The list of 5 companies you would like to work with, after graduating and reasons for the same.

You are required to collect information like turnover, total employee strength, address of the corporate office of the company, recruitment related policies, procedures and appointing authorities with their contact details etc.

HCL Enterprise
HCL is a global technology and IT Enterprise that operates in 31 countries. Its headquarters are in Noida, India. The company comprises two publicly listed companies, HCL Technologies and HCl Infosystems. HCL was focused on addressing the IT hardware market in India for the first two decades of its existence with some activity in the global market. On termination of the joint venture with HP in 1996, HCL became an enterprise comprising HCL Technologies (to address the global IT services market) and HCL Info systems (to address the Indian and APAC IT hardware market). HCL has since then operated as a holding company.

TYPE Private INDUSTRY IT services FOUNDED 11, Aug, 1976 HEADQUATERS Noida, India KEY PEOPLE- Shiv Nadar (founder, chairman) REVENUE US$ 6.2 Billion (2011) EMPLOYEES 90,000 WEBSITE www.hcl.in

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young (EY) is one of the largest professional service firms in the world and one of the "Big Four" accounting firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Ernst & Young is a global organization of member firms in more than 140 countries, headquartered in London, UK. It was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 8th largest private company in the United States in 2011. In 1903, the firm of Ernst & Ernst was established in Cleveland by Alwin C. Ernst and his brother Theodore and in 1906 Arthur Young & Co. was set up by the Scotsman Arthur Young in Chicago. As early as 1924 these American firms allied with prominent British firms, Young with Broads Paterson & Co. and Ernst with Whinney Smith & Whinney. In 1979 this led to the formation of Anglo-American Ernst & Whinney, creating the fourth largest accountancy firm in the world. Also in 1979, the European offices of Arthur Young merged with several large local European firms, which became member firms of Arthur Young International. The firm's name arises from the global merger between Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young in 1989. The motto of the firm is "Quality In Everything We Do" TYPE - Member firms have different legal structures, USA and UK: Limited Liability Partnership. INDUSTRY Professional Services FOUNDED 1989, individual components from 1849 HEADQUATERS London, UK. KEY PEOPLE Jim Turley (chairman, CEO) SERVICES Audit, Tax, Financial Advisory, Consultancy REVENUE US$22.9 Billion (2011) EMPLOYEES 152,000 WEBSITE www.EY.com

Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is an Indian provider of information technology (IT) services, business solutions and outsourcing services headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of Tata Group conglomerate. TCS is one of the largest publicly traded companies in India by market capitalization. It is also the largest IT services company in India by revenue and profit. TCS is one of the largest private sector employers in India with core strength of 238,583 individuals. TCS has turned into the second-largest employer among listed companies after Coal India Limited. But the biggest employer in the country is Indian Railways with 1.6 million employees. TCS's BPO arm had revenues of $925 million in the year that ended in March 2011, and has 34,000 employees TCS has one of the lowest attrition rates in the Indian IT industry. India's biggest IT Company plans to hire 60,000 freshers in FY-2012-13. TYPE Public INDUSTRY IT services, IT consulting

FOUNDED 1968 FOUNDER JRD TATA HEADQUATERS Mumbai, Maharashtra, India KEY PEOPLE Ratan TATA (chairman), N.chandrasekaran (CEO, MD) SERVICES IT, Business Consulting & Outsourcing services REVENUE US$10.17 Billion (2012) WEBSITE www.tcs.com

ITC Limited
ITC Limited or ITC is an Indian public conglomerate company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Its diversified business includes four segments: Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Hotels, Paperboards, Paper & Packaging and Agri Business. ITC's annual turnover stood at $7 billion and market capitalization of over $33 billion. The company has its registered office in Kolkata. It started off as the Imperial Tobacco Company, and shares ancestry with Imperial Tobacco of the United Kingdom, but it is now fully independent, and was rechristened to India Tobacco Company in 1970 and then to I.T.C. Limited in 1974. The company is currently headed by Yogesh Chander Deveshwar. It employs over 26,000 people at more than 60 locations across India and is listed on Forbes 2000. ITC Limited completed 100 years on 24 August 2010. ITC has a diversified presence in FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods), Hotels, Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Packaging, Agri-Business and Information Technology. While ITC is an outstanding market leader in its traditional businesses of Hotels, Paperboards, Packaging, Agri-Exports and Cigarettes, it is rapidly gaining market share even in its nascent businesses of Packaged Foods & Confectionery, Branded Apparel, Personal Care and Stationery. TYPE- Public INDUSTRY Conglomerate FOUNDED Aug 24,1910. FOUNDER Henry Overton Wills HEADQUATERS Kolkata, West Bengal, India KEY PEOPLE Yogesh Chander Deveshwar (chairman) REVENUE US$7 Billion (2010) EMPLOYEES 24,207 (2009) WEBSITE www.itcportal.com

HDFC Bank
HDFC Bank Limited is an Indian financial services company that was incorporated in August 1994. HDFC Bank is the fifth or sixth largest bank in India by assets and the second largest bank by market capitalization as of February 24, 2012. The bank was promoted by the Housing Development Finance Corporation, a premier housing finance company (set up in 1977) of India. HDFC Bank has 1,986 branches and over 5,471 ATMs, in 996 cities in India, and all branches of the bank are linked on an online real-time basis. As of 30 September 2008 the bank had total assets of Rs.1006.82 billion. For the fiscal year 2010-11, the bank has reported net profit of 3,926.30 crore (US$783.3 million), up 33.1% from the previous fiscal. Total annual earnings of the bank increased by 20.37% reaching at 24,263.4 crore (US$4.84 billion) in 2010-11. HDFC Bank is one of the Big Four banks of India, along with: State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Punjab National Bank. HDFC Bank deals with three key business segments. - Wholesale Banking Services, Retail Banking Services, Treasury. It has entered the banking consortia of over 50 corporate for providing working capital finance, trade services, corporate finance, and merchant banking. It is also providing sophisticated product structures in areas of foreign exchange and derivatives, money markets and debt trading and equity research. TYPE Public INDUSTRY Banking, Financial Services FOUNDED Aug, 1994 HEADQUATERS Mumbai, Maharashtra, India KEY PEOPLE Aditya Puri (MD) REVENUE US$ 5.585 Billion (2011) EMPLOYEES 55,752 WEBSITE www.HDFCbank.com