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Thousands line up for campus recruitment

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Placement programme at Anna University Placement Programme at Anna University

TESTING TIMES: Aspirants wait for their turn at a recruitment process conducted at Anna University on Sunday. — Photo: S.R. Raghunathan

CHENNAI : More than 4,000 students from all over Tamil Nadu lined up for the off-campus recruitment drive conducted by an information technology firm at Anna University on Sunday under the Tamil Nadu State Level Placement Programme.

Authorities had a tough time managing the serpentine queues of students from self-financing engineering colleges affiliated to the university, at the drive organised by HCL Technologies Limited.

Most aspirants came early in the morning for the written examination conducted in three batches by the company for recruiting nearly 1,000 software engineers, primarily for their 25 facilities in Chennai.

Other than graduates and post-graduates in engineering (computer science/ IT/ ECE/ EEE/ E&I/I&C) who passed out in May 2006 with more than 70 per cent aggregate score, those who completed MCA and MSc (Computer Science/IT/Software Engineering) also were on the university campus by 7 a.m. The registration extended well into late afternoon, said P. Mannar Jawahar, director, Centre for University-Industry Collaboration.

According to HCL's senior HR manager D. Prince Jayakumar, out of 1,000 persons required, 200 have already been selected in the course of similar drives held in Salem, Nagercoil and Madurai.

"Chennai is our mainstay. We expect to select another 800 today," he said, adding that those short-listed will be emailed about interview sessions to be conducted next week at the same venue.

The company has already hired over 5,000 students from all over the country for 2007. "This drive is to fill up the shortfall of 1,000 vacancies pending from 2005," he added.

Some of the Chennai candidates as well as outstation aspirants, who had come ready with all documents, said the company could have organised screening procedures to avoid the seemingly unending wait.

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