It is crunch time for over 100 students of the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) University. The students will be participating in the campus placements scheduled to begin from Monday.
The batch, passing out in April 2010, include 30 students from urban and regional planning, 17 from faculty of environment planning, 16 from faculty of housing, 22 from faculty of infrastructure planning and 19 from faculty of industrial area planning and management. The placement consultancy in Orissa process is expected to go on till February 14.
For the batch of 104 students, the students-run placement committee approached over 400 corporate houses. The job placement consultants committee has received confirmation from around 28 companies including, GIFT, BMT job consultancy in Bhubaneswar, GPCB, Geodesic, ARUP, IL&FS Ecosmart, Alexendria, Feedback Ventures, GUDM, GUDC, GIDR, GIDB, AFCONS and HCP.
“The Various projects the students do during the course give us a lot of field exposure and industry insight. The students are prepared for multitasking and team work,” said one of the students who will be taking placements from Monday.
The students’ profiles have been sent to the corporate through a brochure, carrying details of each student, with their areas of interest and projects done during graduation. The students have hit their books and the campus is bustling with activity, with the class of 2010 getting prepared and revising their courses.
Monday, 2 September 2013
04:02
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Students of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, have touched a new horizon this time. From playing corporate managers of the financial sector, the IIMA students this time took to unchartered territory like mediating acquisitions, mergers and also selling social media games.
This marks a definite change of hats for the students of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) this year.
This year, according to IIMA sources, the institute had approached more domestic players and companies in core sectors like FMCG, energy and consulting. “Earlier students would keep jobs with domestic postings as their last option. But since the last one year, the pay packages for domestic jobs are as lucrative as international offers. More than 180 students have been already placed but this year financial institutions have recruited less during placement and more by extending pre-placements offers,” said a student.
Cluster 2 of IIMA placement consultancy in Orissa consisted of five cohorts - FMCG marketing, business development, general management, financial services and technology consulting. The day had the presence of first time recruiters like San Francisco-based social gaming giant Zynga which extended offers to the students. Technology major IBM visited the campus and made more than 20 offers to the students during the day.
On the other hand only three international investment banks including Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and HSBC, participated in the cluster-2 of the final job consultancy in Bhubaneswar at IIM-A. Students of the B-school received only 10 offers from these recruiters. Until last year finance sector made the highest number of recruiters at the institute’s campus. Last year there were 94 offers from the sector.
“After the downfall of Lehman Brothers the writing was on the wall. B-schools around the world had sensed that post 2009 international banks will not remain as aggressive during job placement consultants. This year, the institute had in fact approached more domestic players and companies in core sectors like FMCG, energy and consulting,” said a senior IIM-A professor.
03:58
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Tech education has grown by leaps and bounds in West Bengal, and chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee wants to showcase this to the rest of the country. So he has written to state higher education department to organise a summit where the heads of technological education from across the country, especially the neighbouring states, would be invited to witness the sea change has taken place over last five years.
The summit, planned for February 14-15, will be the first of its kind here and will be attended by key people from AICTE, the IITs, the RECs and major tech colleges of other states.
Even five years ago, the state had just six government-run engineering institutions that could accommodate only a handful of bright students. Thousands of students had to either go to the southern states or head for Delhi or Maharashtra to study engineering. “Now the scenario has changed and the proverbial ‘trainloads’ no longer leave the state. Today, we have 54 engineering colleges that are prepared to accept not only all our students, but even those from other states. This year we have absorbed nearly 3,000 students from other states in our tech colleges. This indeed calls for some celebration and the chief minister is justified in asking us to organise the summit,” director of technical education Sajal Dasgupta told TOI.
Right from the quality of teaching and results to the quality of placement students are getting,
everything will be on display at the summit. Six sessions have been planned for the two days, focusing on different aspects of tech education.
The summit will open with ‘Quality of Technological Education: Destination West Bengal’. “We would focus on our teaching standards, the advanced topics covered by our syllabi keeping with global trends and the brilliant results of our students that have generated interest among corporates.
“The second session has been named WB Tech Education: The Global Gateway To Jobs. Here we will reveal our job placement consultants reports from different campuses. You would be amazed to know the large numbers that have bagged jobs with MNCs,” Dasgupta said.
All eyes are likely to be on the session titled Synergy With Neighbouring States, where heads of technological institutions of north-eastern states, placement consultancy in Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh will be invited over and plans for bringing about uniformity in syllabi, student and teacher exchange programmes and sharing of resources will be chalked out. “Some of these states are trying to establish their own tech colleges now and are seeking advise from us. We are in a position to extend such job consultancy in Bhubaneswar services,”
Grooming of budding engineers will also be discussed and right from communication skills to right dressing and attitude, everything will be thrashed out and new recommendations made.
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