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A platform for the job seeker and the job giver

When Shabna Ahmed, a student of information technology (IT), walked out of The Hindu Opportunities Fair on Saturday afternoon, she was disappointed; even frustrated. As a student of the IT programme at the MAS College of Engineering, Venjaramoodu, near Thiruvananthapuram, she was in the `fresher' category. She, like hundreds of others like her, was told to drop her resume and leave.

When Shabna walked out of the fair on Sunday evening, she was beside herself with joy. She was placed in the `unenviable' position of having to choose between two job offers: one from Wipro BPO and one from SlashSupport. "I am so happy that I don't know what to say," she told The Hindu , "while Wipro has said it will let me know when to join, Slash has asked me to join in July." Shabna sat through a group discussion and a technical interview before she got the job offer from the two companies.

Anish Kumar Pillai, a native of Pathanamthitta studying IT at the Nehru College of Engineering, Thrissur, was, so to say, at the other end of the spectrum at the fair. Unlike Shabna, he did not land any job. In fact, he could do nothing more than hand his resume around. Yet, he was very pleased that The Hindu could provide such a platform to bring together the job seeker and the job giver. But yes, he would have preferred more `spot offers' for freshers too at the fair.

T.S. Naveen, a final year student of computer science at the Mohandas College of Engineering at Anad, near Thiruvananthapuram, was one who, along with several of his friends, stood in line for hours in front of the US Technologies stall to submit his resume. Though Naveen has not yet had a job offer, he said one of his friends had appeared for the interview and was waiting for the outcome. Anyway Naveen and his friends — like many other `freshers' like them — have their fingers crossed. And, perhaps, this will not be in vain as many companies are currently processing the hundreds of resumes they received; keeping a sharp eye out for the right candidate.

G. Mahadevan

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