Significance of Training and Placement Cell in Engineering Colleges

In today’s education system, we can see a significant skill gap. Out of the lot 80% of the engineering graduates are unemployed, and hence a need for an upgraded education system arises. Most of the graduated students look out for jobs either in software or core engineering fields, but only few are able to fulfill the requisite according to the desired skills. In today’s world, engineering has become one of the common graduation degrees among en number of students. One can find every second person as an aspiring engineer.  In spite of, improving the educational standards, it is more essential to evolve some undergraduate programs to make the folks more job-centric. Considering all the cities, Pune still continues to produce the highest number of engineers. The primary reasons for such poor job scopes or opportunities include an inadequate knowledge about the domain area, the inability to relate basic concepts and principles applied in the fields of computer or mechanical engineering to real-world problems etc. There is a vivid gap in the culture taught and learned by majority of institutes even though the concepts and principles exist in the curriculum designed for colleges. In such situations Campus placement plays a vital role. It fulfills the gap by giving right opportunity to the students. A job suitable to one’s profile is handed over. Campus placement is the program conducted by training and placement cell of every engineering institute to provide jobs to students appearing their final year of engineering. In this program, various industries visit the colleges and select the students based on their skills, academic records, determination, focus and their aim.

Training and placement cell is an integral part of every institute. The cell is sensitized to function throughout the year for generating placements and training opportunities for the students. They also provide different soft and hard skills training to the students during vacation and also during regular college hours. Campus placement hence should be on top of every student’s checklist before considering any Engineering Institute. Shree Ramchandra College of Engineering is one of the best colleges in Wagholi, Pune. SRCOE has also build training and placement cell, as it resembles the mirror or face of any institute.  A student seeking admission in any college, first tries to find out the placement assistance that the other students have received in the past.  The higher the number of placements, the better the college and it would be the best for students facing the present competitive world. But only a few colleges succeed in attracting renowned companies for campus drive in their respective colleges, and hence such colleges have more advantages over the others.

The ultimate aim of Training & Placement Cell in SRCOE is to provide employment opportunities and world class training to Students in Leading Organizations. The Cell is well equipped with ample infrastructure such as testing halls, consultancy hall etc. for activities like Pre Placement Talk, Presentations and Group discussion etc. Training and Placement cell is an apt place to be in touch with from an industrial point of view. It is also very useful for industries that are willing to recruit fresher’s.  The range of activities which the industry wants to take up from an institute directly depends on the active role of Training and Placement officer and his team. More energetic and vibrant the Officer, the more energetic and vibrant would be the placement cell. Asst. Prof.Sneha Deshmukh is the Training and Placement officer at SRCOE.

Following are the functions done by the Training and Placement cell

• ·        To assist the development and maintenance of the database of every student.
• ·   Prepare the student’s database with all relevant information such as Personal details, Academic details, Achievement, extra skills set etc. 
• ·        Guide students to prepare their Resume and maintains a separate file for resumes in both soft as well as hard copy with required certificates.
• ·     A list of companies / organizations with brief profile, address, contact details of concerned HR person etc to be maintained.
• ·        To invite promising companies to campus for recruitment.
• ·        Conduct regular soft and hard skill sessions for the students.
• ·        Conduct aptitude practice test for students.
• ·         Conduct personality development programs and career counseling programs for students.
• ·        Arranging industrial visits for students & faculties at reputed industries. 
• ·       Taking regular feedback from industries about the performance of the students and department and find out the weaknesses in  students

                        

 

 The cell also arranges training programs at various reputed industries like Maruti Udyog Ltd., L&T, Havells, DRDO, CSIO, Ericsson, Siemens, Reliance Group, HCL, Samsung, LG etc. The training programs are held at the end of 4^th semester. Training is of 4 weeks and by the end of 6^th - 8^th semester, the training increases up to 6 weeks. The students act as a channel of communication with the industries. It also encourages students to participate in technical paper presentation that are held in collaboration with various industries so that, students can discuss about new developments and trends in market. Training and placement cell enables students to get the right job at the right time and also at the right place.