Apple, UIDAI among firms for IIT-M campus recruitment

Around 270 companies are expected to visit that campus and offer students over 400 job profiles. Last year, 250 companies visited the campus with the same number of job profiles.

Apart from Apple, other firms arriving for recruitment for the first time include Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), UBS AG, Nasdaq Stock Market, Alvarez and Marsal India Pvt Ltd, Country Garden, Halma India Pvt Ltd, Rubrik, and Sekisui Chemical.

Nearly 15 percent of the registered companies are first-time companies. Traditional recruiters such as Microsoft, Samsung R and D, Goldman Sachs, Eaton, Schlumberger, Mahindra, Intel, Bajaj, EXL, Citi, Larsen and Toubro will be hiring this year as well.

Meanwhile,35 students have opted to pursue Start-up ventures or plan to apply for higher studies.

Manu Santhanam, Advisor, Training and Placement, IIT Madras, said, “Our team of students and the staff at the IIT-M Placement Office has worked hard to bring in a large number of recruiters to the campus, and thanks to their efforts, this placement season looks promising. We have already seen a major jump in the number of Pre-Placement Offers (PPO), so we are hoping that the success translates into the placements too.” About 43 per cent of the recruiters are from core engineering and Research and Development sectors, 25 percent from finance, analytics, consulting sectors, and 32 per cent from the IT sector.

The Institute will host over 50 start-ups this year. This year, with a view of reducing the stress faced by the students in the early phase of the process, IIT Madras has done away with the ‘Graveyard Slot,’ which begins the early hours of Day One (December 1), usually from 12 midnight to 6 am.

The first phase of campus recruitment for 2017-18 will be held between December 1 and 10, with a one-day break on December 5.