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Employment officers to don new avatar

BHUBANESWAR: With government jobs drying up and private institutions making search for quality manpower, District Employment Officers are ready to shed their traditional image of ‘record keeper’ to become ‘master placement officers’ for general colleges in Orissa.

Orissa government has roped in city-based B-School Xavier Institute of Business Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), which has already conceptualized a training module to help the employment officers don the new avatar.

Thirty district employment officers from all districts and 10 other employment officers will undergo a five-day special training programme which is expected to take place in the month of September.

Under the programme, dubbed as unique in the whole country, the officers will learn the arts of preparing brochure detailing available manpower in their respective districts, networking with private companies and suggesting private institutions on suitable candidates.

“We will be imparting training to DEOs basing our experience at XIMB for conducting annual placements. The officers will be asked to go through XIMB bulletins and taught as to how they could prepare similar material,” says Niraj Kumar, who will be one of the trainers for the programme.

He says all the engineering colleges had their own placement officers to facilitate job providers for face-to-face with job seekers while many of the general colleges have not made attempts in this direction.

The view is reflected in the government letter sent to XIMB. “As a number of private companies are approaching general colleges, government and private industrial training centres for recruitments, we would like to train our DEOs to act as placement officers in the district and advise the institutions concerned properly.”

The State government, in association with XIMB, had earlier trained 42 lecturers of different colleges as placement officers. Now it wanted to train DEOs to act as Master Placement Officers in districts.

“The advantage is manifold. While the State government will utilize the services of DEOs in a better manner, companies will find impartial agencies available in each district to suggest them on recruitment. Moreover, the effort will prevent uneven salaries being offered by companies to students of different colleges,” says Prof. Kumar.

Major IT and ITES companies have already started picking up students from general colleges so much so that students from naxalite-infested Malkanagiri to tribal dominated Sundargarh district have recently got jobs in BPO companies.

The XIMB professor hopes that the success of DEOs in conducting placement activities in their new avatars will go a long way in creating new job markets for manpower-hungry companies.

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