Business houses eyeing candidates from NE
By A City Reporter
GUWAHATI, Dec 9 The dream of north-eastern students to work in big
conglomerates has started turning into a reality.
Whereas students of the region are getting maximum benefits and opportunities
through association with the brand names, the firms too are queuing up in
search of skilled and stable manpower from the region.
Workforce from the region and the State managed to come in the good books of
the management and IT companies by dint of their commitment and a stable
pattern of working in comparison to the workforce from other parts of the
country, feels Pratul Chandra Kalita, Institute Coordinator of the North East
Professional Institutes Forum (NEPIF).
The NEPIF is a joint forum of 11 premier engineering and management institutes
of North East India endorsed by the institute authorities. The forum has
already organized six common placement events for its member institutes, from
where organisations like ICICI Bank, Genpact, Satyam, Colgate Palmolive, Kanbay
(Capgemini) TCS and TVS Motors have picked up 126 of the students.
According to an estimate, the State requires raising its capacity by 17 times
over the existing infrastructure in degree engineering level and five times
over the existing capacity in diploma engineering level to be at par with other
States of the country. However, despite this, the students from this region
have managed to have a sizeable presence in the BPO sector of the country.
The companies that have planned a visit in the State in the coming days are
TCS, Infosys Technologies, Infosys BPO, Wipro Technologies, First Source
(Formerly known as ICICI one Source), IBM Daksh Bangalore and IBM Daksh,
Gurgaon.
Recently the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) recruited six students from
Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Nalbari, and the next event was held on December 3 at
the Department of Chemistry, Cotton College by IBM Daksh, Banglore for
graduates in any discipline passing out in 2008. Infosys Technologies Limited
and Infosys BPO will recruit students at the same venue it was learnt.
They have profiles for various domains such as Banking, Insurance, Telecom,
Procurement, Customer service, Financial & Accounting, Knowledge Service, HR
Operations, Life Sciences & Order Management, he added.
Our other placement events will take place on December 10 and 11. We have also
initiated talks with some of the firms like Vodafone and Kotak but their visit
is still to be finalised, added Kalita.
Recently, Wipro BPO, the BPO arm of global IT giant Wipro, and Gauhati
University (GU) organized a mega job fair for students of the university. In
this first ever partnership at this scale in the north-eastern part of the
country, Wipro selected around 42 students for providing job in BPO.
Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, training and placement officer, GU said, Nearly 42
students are selected by Wipro during the fair. Those selected are graduates
from different colleges under the GU.
Though the State and the region can not boast of the best quality
infrastructure in its education sector, the number of students joining the job
after getting through the selection procedure is higher than many of the
leading States of the country.
This credibility and the dedication of the North-east work force is sure to
draw the national and multinational companies for the recruitment drive to the
region in future, added Kalita.
(The Assam Tribune,10.12.2007)
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