurveen Singh: Area HRD, Developing Market, RB 
• Kaizad Sethna: VP Group HR at Tata Sons Ltd. 
• Krish Shankar: Group Head of Human Resources at Infosys Bengaluru Area
• Leena Nair: Chief HR Officer at Unilever 
• Manoj K Sinha: VP of HR IDEA CELLULAR LTD (East) 
• Nidhi Kajaria: Head of Human Resources for International Banking & SME. Head of Compensation & Benefits 
• Prabir Jha: Global Chief People Officer at Cipla 

There are several others to name, like R Sridhar (Executive VP), Saurabh Govil (Senior Vice President), Varadarajan Srinivasan (CHRO & Head of Corporate Affairs), Vivek Tripathi (CHRO), Sonali Roy Chowdhury (HR Director). 

Besides HRM, courses like Marketing, Finance, and Operations also saw various alumni that are at the top level of Fortune 500 companies. Some among many have inaugurated their own start-ups and have also made successful products.