Jadavpur University (JU) placement drive is receiving a commendable response from the companies amid COVID-19 lockdown.
Jadavpur University (JU) placement drive is receiving a commendable response from the companies amid COVID-19 lockdown. According to the reports, an official of the institute stated, “At least 85 firms, both Indian and MNCs, from various segments have made job offers to students of the Jadavpur University (JU) and the novel coronavirus outbreak has not affected the ongoing placement drive so far.”
The University commenced its placement drive in August last year. According to the data revealed by the JU placement cell official, the maximum salary offered so far is Rs 58 lakh per annum. In 2019, the University received the apex offer of Rs 42 lakh per annum in the previous placement drive.
The JU official further added that around 4 students managed to bag job offers of more than Rs 50 lakh. So far the University achieved eighty-four per cent placement. A total of 770 students from both undergraduate and post-graduate engineering streams have got job offers.
The Jadavpur University placement drive witnessed recruiters from various sectors such as banking, engineering and FMCG, pharmaceuticals, etc. Some of the recruiters are Texas Instruments, CocaCola, Cipla, Airbus, CESC Ltd, Mercedes Benz, Citi Bank, ADB,Siemens and HSBC.
Talking about conducting a placement drive in the midst of the economic crisis, the official said "We have not seen any noticeable change in the behavior of the recruiters in the wake of the pandemic and the lockdown. We hope it will remain as such. Four big firms have already taken interviews of students during the lockdown period and made good offers while two more will pitch in with offers in the coming days."
When asked about a report claiming that a US-based analytics consultancy firm backed out after giving job offers to 12 students, JU Pro-VC Chiranjib Bhattacharya said, “That is not the correct picture. Our placement record this year is even better than many IITs. The novel coronavirus outbreak has not made any impact on the recruitment drive in JU till now."
The institute only confirmed a US-based firm putting the recruitment process on hold for the time being.
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