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IIM-C Moves Out Of Campus, Opts For Jobs Fair At Hotel: The Financial Express
Kolkata, Oct 17: In a trailblazing move, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), has shifted its summer placements session out of its distant campus into the heart of the city.
Kolkata, Oct 17: In a trailblazing move, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), has shifted its summer placements session out of its distant campus into the heart of the city.
For the first time ever, the IIM-C’s 250-odd first-year students will interact with corporates in a posh city hotel over this weekend. IIM officials feel that the novel initiative will set a benchmark among other B-Schools in the country apart from reducing time for placements considerably.
So far, 20 corporates have confirmed their participation in the summer placements of 2003 scheduled for October 18 and 19. Some of these companies include Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Tata AIG, Tata Motors, Dr Reddy’s Lab and WeP Peripherals. “The practice of conducting a job fair is common in the international B-Schools and IIM-C is the first institute in India to do it. Depending on its success, we plan to organise the same events for our final placements and all subsequent placements,” says Priyanshu Singh, a first-year student of IIM-C.
IIM-C has booked two conference rooms at Taj Bengal over the weekend to conduct the placement programme. The institute has also put a cap of 30 corporates who can come in for recruitment.
IIM-C officials say that the summer placements, which took almost a month to complete for so long, will be reduced drastically under the new scheme of things.
An IIM-C source said that each company will be given one-and-a-half hours to make a formal presentation which will be followed by another half an hour for an interface with the prospective candidates. “We are sure that this is a much more efficient way of conducting placement sessions as it provides a better employee-employer interface,” the source said.
The two-day session will see a maximum of 15 companies each day making their formal presentations to the candidates. Earlier, IIM-C summer placements used to last for nearly a month.
So far, 20 corporates have confirmed their participation in the summer placements of 2003 scheduled for October 18 and 19. Some of these companies include Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Tata AIG, Tata Motors, Dr Reddy’s Lab and WeP Peripherals. “The practice of conducting a job fair is common in the international B-Schools and IIM-C is the first institute in India to do it. Depending on its success, we plan to organise the same events for our final placements and all subsequent placements,” says Priyanshu Singh, a first-year student of IIM-C.
IIM-C has booked two conference rooms at Taj Bengal over the weekend to conduct the placement programme. The institute has also put a cap of 30 corporates who can come in for recruitment.
IIM-C officials say that the summer placements, which took almost a month to complete for so long, will be reduced drastically under the new scheme of things.
An IIM-C source said that each company will be given one-and-a-half hours to make a formal presentation which will be followed by another half an hour for an interface with the prospective candidates. “We are sure that this is a much more efficient way of conducting placement sessions as it provides a better employee-employer interface,” the source said.
The two-day session will see a maximum of 15 companies each day making their formal presentations to the candidates. Earlier, IIM-C summer placements used to last for nearly a month.