Campus placements begin at SMVDU

Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Oct 11: Amidst global challenging factors like, slow world economic growth and changing global business environment where media is talking about IT slump, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University opened its Campus-2018 Recruitment program with global IT companies TCS and Wipro.
A team of Technical and HR panelists, headed by Narender Chandel, Regional Head (TA) from TCS, conducted the campus drive for 2018 passing out students from October 8 to 11, 2017. 118 students from SMVDU appeared in this campus drive. After passing through a rigorous campus selection process, consisting of Online Test, Technical Interview and HR Interview, 43 students from B Tech., M Tech and MCA from SMVDU Katra, were declared finally selected by the TCS Recruitment Team.
Narender Chandel, Regional Head, TCS also met Dr Sanjeev Kumar Jain, Vice-Chancellor, SMVDU, to underst and and deliberate on challenges and expectations from technical institutions. Dr Jain and Chandel discussed and agreed upon various strategies and initiatives required to be taken in the current scenario of automation, artificial intelligence, digitization and low economic growth for providing better employment opportunities to the students.
Earlier, TCS had offered placement to six students and Wipro had selected seven students of the same batch. SMVDU has placed so far 56 students from the batch passing out in 2018.
SMVDU VC advised the selected students to be sincere, hardworking and honest to their work after joining. He also asked the students to stay at least 3 to 5 years with their campus recruiters so that they get specialization in their field which will also be helpful for their juniors at the university.