Campus Placement / Recruitment Preparation 

Campus recruitment is the first step to professional life for Engineers and MBA's. It is very important that you get into the best of the companies in the campus placement. As this is your first job, it is also important that you get attached to a good brand in the market. But, with competition at its helm and with more and more students passing out of Engineering and MBA colleges, campus placement is not a cake walk. It requires a planned and organized preparation before you can get into your dream company.

• First task at hand is to prioritize the companies  and job profile in order of your preference. Research well before prioritizing so that you know exactly what you are looking forward to.

• Know what are the basic criteria to be fulfilled so that you know whether you can apply to these organizations. You should know the cut-off marks, educational background required to join the organizations.

• When do these companies come for campus placement, do they come to your campus, can you apply if they come to another campus, these are questions which you should try to answer.

• What is the selection process of the company, e.g. is there a GD, Interview, JAM, Aptitude Tests etc. If yes then what is the pattern, read previous years experiences / question papers. Know the pattern really well so that you are confident.

• Practice these tests at least for 1 hr every day starting 3 months before the placements, this will give you the speed and understanding required to crack the campus placement test.

• Know about the company, read through its website, read about the recent news articles about the company. It will help you be up to date in the interview.

• Brush up your technical / academic basics and also current affairs, these are important for the interviews.

• Read news paper editorials, weekly magazines to know more about the current topics being debated. This will help you contribute to the GD well.

• Introspect, know more about yourself, your strengths, weakness, ambitions etc. This will help you in answering the HR interview with more confidence.

• Gather a group to discuss current topics, it will help you gain confidence in handling GD and also you will get more view points from your friends.

• Ask, one of your friend to conduct a mock interview. Analyze, how it went through.

You can also look forward to joining a good placement training institute for more exposure for campus placements.

- Ajay Zener (Consultant Trainer - VERTEX)