A bigger, better Education Plus Career Fair

Updated on: Thursday, May 19, 2011

This year's Education Plus Career Fair promises to be, for every student standing at the portals of higher education, the ultimate guide to future courses and careers.

In its seventh edition, the Education Plus Career Fair will be bigger, and better, than ever before.

To be held once again at the Chennai Trade Centre, the two-day fair will create an ideal platform for students to interact with experts from colleges and the industry. Representatives from two leading educational institutions in the country – Mayil Vahanan Natarajan, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical Varsity and G.V.Sampath, Vice President, Operations, Vellore Institute of Technology – will grace the occasion.

The sessions commence at 9.30 a.m. and the first is the absolute hot favourite. The session on engineering and medical counselling will be anchored by Sudha Seshaiyan (medical), Registrar, Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University; and Jayaprakash Gandhi (engineering), education consultant.

This will be followed by another favourite session among students – IT Edge. The panel discussion will focus, among other things, the essentiality of soft skills, the process of preparing and acing campus recruitments, and a crash course on what to expect once a student is hired by a software company. The speakers for the session include Vidya Murali of Kuboz consultants, and Santanu of Talent Sprint.

The next session on core engineering will be conducted by Brijesh Nair from VIT, Vellore.

The second day begins with a panel discussion on media studies, titled Media Edge. Sampath Kumar from Asian College of Journalism, K.Hariharan of the LV Prasad Film and TV Academy, and Sajan of Maitri Advertising will make presentations, and this will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

The second session of the day will be the one on Off-Beat Career Options, during which Vaidhya Subramanian, dean, SASTRA University, will talk of opportunities in biotechnology, Shanmuka Sundaram, chairman, SIRC of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, will talk on chartered accountancy, and Anantha Padmanabhan, lawyer, will throw light on his profession.

The wind-up session this year is the psychometric test to be conducted by Bodhi and will be held between 3.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m.

The title sponsor is VIT, which will also sponsor the Core Engineering session. P.B. College of Engineering will sponsor the pre-counselling session. The sponsor for IT-EDGE is Edserv; and Apollo Engineering College will sponsor the Media Edge session. The apparel partner is Derby, food court partner is Q bites, gift partner Roshan Bags, and H2O partner is Repute. The Radio partner for the event is Chennai Live, event partner iads and events, and television partner NDTV Hindu.

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