Best Practices – 1

1. Title of the Practice: Training & Placement – the need of the hour

In the era of digitalization, students and parents, both, are equally concerned about the placement process of a college as their academic curriculum. One of the factors which makes the students career life successful is the set of placement practices adopted by the college. The main goal of Training and Placement Cell is to bridge the gap between the stringent competition in the industry and talent available in the college. The Darshan College has a well fortified Training and Placement cell which takes care of all the training and placement related activities right from the admission of the student till they are onboard in their respective job.

The main endeavor of the placement cell is to get students placed in reputed multinationals, government organisations, NGO's and the private sector. All students of the college will be provided placement assistance, counseling for employment and self/Social enterpreneurship. The cell assures logistic support to the visiting companies at every stage of the placement process by making the college infrastructure available to them. It plays a pivotal role in counseling and guiding the students for their successful career, which is a crucial interface between the stages of completion of academic program of the students and their entry into the job market. The departments aim is to provide career guidance and placement opportunities to all students studying in the College. Training and Placement Department arranges and coordinates various programs that aim at moulding the students so as to meet the industry expectations in their career building and in turn bring laurels to the parent institution. The department sincerely believes in imparting comprehensive training to the students to face the challenges of the dynamic and demanding job market and build a successful career for themselves.

The Placement Cell organizes career guidance programmes for all the students starting from first year. The cell arranges training programmes like Mock Interviews, Group Discussions, Time Management, Personal grooming, Inter and Intra personal skills, Team Building, Aptitude skills, Logical reasoning, Communication Skills, Mock Interview Sessions. It also organizes Public Sector Exam Training for students who are interested to join Government Sectors. Value Added Courses are conducted for the students in the area of emerging technologies and for covering the contents beyond curriculum. It also invites HR Managers from different industries to conduct training programmes for the students. The College also provides free online soft skill and technical training certification courses for all the final year students which help them to crack the interviews.

The college has taken the pride in excellent placement record since its establishment and the fact our students are ingenious alumnae who have set new standards in the corporate world through their admirable contributions. The Institute has MOUs with Corporate, and Training Institutes which motivates and enables the students industry ready. The proven capabilities of our Graduates have helped us to invite increasing number of new Industries for Placement opportunities like Bharthi AXA Life insurance, AXIS Bank, Calib HR, Labour NET, ALLSCE Technologies limited , ACCSYS .DOT Technology, Infosys, Pirmal Finance,24/7 AI,HDB financial services, Accenture, ARMOR, Credit Access Capegemini, JP MORGAN MERCK,EOX Vontage, VALENTA, Reliance ,Muthoot Finance Ltd, INDUSIND Bank, Bajaj Allianz, Impact Infotech Quess corp Spectrum Management , Bank Zone, Im Trust solution HDBFS HSBC Bank and SMSL limited

The institution is working hard to reduce the gap between what the market demands and the knowledge level of the students. There are some challenges encountered by the college like time constraint, cost to the company, volatile nature of Industry, core company recruit in small numbers and few more. Interview time and company requirement sometimes clash with the University calendar. Webinar series on pre-placement training, online career guidance and experts talk on the digital platform has helped to overcome of the challenges and has reduced the industry academia gap which has helped to overcome some of the challenges and maximize the opportunities for the students.