Students battle it out at placements

Students battle it out at placements

It’s that time of year again when students queue up, CVs in hand, trying to crack the recruitment rounds in campus placements. While the scene does look better this year, when compared to 2008’s empty placement cells that didn’t attract recruiters, the fact remains that snagging a job is still no cake walk.

with leading IT companies giving campus recruitment a miss, the rat race just got tougher. firms that are willing to invest in freshers, have raised the bar, forcing students to buck up and work twice as hard.

Raju Lohar, a final year B.Com student at Bhavans Vivekananda College says, “With fewer companies coming in this year, the competition has just gotten tougher. Since only a few companies have come in the first round, students are working towards making an impression on the few recruiters who will come in the next session.”

The college’s placement coordinator, Seema Ghosh couldn’t agree more, “Big IT companies like Infosys, CTS, TCS, Wipro are missing and the ones that are hiring have halved the slots up for grabs, increasing the competition,” she says.

“Hence, the qualification requirements are more stringent now as companies have raised the bar for freshers who want to qualify for their jobs.”

Students are keeping their fingers crossed and are gearing up to work harder to get picked for the right job. From preparing impressive CVs to collecting as many reference letters as they can, students are going all out to grab available jobs. “We are reading up about company profiles so we don’t cut a sorry picture during interviews. Our college also organised a three-day workshop on the art of facing interviews,” says K. Rajula, a student of St Francis Degree College.

“Since the big IT companies have backed out, the ones who are showing some interest in freshers this year are from the non-IT sectors,” says Ranita Tymerri, placement representative, St Francis Degree College.

Some rattled students are not even prepared to get into the rat race. “With the big ones like UBS and DeShaw not coming, many are not ready to compete for the placements. They want to try their luck in in creative fields,” she adds.

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