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Record placements at College of Engineering

Staff Reporter

742 jobs offered at campus recruitment

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : Nearly 742 students landed jobs at leading IT companies in the first phase of campus placement for students of College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram.

In 2005, only 671 students had found placements with various firms. The second round of placements this year will begin in November. The second round is usually set apart for `tech firms'. As many as 24 IT firms, including Microsoft, Cognizant Technology Solutions, IBM, Wipro, Mind Tree and HCL turned up at the CET during the first round of placements that began on June 17.

The maximum number of job offers went to students from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering branch -- 128. Mechanical Engineering branch got 108 offers, while students from the Electronics and Communication Engineering branch got 94 job offers. The least number of offers, 27, went to students of the Industrial Engineering branch.

As in the previous years, Cognizant emerged the top recruiter, offering jobs to 227 students. The second, 113, came from IBM. Infosys shorlisted 87 candidates, while TCS absorbed 46 and Mind Tree, 42.

According to the data made available with the Career Guidance and Placement Cell at the CET, the highest salary offer this year, Rs.9.1 lakhs per annum, came from Microsoft. Software firm Symphony offered an annual pay packet of Rs.3.5 lakhs, Infosys Rs.2.7 lakhs, Cognizant Rs.2.4 lakhs, TCS Rs.2.1 lakhs and Wipro Rs.2 lakhs.

Samson, who heads the CGPU at the college, said that only three to four `tech' companies are scheduled to participate in the second round of the campus placement drive. "We are trying to limit the number of companies in the second round. Most of the top talent in the college have already been placed. We want to do justice to the companies in the second round,'' he said.

Dr. Samson said the companies had expressed satisfaction over the level of technical skills and the engineering aptitude of the students. But some companies pointed out that they were not happy with the communication skills of the students, he said.

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