Job Fair in Eastern region encouraging

Updated on: Friday, April 27, 2012

TeamLease Services and Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT) received over 429 jobseekers throughout the eastern region at job fairs held in various cities like Kolkata, Contai, Domjur, and other towns in West Bengal. The job fair offered over 690 jobs in sales, insurance and banking sectors for graduates and candidates who have finished their 10+2.

Over 107 candidates have been shortlisted by the top companies like Flipkart India Pvt Ltd, Global InnovSource Solutions Pvt Ltd, Bajaj Capital Insurance Broking Ltd, Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Ltd, Shomuk Engineering and consultancy services, Bhandari Automobile Pvt Ltd, India Infoline Ltd etc.

The candidates got the opportunity to go through assessment and employability evaluation conducted by experienced IIJT faculty and career counselors. The objective of this initiative is to help candidates assess themselves for job readiness and build a platform to bring jobseekers & employers together, thereby taking a step ahead in bridging the skill gap across industries.

According to Subhankar Bhattacharya, east divisional head at IIJT Education, “Unemployment and un-employability are the two major issues in are our country. An integrated approach, adopted by such initiatives that bring together job seekers and employers to link the demand and supply of manpower will certainly help bridge this gap.”

The job fair was held in Kolkata, Contai, Uluberia, Domjur, Barasat, Sinthee, Darbhanga and Silchar. The turnout of candidates that appeared ranged highest in cities like Uluberia (90 candidates), Kolkata (78 candidates) Sinthee (72 candidates), Barasat (70 candidates) and Silchar (50 candidates) but number of candidates that were shortlisted was comparatively low (25, 20, 10 and 15 respectively).

On the other hand, cities like Contai and Domjur, which had a low turnout of appearing candidates (32 and 20 candidates respectively) had surprisingly a larger number of successful candidates as 15 and 7 candidates were chosen respectively.

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