IITs Encouraging Students to go for Internships to Boost Job Prospects
Prachi Verma
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New Delhi:
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Pre-placements will make room for more students in the final placement season in December
Most of the Indian Institutes of Technology are encouraging students to accept internship offers from prospective employers, an attempt on part of the elite engineering institutes to minimise the number of students who do not get any job offers by the time of final placements in December.The IITs at Kharagpur, Chennai, Kanpur, Guwahati, Roorkee, Varanasi (Banaras Hindu University) and Hyderabad are part of this overdrive, people aware of the matter said.
Every year, 5-15% students at IITs fail to get any job offers, they said.
“Internship is a natural step for all the IITs. This will make room for more students in the final placement season,“ Debasis Deb, chairman of IIT Kharagpur's Career Development Centre told ET.
IIT Kharagpur has quite a task on hand as it seeks to place nearly 2,000 students every year.
“If we get 300 PPOs (pre-placement offers) this year, which is almost double of last year's, the pressure on final placement gets reduced,“ Deb said.
It is a challenge for the IITs to place all of their undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students.
“This is not the problem of one IIT but all the IITs. Students who do not perform that well (with less than 5 CGPA or cumulative grade point average) find almost no takers,“ said Kaustubha Mohanty , faculty member in charge of placemen t at IIT Guwahati.
Mohanty said that most IITs are barely able to cross the 80% mark in terms of placing all its students other than undergraduates, including postgraduates, dual degree holders and PhDs.“Not a single IIT has 100% success rate in placing all its students,“ he said.
Apart from students who are low performers (5-10% at each IIT), there are those students who do not opt for pla cements at all as they take up higher studies or entrepreneurship.
NP Padhy, professor in charge of placements at IIT Roorkee said that the number of students doing internships and getting a PPO is incre asing. “The faith in in ternship is highest ever from the student fraternity. As an insti tute we too are ensu ring that more and more companies co me this year,“ he said.
IIT Hyderabad is also laying special empha sis on PPOs this year.per cent chance that stu “There is a 90 per cent chance that students interning in companies will land a job,“ said B Venkatesham, fa culty member in charge of placement and training cell at IIT Hyderabad.
Among the newer IITs, the one in Varanasi is seeing interest from a number of companies. A few companies have handed out PPOs this year compared to none last year.
Most IITs are to begin the PPOs season in a few weeks.
“The action is already very strong this year,“ said IIT Madras' former placement advisor Babu Viswanathan.The institute is perhaps taking internship offers for its students most seriously , having recently opened a fullfledged office dedicated to internship.“We are hoping that with more PPOs, the pressure on final placements will reduce,“ said Viswanathan.
Most companies too prefer the internship route, faculty members said.
“Internship is a courtship route for both companies and students before deciding on job offers,“ said Mohanty.
Internship increases chances of getting a job offer manifold compared to the final placement route, according to experts.
“Internship gives sufficient time to examine the compatibility between a company and student. It also gives a comfort factor to students and companies before the examinations kick in,“ said Rohin Kapoor, director at Deloitte in India.
Every year, 5-15% students at IITs fail to get any job offers, they said.
“Internship is a natural step for all the IITs. This will make room for more students in the final placement season,“ Debasis Deb, chairman of IIT Kharagpur's Career Development Centre told ET.
IIT Kharagpur has quite a task on hand as it seeks to place nearly 2,000 students every year.
“If we get 300 PPOs (pre-placement offers) this year, which is almost double of last year's, the pressure on final placement gets reduced,“ Deb said.
It is a challenge for the IITs to place all of their undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students.
“This is not the problem of one IIT but all the IITs. Students who do not perform that well (with less than 5 CGPA or cumulative grade point average) find almost no takers,“ said Kaustubha Mohanty , faculty member in charge of placemen t at IIT Guwahati.
Mohanty said that most IITs are barely able to cross the 80% mark in terms of placing all its students other than undergraduates, including postgraduates, dual degree holders and PhDs.“Not a single IIT has 100% success rate in placing all its students,“ he said.
Apart from students who are low performers (5-10% at each IIT), there are those students who do not opt for pla cements at all as they take up higher studies or entrepreneurship.
NP Padhy, professor in charge of placements at IIT Roorkee said that the number of students doing internships and getting a PPO is incre asing. “The faith in in ternship is highest ever from the student fraternity. As an insti tute we too are ensu ring that more and more companies co me this year,“ he said.
IIT Hyderabad is also laying special empha sis on PPOs this year.per cent chance that stu “There is a 90 per cent chance that students interning in companies will land a job,“ said B Venkatesham, fa culty member in charge of placement and training cell at IIT Hyderabad.
Among the newer IITs, the one in Varanasi is seeing interest from a number of companies. A few companies have handed out PPOs this year compared to none last year.
Most IITs are to begin the PPOs season in a few weeks.
“The action is already very strong this year,“ said IIT Madras' former placement advisor Babu Viswanathan.The institute is perhaps taking internship offers for its students most seriously , having recently opened a fullfledged office dedicated to internship.“We are hoping that with more PPOs, the pressure on final placements will reduce,“ said Viswanathan.
Most companies too prefer the internship route, faculty members said.
“Internship is a courtship route for both companies and students before deciding on job offers,“ said Mohanty.
Internship increases chances of getting a job offer manifold compared to the final placement route, according to experts.
“Internship gives sufficient time to examine the compatibility between a company and student. It also gives a comfort factor to students and companies before the examinations kick in,“ said Rohin Kapoor, director at Deloitte in India.
Source: Economic Times, 9-08-2016
