Campus Placement is the program conducted within Placement Cell of Department of Computer Engineering to provide jobs to students pursuing or in the stage of completing their Bachelors of Technology programme. In this programme, industries visit the college to select students depending on their ability to work, capability, focus and aim. The major objective of campus placement is to identify the talented and qualified professionals before they complete their education. There is a pre-placement talk for the students which includes a presentation about the company. Basically the presentation includes the information like selection procedure, company’s milestones, organizational achievements, candidate scope of improvement within the organization if selected, salary, employment benefits. Usually this presentation ends up with question and answer session, students given chance to ask questions about. Different companies that visit the campus for placements have certain procedures that is set by companies for selection of appropriate candidates. These procedures may be different from company to company.
Companies visiting the campus for recruitment purpose has specific qualification criteria. Qualification criteria includes marks, grades range or total percentage of the Btech programme. Qualified students then undergo a test. This is usually a simple aptitude test but depending on company and the position looking for, the difficulty level of the test may be at the higher side. The qualified students also have to go through technical round in which company sets specific time to clear this round. Purpose of this round is to check the coding skills of the candidate which after all is important for software developing companies. Some of the companies may have a Group Discussion round as a filtering round. This round may or may not be conducted. A common topic is placed before the group and a formal discussion or knowledge sharing is expected by the interviewer. Purpose of this round is to check communication skills, etiquette of person, listening ability, convincing power, group leadership, leader or follower and many more thing are evaluated on the basis of requirement or the particular intention of company. It is very important to keep yourself updated with latest news and discussion topics for appearing in GD round. After clearing all these rounds a formal interview is conducted, where the student’s stability and his confidence level towards the particular work will be evaluated. The interview focuses on overall personality of the candidate. The more practical application knowledge a candidate has, the more chances of their selection increase. So having worked on projects in the industry, internships in relevant companies and industry visits to brands in the same sector will enhance a candidate's chance of selection.