Placement programme by Anna University
Posted on: 07/Mar/2014 12:08:19 PM
Anna University is conducting attended the Tamil Nadu State Level Placement Programme (TNSLPP) exclusively for Infosys, managed to impress the IT major on Friday and Saturday.
As many as 2,307 BE/BTech passouts in university`s colleges and self-financing institutions affiliated to the university attended the programme held in Chennai in December last year.
Another batch of 2,707 students attended the programme in Coimbatore, and in Madurai the count was 2,376. Of this, 700 were placed in Infosys. This year, IIT-Madras managed to place a little more than 50% of candidates eligible for recruitment in the first phase of their placement season.
The TNSLPP is conducted at the fag end of the placement season, by which time most companies have already paid a visit to tier 1 colleges and recruited the desired number of students. This programme is usually an opportunity that the university provides for students from smaller institutions to get a campus placement, according to academics.
In a press release, T Thyagarajan, director of the university`s Centre for University Industry Collaboration, said some of the eligible students could not participate due to non-registration / non-generation of the hall ticket for an online test, conducted as a requirement for participation in the placement drive. He said Infosys has consented to conduct another placement camp for these students in Chennai on Friday and Saturday.
Eligible students will receive an invitation mail from Infosys. They will have to go through the registration process and generate the hall ticket to appear for the online test. The recruitment process will include a computerized aptitude test and a technical interview, followed by an HR interview. Around 3,000 students are expected to participate in the programme.
