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Campus Recruitment
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praxisgroups
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08/12/2008 03:28:37
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What is Campus Recruitment?
The term Campus Recruitment refers to the system where various organizations
visit to the college (campuses) to recruit bright youngsters to work for them.
Students, who are keen on beginning their professional career as soon as they
finish studies, find the opportunity knocking at their doors. They can thus get
the training and acquire professional skills immediately after college. This is
good opportunity to enter the job market as entry otherwise becomes difficult.
Traditionally campus recruitment happened only at management campuses with the
elite IIMs taking the cake. Later it percolated to the engineering colleges,
again with the elite IITs showing the way. Now with the boom in the IT and ITES
openings, corporate are looking beyond the traditional colleges from which they
recruited. This is obviously a boon to all students who are studying in the
areas that the corporate want to hire from.
The excitement that one witnesses during the Campus recruitment has to be seen
to be believed. There is a palpable sense of anticipation, tension and
eagerness when the companies arrive on campus. After all everyone wants to be
on the list of recruits of an Infosys, a Satyam, a Wipro or an IBM or Microsoft
does one not?
Why Campus Recruitment?
Campus Recruitment provides a platform for the organizations to meet the
aspirants and pick up intelligent, committed youth who have the requisite
enthusiasm and zeal to prove them. In order to find the right candidates,
organizations employ various selection procedures. With the growth in IT/ITES
industries, the need for talented and self-motivated young people who can work
tirelessly has grown. So organizations do not confine themselves to only the
select institutes but spread their net far and wide.
Campus recruitment has also spread from professional colleges (like
engineering) to colleges offering general degrees like B.Com, B.Sc, etc.
Organizations seek to pick up the cream from different colleges. Hence,
students from most good colleges now have a favorable chance to join a reputed
organization without having to scrutinize diligently the 'wanted' columns.
Organizations recruiting through campus selection include leading players like
Infosys, T.C.S, Satyam, C.T.S, and Wipro.
Now one also needs to understand why it is that corporate are beginning to lay
a lot of emphasis on campus recruitment. In today’s world it is a war out
there. A war to hire the right kind of talent. Capable and hardworking manpower
is the best asset that any company can have. And the company that manages to
hire and retain the right kind of talent can hope to best its rivals in the
market place. Hence the importance of Campus Recruitment.
It is easy for companies to reach a particular college and conduct recruitments
there rather than reach out to a whole lot of individuals via newspapers etc.
Now this trend is here to stay. It therefore makes a lot of sense to be
thoroughly prepared for the Campus Recruitment by the companies.
The Selection Process:
The various stages of the selection process remain generally the same for these
companies, with some slight variations. This could be in the form of an
additional or fewer numbers of stages for some companies.
The following are the stages that students normally go through as a part of Campus
Recruitment:
(i) Aptitude Test (ii) GD (iii) Interviews
Aptitude Test:
Aptitude test is a structured systematic way of evaluating how people perform
on tasks or react to different situations. Aptitude tests are designed to test
the presence of certain innate abilities required for a particular line of work
or study. They generally test students in areas such as Quantitative Methods,
Verbal Ability, Logical Reasoning and Basic Domain Knowledge. An aptitude test
is used as a process of filtration to reduce the number of candidates for
further rounds of selection process.
Obviously when the companies are hiring from campuses they are looking at
certain skill sets in an individual. They would like to ensure that the
candidates are good with their quantitative skills, reasoning ability and have
acceptable levels of communication skills. These they check through a series of
tests that they administer.
The Aptitude test that they administer tests the candidates’ quantitative
ability to deal with figures and analyse mathematical data that may help arrive
at sound business decisions.
The kind of questions that are asked or the topics that are tested depends
entirely on the Company. For instance the Infosys test paper has a section on
puzzles. The Wipro aptitude test paper has questions on subject knowledge.
These sections are critical. [Explain briefly why]
So as mentioned earlier there is no uniformity on the kind of questions asked
or the topics tested. This makes it doubly important to ensure that one is
adequately prepared for the test. And we make sure that students who go through
our course are prepared for any kind of a question that is thrown at them.
The importance of the Aptitude Tests cannot be underrated .However good one
might be in technical skills or in soft skills like language, communication
etc. if one does not clear the Aptitude Test one will not go to the next stage.
The next stage in the selection process is the Group Discussion.
Group Discussion:
A group discussion or GD is conducted to test the following skills of
candidates -
- Inter personal - listening, speaking,
receptiveness, team spirit, etc.,
- Clarity of thought - Knowledge and the
ability to link known facts
- Communication skills - Coherence
A GD is a process of SELECTION as against a process of ELIMINATION. The
intention is to select the best students who possess the desired skills and not
to reduce the number of candidates being considered for the next stage/s.
In a GD a group of students is asked to discuss a topic given to them. The
reason companies conduct a GD is to check on certain attributes of the
candidate. The abilities that a company looks for in a person are clarity of
thought and clarity of language. They also look for the ability to understand and
structure a response to the topic. They also look for innate leadership skills
that a student exhibits.
Interview:
An interview helps the recruiters to get to know the person behind the test
scores and what is mentioned in the application and CV. The recruiters use the
interview process to evaluate the candidate on various aspects such as goals,
attitude, motivational levels, ability to react to situations, etc. An
interview also helps the company assess the cultural fit between the company
and the student.
The interviews that companies conduct can be of two kinds. The first one would
be an HR interview and the second would be a technical interview. Certain
companies depending on their requirement would conduct one or the both these
kinds of interviews.
In addition to the above, some companies may also have a psychometric test as a
part of the selection process.
Each of these stages is eliminatory.
Salaries: Different companies have their own salary structure, but an
indicative range is between Rs.10,000 to Rs.25,000 per month.
Scope in BPOs: Various BPOs and Call Centers recruit people for software jobs
like software programming, customer support or network administration. BPOs may
not be dealing directly with software development but could be dealing in
sales, customer support, networking and administration. Usually, BPOs select
non-engineers for sales and engineers for network administration. If the BPO
caters to technical requirements, then customer support is another option for a
candidate.
Need for preparation: In order to find the best possible placement, students,
good or mediocre, need to put up their best. While more companies are now
recruiting one must realize that the competition has become stiffer. It must
also be borne in mind that organizations do not want to compromise on quality,
as the salary offered is good. So, even good students need to polish their
speed and accuracy, through regular practice and thus give a credible
performance.
The Campus Recruitment Training Offered by us:
Campusrecruitment.co.in has a programme designed to train students for all the
stages of Campus Recruitment. This programme is continuously updated as per the
changes in the recruitment procedures of various corporate to ensure right
focus.
The subjects Prepared for the aptitude tests are - Quantitative ability,
Reasoning, Verbal and Basic Computer Skills. To prepare the candidate for the
next stages, i.e. Group Discussion, Interviews and Psychometric tests, classes
are given in Communication Skills which include Mock Group Discussions, Mock
Interviews (HR & Technical) and Psychometric tests.
Highlights: Following are some of the salient features of the Campus
Recruitment Training course offered by campusrecruitment.co.in
- 24/7 Tutor Support: By using this
facility you need not sit in the classroom of 500 people and you don’t want to
prepare in a predefined time, whenever you are free to learn for something then
just sigh in to Campusrecruitment.co.in and
prepare for your career,
- User Interface Technology,
- Less price & High Quality.
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