Careers in India

In 2023/24, LSE Careers is launching a new Careers in India programme. A highlight of the programme is our flagship Careers in India event that will take place in April 2024 in Mumbai. Featuring LSE alumni and employer representatives from a range of sectors, the event will give you the opportunity to hear more about different sectors, ask questions, and network with alumni and employers seeking to hire LSE graduates. Employers attending usually include those offering internships and graduate roles.

Now available: Please see the 'organisations' section below for more information on the organisations you can meet at Careers in India 2024. Here's a snapshot:

Careers in India employers

What's on: Browse and book Careers in India events

This year’s Careers in India events will take place across Autumn and Winter Term. Once events are published, you'll be able to browse what’s on and book your place on the events in the feed below: 

Want to see all the details in one place? View all upcoming Careers in India events on CareerHub.

Organisations: Check out which organisations are attending this year’s events

Organisations you can meet at Careers in India 2024 include:

  • Athena Education

Represented by Riddhi Gupta, Senior Associate – People & Culture, and Dolly Sharma, Manager – People & Culture

Website: https://www.athenaeducation.co.in/

Positions in: Gurugram, Mumbai, Bengaluru, London

Athena is striving to transform the academic landscape through holistic education consulting. We help students navigate their journey to the top universities. Founded 10 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 15 countries.

Athena’s vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena’s transformative, holistic life coaching programme embraces both depth and breadth, sciences, and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship programme, our students have gotten into various universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, among others.

Our legacy as pioneers in the study-abroad process, coupled with a creative, open environment and professional growth opportunities, makes Athena a perfect place for those looking to build a lasting career in education.

  • Connect and Heal

Represented by Bulbul Ray Nathan, Chief People Officer

Website: https://connectandheal.com

Connect and Heal is a Bengaluru-based health-tech company that provides end-to-end coordinated care for employees. Founded in November 2016, CNH aims to be the first Health Maintenance Organization in India.

We employ over 700 doctors and paramedics who deliver outpatient care and emergency services across 60 cities in India. On top of this, we also have a managed network of hundreds of doctors who can consult across 35+ specialties and can converse in almost all Indian regional languages.

Over the last six years, we have built a preferred network of 6000+ hospitals, specialist clinics, and 3500+ diagnostic centers across India. We have the largest on-demand ambulance network in the country with over 4500 ambulances and counting.

At Connect and Heal, we are leveraging technology to create a holistic end-to-end healthcare management ecosystem for the people. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we discovered that teleconsultation is a powerful medium to get access to high-quality health outcomes for the majority of the cases of both acute and chronic diseases. Similarly, we believe that we can enable better access and higher accountability of care using technology in health care.

  • Google

Represented by Suzanna Thekkekara, HR Business Partner/People Consultant

Website: https://careers.google.com/

Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

  • Government of India

Represented by Dr Kalpana Gopalan

Website: TBC

PIPP programmes include:

Industry-Connect: Preparing policy briefs in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry on major indigenous industries such as foundries, pumps, infrastructure, IT etc., to enable government to evolve appropriate policy;

Government-connect: Policy and programmes advocacy to translate policy into industry-friendly projects and programmes; Prepare Sectoral briefs to familiarise industry with departments, schemes and programmes of government;

Student-Connect: Dr Kaplana runs a three-year academic programme entitled Government & Governance for the students of RVS institutes. It comprises an Introduction to Government (one year); A Bureaucrat's Musings, an experiential lecture series (two years) and an intensive Leadership Module (three years). The best performers are sponsored to appear for Central & State Civil service examination.

  • Hindustan Unilever Limited

Represented by Nazli Shaikh, Senior Employer Branding Executive, and Nikhita George, Employer Brand and Unilever Future Leaders Programme Manager

Website: https://www.hul.co.in/

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods company with a heritage of over 80 years in India. With 50+ brands spanning 20 distinct categories such as soaps, detergents, shampoos, skin care, toothpastes, deodorants, cosmetics, tea, coffee, packaged foods, ice cream, and water purifiers, the Company is a part of the everyday life of millions of consumers across India.

Our portfolio includes leading household brands such as Lux, Lifebuoy, Surf Excel, Rin, Wheel, Pond’s, Vaseline, Lakmé, Dove, Clinic Plus, Sunsilk, Pepsodent, Closeup, Axe, Brooke Bond, Bru, Knorr, Kissan, Kwality Wall’s and Pureit.

The Company has about 21,000 employees and has an approximate annual turnover of INR 50000+ CR. HUL is a subsidiary of Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home Care, Personal Care and Refreshment products.

  • HSV Digital

Represented by Vandan Jain, Co Founder, and Urvashi Prakash, Marketing and Communications Specialist

Website: https://www.hsv.digital/

Number of vacancies: 4

HSV Digital is a B2B marketing company with a 100% focus on the enterprise technology ecosystem. We support some of the world’s leading brands such as Microsoft, IBM, Databricks, Deloitte, Redington, Eka Software, and Applied Information Science, helping them launch new products, build successful partnerships, and maximize the value of their go-to-market efforts across sales, marketing, and channel.

We provide gold standard of marketing service to Fortune 500 clients globally and are looking for people who want to become leaders in B2B marketing, are passionate about technology and software, are obsessed with detail, and have great communication skills.

  • IPE Global

Represented by Anjali Srivastava, Associate Manager

Website: https://www.ipeglobal.com/

Number of vacancies: 2-3

IPE Global Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary development sector consulting firm offering a range of integrated, innovative, and high-quality services across several sectors and practices. We offer end-to-end consulting and project implementation services in the areas of Public Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education and Skill Development, Social and Economic Empowerment, Urban and Infrastructure Development, Private Sector Development, among others.

Over the last 25 years, IPE Global has successfully implemented over 900 projects in more than 100 countries. The group is headquartered in New Delhi, India with seven international offices in United Kingdom, Kenya, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Philippines, Bangladesh and Nepal. We partner with multilateral, bilateral, governments, corporates, and not-for-profit entities in anchoring development agenda for sustained and equitable growth.

IPE Global is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company and promoted by established practitioners and sector experts. The organization has multi-disciplinary team of 1100+ professionals, bringing together cutting edge knowledge and management skills to enable policy reforms for a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable world.

  • JP Morgan

Represented by Aditya Kawatra, Vice President – Quantitate Research

Website: https://www.jpmorgan.com/global

J.P. Morgan is a leader in investment banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. We serve millions of customers, predominantly in the U.S., and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients globally. Through continued investments, business initiatives and philanthropic commitments, we aim to help our employees, customers, clients, and communities grow and thrive.

  • KPMG

Represented by Shweta Jangale - Campus Hiring, Engagements & Employer Branding, and Anvesha Thakker – Partner, Business Consulting 

Website: https://kpmg.com/in/en/home.html

KPMG is a global organisation of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 143 countries and territories and in FY22 had close to 265,000 people working in member firms around the world.

KPMG entities in India are professional services firm(s) that are affiliated with KPMG International Limited. We offer services to national and international clients in India across sectors. Established in August 1993, the KPMG entities have rapidly built a significant competitive presence in the country. Today we operate from offices across 14 cities including in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Vadodara and Vijayawada.

We strive to provide rapid, performance‐based, industry‐focussed and technology‐enabled services, which reflect a shared knowledge of global and local industries and our experience of the Indian business environment.

  • Kriti Development Praxis and Communications Team

Represented by Aanchal Kapur, Founder

Website: https://krititeam.blogspot.com/https://doculive.blogspot.com/www.gestures.in

Through a cross-cutting analysis of class, caste, gender, religion & region, our vision is to make development theory & practice, holistic, people-oriented & accountable. Our mission is to improve the lives and livelihoods of marginalised women, youth, and other members of urban and rural communities, through programme support services; information and networking initiatives; community-based interventions; and a variety of outreach and livelihood enhancement efforts.

The Kriti Film Club is a documentary screening and distribution initiative; Doculive is an online portal for documentary cinema; and Gestures Ecological is a livelihood support initiative.

  • Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust

Represented by Hussain Paisawala, Vice President

Website: https://www.sbut.com/

Number of vacancies: 2 temporary three-month positions, 3 permanent positions (as well as internships and volunteering opportunities)

Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust, a non-profit, is transforming Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar! We empower people while revitalizing the area. Join us!

Temporary positions:

Process Improvement Specialists (2): Streamline operations with our Strategy team for even greater impact.

Permanent positions:

HR Executive (1): Develop future leaders for a thriving Bhendi Bazaar (focuses on Learning & Development & Organization Development).

EA to CFO (1): Strategy & Finance role, shadowing the CFO in crucial decisions.

Business Analyst (1): Ideal for Civil Engineers transitioning to Business Analytics.

Internships & volunteering opportunities are available for students passionate about social change through housing.

  • Sarvada Legal

Represented by Sundar Ramanathan, Advocate-on-Record and Co-founder

Website: https://sarvada.co.in/

Sarvada Legal is a law firm based in New Delhi practising in the areas of Litigation, and Dispute Resolution, Competition law, International Trade Law, Taxation and Sports Law.

  • Sattva Consulting

Represented by Ambika Jugran, Associate Principal – Impact Measurement and Advisory

Website: https://www.sattva.co.in

  • Social Beat

Represented by Vikas Chawla, Co Founder

Website: www.socialbeat.in

Number of vacancies: 15-20

Founded in 2012, Social Beat is a digital growth partner, enabling brands rise to the impossible. With a 300+ strong team of digital experts across Bengaluru, Mumbai, NCR and Chennai, they are India's fastest-growing independent digital marketing solutions company and manage 4% of digital media investment in India.

Social Beat is a Google Premier Partner, Meta Business Partner and works closely with ecosystem partners like Amazon, Hotstar, Salesforce & Linkedin. D2Scale is their centre of excellence for D2C and retail brands to drive ecommerce growth. Influencer.in is their creator economy product driving discovery and real time reporting of impactful influencer marketing campaigns.

They work as extended growth teams with leading brands like Bharat Matrimony, Adani Wilmar, Jaquar, Arvind Brands, Indian Terrain, Mahindra Finance, Kalpataru Group, Go Colors, JK Cement, Sundaram Mutual and with hyperscaling startups including boAt, WOW Skin, Licious, Niyo, Gamezy, Veeba, A23 Games, Kapiva and Sukoon Health on driving innovation through a combination of creativity and performance.

They have consistently been top winners at the Google Premier Partner Awards since inception.

  • Tata India

Represented by Ankna Kaul, Group HR – Tata Services, and Prathmesh Deshmukh – Senior Manager, Group HR, Tata Services Ltd.

Website: www.tata.com

Number of vacancies: 100+

Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata Group is a global enterprise, headquartered in India, comprising 30 companies across ten verticals.

The group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with a mission 'To improve the quality of life of the communities we serve globally, through long-term stakeholder value creation based on Leadership with Trust’.

Tata Sons is the principal investment holding company and promoter of Tata companies. 66% of the equity share capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts, which support education, health, livelihood generation and art and culture.

In 2022-23, the revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $150 billion (INR 12 trillion). These companies collectively employ over 1 million people.

Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors. There are 29 publicly listed Tata enterprises with a combined market capitalisation of $300 billion (INR 24 trillion) as on 31 July 2023.

  • Valence Growth Partners

Represented by Kartik Jaishankar, Managing Partner

Website: https://valencegrowth.com/

Number of vacancies: 1 Analyst (Full-time) and 1-2 Intern(s)

Valence Growth Partners is a global investment advisory firm focussed on early to growth-stage ventures and investors. Our goal is to help founders, funders and individual investors navigate the rapidly evolving financial ecosystem. We work on the buy-side and sell-side to assist with fundraising, deal sourcing, strategic planning, M&A, and asset management. Our highly skilled team of fund managers, former entrepreneurs and tech-experts gives us a unique vantage point as catalysts for growth.


Online tools, resources, and job opportunities

Here are some LSE Careers resources you might like to check out

  • Student Circus (online tools) provides a jobs board with opportunities across India. It also provides a country career guide for India, covering the job search, CVs, applications and cover letters, interviews, and more.
  • Connect with LSE alumni who have found roles in India using platforms such as LinkedIn or the LSE Alumni Chapters in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi.

Talk to one of our careers consultants

Get confidential one-to-one guidance from one of our professional and dedicated team of careers consultants.

Our consultants can help with:

  • careers advice and planning;
  • CV, cover letter and application form feedback;
  • practice interviews;
  • specialist careers support for disabled students and PhD students.

Read about different types of careers appointments online

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Gain new skills at our career skills workshops

Throughout the year we provide a range of events to equip you with the skills to succeed including:

  • CV, cover letter and application workshops;
  • mock assessment centres;
  • sector insights;
  • and more!

Browse all of our events on CareerHub 

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