Objectives for Career Guidance and Placement Cell
- To achieve maximum possible campus recruitments for final year students enrolled in UG and PG courses.
- To guide students on career development by conducting workshop on resume writing, group discussion and interview techniques.
- To organize training program for students on communication skills, personality development, public speaking, body language and corporate etiquettes.
- To collaborate with companies to conduct internship program, technical seminars, career counseling sessions and guest lectures by professionals on higher studies.
- To create and maintain the database of the final year students.
- To organize interactive programs on career planning and emerging trends in the industry with the alumni.
- To inform the students seeking employment about the job opportunities available in the industries.
- To liaison with the companies and organize campus placements.
- To build and maintain good relation with the industry for campus recruitment and getting feedback on student performance
The college has a full fledged CGPC to look after the placement activities. CGPC provides support base for placement of final year students of UG and PG courses. It serves as a link between the students and the prospective employers. The members of CGPC includes faculty of various departments with student representatives. CGPC is headed by the placement coordinator and together they manage the working of the cell. The CGPC looks after all arrangements to be made for the purpose of conducting campus recruitments.
The cell maintains stream wise record of all current appearing students in the final year through the placement forms. The cell prepares placement brochure which contains information on the probable companies for recruitment and all the rules, regulations and code of conduct for the students. It also maintains a list of students of previous batches and passes this list to the companies who are interested in recruiting them.
Regular correspondence is maintained with various companies, personal visits by the placement officer too many companies also serves to build and maintain relations with the companies. Based on the requirements prescribed by the company the eligible candidate attends the selection process of visiting the company. The cell has conducted pool campus for Wipro, Kanbay, HP, Igate, where in many colleges are invited for recruitment process.
The CGPC also takes feedback from the companies that have visited, since the feedback from the company serves as a yardstick regarding the performance of the students. This helps the CGPC in concentrating on various areas of improvement in the student’s performance.
As an interface between the industry and the college US Taxation classes conducted for the selected students of batch 2007 – 08. Lectures and workshop are organized by Deloitte, Cognizant and Google on topics related to career development of the students. Merit awards were given by internship program on “Ad Words” in the college. Apollo Health Street, Deloitte, Google is conducting their Google Ambassador program in the college for the 2nd year and 3rd year students.
Plans for 2008 – 09
Till September, 2008 Deshaw, Cognizant, Google, Deloitte (US tax), HSBC have already visited the college for campus placements. The cell will continue the placement process in the month of November, 2008 major companies like BOA, Wipro, TCS, ADP, Broad ridge, Apollo Health Street, Genpact, Franklin Templeton, Dell, Infosys, Satyam BPO, Wipro BPO, Juno online etc are expected to visit the college for recruitments.
Google has conducted one day workshop on Internet Security. The cell plans to organize workshop on resume writing and interview skills conducted by Google. Apollo Health Street will conduct communication classes for selected students in the November, 2008. A career guidance lecture on insurance will be conducted by IIRM. Cognizant has proposed to conduct a workshop for all the students on soft skills.
The cell has organized a soft skills training programme for all the PG students of the college to improve their employability in the job market. The MBA students of the college are planning to take the video on the campus for the recruitment process. |