GUWAHATI: In the summer placement season for the batch of 2016-2018 of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong Sales and Marketing emerged as the most sought after domain accounting for 36 per cent of the total offers made to the candidates.A total of 184 roles were offered across various functional domains. The season witnessed a highest stipend of Rs 2,50,000 and an average total stipend of Rs 81,000, a significant jump of 17 per cent from the previous year.Prominent recruiters included Mahindra GMC, Aditya Birla Group, Google Dabur , HSBC, Perfetti Van Melle, ICICI Bank Amazon , Cognizant Business Consulting, Titan, GSK Pharmaceuticals, Tata Steel, Fidelity Management Research and Wipro The new recruiters this year included ITC , Deloitte S&O, Kohler, Beiersdorf (Nivea), Yes Bank , Piramal Enterprises, Cummins, VMware, Aviva Life Insurance, Lava and Metlife.Deloitte emerged as the largest recruiter in consulting domain offering the highly coveted Strategy and Operations profile. HSBC made the maximum offers in the Finance domain while ITC, Tata Motors and Tata Steel made the highest number of offers in Sales & Marketing domain.Apart from the increasing number of offers made in FMCG and manufacturing & retail sectors, the season also saw participation of unconventional sectors such as healthcare and social sector offering strategy and evelopment roles.Prof. Sharad Nath Bhattacharya, Chairperson- Student Affairs, accredits improved numbers with existing companies and addition of a large number of new recruiters to the performance and credibility of IIM Shillong graduates in the industry.