S. Vishnu Sharma
NIT AP campus placement for academic year 2020-21 recorded an increase despite COVID-19 situation.
The total number of students placed increased during 2020-21, which is a significant achievement in the current scenario.
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The entire selection process during this NIT AP (Andhra Pradesh) campus placement was conducted online.
NIT AP campus placement had witnessed as many as 78.7 percent of students being placed during 2020-21. This development is a no less happy one as it is more than what was seen last year.
In the previous year, NIT AP campus placement saw about 70.62 percent students being placed.
Who were the top recruiters during this year’s NIT AP campus placement? L&T, Deloitte, Accenture, TCS, Infosys, ADP, Cognizant and Modak Analytics and others.
Director of NIT Andhra Pradesh Professor C.S.P. Rao elaborated about campus placement.
‘NIT AP campus placement provides an opportunity to the students to test their employability skills gained for current industry requirements.’
Further, the outcome seen during NIT AP campus placement allows them to know better the confident level and decision making towards their professional career.
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NIT Andhra Pradesh emphasizes skill development through curriculum and promotes interdisciplinary studies and innovative projects among student community, he said.
The departments are also engaged in placement process and conducted several training programs in their expertise, said Professor Rao.
‘The curriculum has been revised for 2020-21 admitted batch onward based on New Education Policy (NEP)-2020 and future industry needs thereby to enhance the good relationship between academia and industry.’
We have strived to retrain the best performance in the placement record during pandemic, said Professor Rao speaking about NIT AP campus placement.
This young institute is overcoming the challenges involved strategically to present a head start in the students’ career, he said.
Dr. Karthikeya Sharma, Associate Dean (Training and Placements) elaborated about how NIT AP campus placement turned online.
‘Due to the pandemic, companies started the recruiting only when there is a project in their hand, which was not the case in the previous years.’
Companies used to hire students and showing that manpower they used to get the project.
Identifying this scenario, the Training and Placement Cell reached out to more number of companies for hiring, he said speaking about NIT AP campus placement.
During the pandemic, every company hired fewer numbers than the previous years but reaching out more companies helped NIT Andhra Pradesh to secure a good number of placements, he said speaking about NIT AP campus placement.
There was a good response when it comes to NIT AP campus placement.
It is interesting to note that Training and Placement (TandP) Cell of the institution also took lot of measures. They are:
Ø At the beginning of the Academic Year, the T&P cell prepared the calendar of Technical sessions (Revision of Technical concepts and Mock Technical interviews) with the help of the respective Department faculty Coordinators.
Ø Along with the on-campus drives T&P Cell of NIT Andhra Pradesh gathered the drive notifications (off Campus) from various sources and notified them regularly to the students and encouraged them to participate in those drives also. This helped few more students to get placed.
Ø Compared to IT Companies there was a drastic reduction in the hiring numbers of Core companies (Mechanical, Civil, EEE, Chemical, Biotech, ECE and Metallurgy related).
Identifying this scenario, students from Non-IT (Core) branches were also alerted to strengthen their coding skills, so that they will be placed in an IT company if they are interested instead of waiting for core companies.
This made many non-IT branch students getting placed in IT Companies.
NIT AP campus placement has been impressive. And, the institution does lot of work other that is also impressive.
Keeping in mind the students preparing for the higher education and competitive exams with the association of top coaching centers the Institute also conducts the mock GATE, CAT and GMAT examinations.
There is more to the good work being done at the institution.
The impressive work has helped record great performance during NIT AP campus placement.
NIT Andhra Pradesh starts training and encourages the student during their third year of UG and encourages them to get internships in top companies and to work on some mini projects besides registering for online courses, which will strengthen their resume and provide exposure to the students about the corporate world.
That is not the only thing. Industrial experts come to the institution and conduct webinars and workshops on resume building, cracking HR and Technical interviews are also conducted frequently.
The objective is to reduce the gap between the industry needs and the students’ skillset and to make the students Industry ready at the campus itself.
All these measures ensure the performance remains impressive during NIT AP campus placement.
The Training and Placement Cell, NIT Andhra Pradesh, makes students ready to meet Industry requirements through several initiatives, including:
Ø Soft – skills Training workshops.
Ø Resume building sessions.
Ø Internship Opportunities and guidance.
Ø Aptitude, Reasoning and Verbal skillset Development test.
Ø Technical concepts revision sessions by respective departments.
Ø Technical Mock Interviews.
Ø Mock HR, GD and JAM sessions.
NIT AP campus placement performance over the years is given in the tabular format below:
| S.No | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021
(As on Date) * |
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| 1. | Total no of students registered | 282 | 303 | 310 |
| 2. | Total Companies Registered | 38 | 47 | 68 |
| 3. | Total Offers Made | 248 | 202 | 244 |
| 4. | Percentage of Placements | 87.9 % | 70.62 % | 78.7% |
| 5. | Average Package (in Lakh/Per Annum) | 5.6 | 6.54 | 6.47 |
| 6. | Maximum Package (in Lakh/Per Annum) | 12 | 16 | 16 |