BANGALORE: Team Lease Services, India’s staffing solutions company and Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT), a vocational skills training company organised a job fair for youth in Bangalore recently. The job fair was conducted with an aim to connect job aspirants with employers, assessment counselors and training professionals. Top companies like Value Point Systems, Linkin Consulting and Karvy Consultants, TSG Global, Ascent consulting, Avishkaar Techno solutions, Puma and Trimax Infrastructure participated in the job fair. The job fair drew around 220 candidates and around 70 candidates were shortlisted. The breakup of the shortlisted candidates is as follows: According to Shajan Samuel Divisional Head IIJT Education, “This is the third successive Job fair in consecutive month organised by IIJT Education at Bangalore and in all these Job fair’s our effort has been to align job profiles with Domain Knowledge, with the influx of engineering colleges which don’t have a tight entry gate, campus placements are becoming a huge challenge, leaving students in the lurch and with no options but to attend job fair’s to get placed, the worst hit are the BTech students, quality teaching has been circumspect and promises are not being kept by substandard engineering colleges which have mushroomed in numbers over the last five years.”Engineering colleges in India now have seats for 1.5 million students, nearly four times the 390,000 available in 2000, according to the National Association of Software and Services Companies, a trade group. But 75 per cent of technical graduates and more than 85 per cent of general graduates are unemployable by India’s high-growth global industries, including information technology and call centers, according to results from assessment tests administered by the group.Their success in placing students through these Job fairs have been modest, 45 per cent candidates go through the second round and 20 per cent gets selected , our average turn out in Bangalore for the last three months have been around 200, the reason for rejects remains the same, communication skills, lateral thinking and comprehension Shajan further added, “What an IIJT Job fair does is that it’s gives repetitive chances for a fresh graduate to get a Job ,also it offers diversity in Job roles, salaries, industries, we have built a data bank of candidates who have attended our previous Job fair and keep in touch with them. We don’t charge money from the client nor the students, for us at IIJT is a dial tone we want to develop , over a period of time we want to be known as a Private Employment Exchange which does Placement and Training.”
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