Students from tier-II cities assert efficiency in TCS job fair

Updated on: Monday, March 14, 2011

That IT companies are serious about sourcing manpower from tier-II cities and towns on an even keel got evident on Sunday when Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) extended job offers for 115 candidates from affiliated colleges of Bharathidasan University.
At the end of the two-day process at the Cauvery College for Women where over 1,500 candidates from 43 colleges were invited, those selected were given call letters by the Vice Chancellor K. Meena in the presence of the Recruitment Head of TCS, Chennai, M.A.Usman.

Referring to the adequacy of domain knowledge of candidates in tier II and III cities, Dr. Meena said the university will equip students of affiliated colleges for jobs through employability training in the areas of communication skills, presentation and test of reasoning through its Centre for University Industry Collaboration (CUIC) that organised the job fair.

The university will also look for opportunities to facilitate students to gain valuable internship experience in the private sector for real-time experience, she said, and requested the university's alumni to join hands to create a vibrant university-industry interaction. Industrial training would be made mandatory for all UG students as per the CBCS (Choice Based Credit System) curriculum.

The CUIC, she said, has evolved Industrial Associateship Scheme to rope in small, medium and large scale industries; research institutions; and educational institutions for collective endeavours. The Centre will also conduct orientation programmes on industrial expectations for the benefit of students; conduct programmes on current topics of national interest for industrial personnel; and help in establishing institution-industry interaction centres in affiliated colleges. The university, she said, would conduct campus interviews twice a year for students in UG and PG programmes, Dr.Meena added.

Mr. Usman observed that candidates in Tiruchi region were as much efficient as their counterparts in metros, and informed that the TCS would conduct another job fair here during June-July, and wanted the selected students to act as ambassadors by bringing in more number of efficient candidates.

The president of the College Governing Council M.Jayaraman lauded the organizers for creating the opportunity for students to make their abilities surface. The Principal V.Sujatha said maximum efforts will never go waste.

Speakers complimented a physically disabled candidate, Rajalingam, an M.A. Economics final year student at St. Joseph's College, who completed his UG with 65 per cent score at the Arignar Anna Government Arts College, Musiri, for emerging successful. The Director of CUIC M.Rajendra Prasad and the Secretary of the college governing council K.Rangarajan took part.

Students from tier-II cities assert efficiency in TCS job fair

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