Campus Recruitment Process

Campus Recruitment Process

The recruitment process differs from company to company, but the process is largely divided into three stages i.e, Written Test, Group Discussions & Personal Interview.

Written Test: Some companies conduct written test in two rounds i.e, aptitude & technical test. The aptitude test assesses the numerical, quantitative & verbal aptitude of the candidate, while the technical test assesses a candidate's knowledge on a specific domain or subject.

Group Discussion:
Most of the companies have GD session in their recruitment process, while few companies directly go for personal interview after written test. Group Discussion assesses the candidate's subject knowledge, body language, leadership quality, group behaviour & flexibility nature. Generally group of 6-10 members will be made for discussion. Interviewer may give a topic for discussion or may ask the group to select a topic. Marks will be alloted to the candidate based on parameters like Subject knowledge, Creativity & Originality, Voice, Body language, Eye contact, Analitical ability, Fluency, Initiative, Leadership, Group behaviour, Enthusiasm & Listening. Candidate should not wait for the opportunity but should make an opportunity to involve in discussion.

Personal Interview:
It comprise of technical & HR rounds. The technical round assesses a candidate on the subject know-how and the HR round assesses whether a candidate has the appetite to learn, the ability to work in terms, soft skills, cross-culture adaptability, flexibility & open mindedness. The personal interview stage also helps the company assess whether a specific candidate is the right cultural fit for the company. It is very important for a candidate to be aware of what not to say rather than what to say. Some of the companies like HCL, TCS etc... allows top performing students in academics to directly enter into GD and PI sessions by skipping written tests.

I wish all the best to the final year students

Sharath KS
(Founder, CCS)

IIMs raise their cut-offs

Getting admission into India's top B-School - Indian Institute of Management (IIM) has become no easy task with the raise in cut-off percentiles. IIM-Ranchi has highest cut-off of 99.66 percentile for the 2011-2012 batch. IIM-Calcutta followed with 99.59 percentile. IIM-Ahmedabad plans to call only those with 99 and above for personal interviews, provided they have 94 for each sectional score. Raising the pressure, IIM-Lucknow increased weightage of CAT scores from regular 30% to 37.5% along with fee hike from Rs. 8 lakh to Rs. 12 lakh. IIM-Kozhikode now gives 50% to CAT scores, 15% to GD and social skills, 25% to PI and 10% to writing task.

TOEFL Scholarship : $10,000

Educational Testing Service (ETS) has announced the 2011 TOEFL Scholarship Program to award approximately US$60,000 to Indian students. A total of nine TOEFL scholarships, three US$10,000 and six US$5,000 scholarships will be given. Students need to have secured admission at a college or university listed in the TOEFL Destination Directory in the U.K, Canada and US. Winners will be notified in May 2011. Application deadline : April 15, 2011.
For details visit : http://www.careers360.com/

All The Best

All the best to the final year AITians for the upcoming Campus Recruitments.
Most important aptitude topics :
* Time & Work
* Time & Distance
* Percentage, Profit & Loss
* Numbers & Letter Series
* Boats & Streams
* Problems on Ages