Placement Coordinators
| Sr.NO. | Name | Designation | Department | Email Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Training and Placement Officer | crc@raiuniversity.edu |
INTRODUCTION
Industry Internship is an integral part of the academic curricula. Its satisfactory completion is a mandatory requirement for the degree to be awarded by the University. Further, considering the curriculum structure approved by the University, multiple internship modes are possible and are assigned academic credits within the curricula. The general structure of the internship requires the students to undertake an immersive assignment within the assigned organizations for a limited period. The internship offers the students an opportunity to gain hands-on industrial or organizational exposure; to integrate the knowledge and skills acquired through the coursework; interact with professionals and other interns; and to improve their presentation, writing, and communication skills. Internship often acts as a gateway for final placement for many students. The internship will benefit students by getting real-time industry experience and exposure, exploring the career opportunities, add values, skills, and experience to their CV and learn company culture.
OBJECTIVES
Internships are educational and career development opportunities, providing practical experience in a field or discipline. Internships are far more important, as employers are looking for employees who are properly skilled and have awareness about the industry environment, practices, and culture. The internship is structured, short-term, supervised training often focused on particular tasks or projects with defined time scales.
The following are the intended objectives:
↪ To expose the students to an industrial environment for the application of existing knowledge in industrial situations
↪ To provide possible opportunities to learn and sharpen the real-time technical and managerial skills required for a professional career
↪ Understand the social, environmental, economic and administrative considerations that influence the working environment.
↪ To get acquainted with the working styles of industries at different hierarchies and learn to work in a team
↪ To gain experience in all types of professional communications ( viz. pre-internship applications, during internships people skills and documentation skills, and post-internship reports/projects writing skills )
↪ To demonstrate the impact of the internship on their lifelong learning and professional development To provide the linkages of future job/research opportunities to students in the organization
↪ To provide opportunities to learn, understand and sharpen the real-time managerial skills required for the job.
↪ Promote academic, professional and/or personal development.
↪ Expose the students to future employers.
↪ Understand the psychology of the workers/employees and their habits, attitudes, and approach to problem solving.
NTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
↪ Apply through company website portals
↪ Apply through the Internshala site, where all the first-year students are registered (https://internshala.com/internships/)
↪ Search a company nearby to your residence
↪ Apply based on the companies requirement email to TPO.
↪ Ask for the company from your family/friends contacts
↪ Request Alumni members to support you
↪ To Identify a company through Faculty Mentor/Department Faculty/Placement office
↪ To expose students to the organizational environment, which cannot be experienced in the classroom and hence creating them competent.
INTERSHIP GUIDELINES
Step 1: Request Letter/ Email to college for obtaining No Objection certificate.
Step 2: Students request letter/ profile / interest areas may be submitted to industries for their willingness.
Step 3: Industry will confirm the training slots and the number of seats allocated for internships via Confirmation Letter/ Email. In case the students arrange the training themselves the confirmation letter will be submitted by the students in the office of Training & Placement coordinator.Students to meet their Faculty members who are particularly looking after the Final/Summer Internship of the students.
Step 4: Students on joining Training at the concerned Industry / Organization, submit the Joining Report/ Letters / Email.
Step 5: Students will submit a training report after completion of internship.
Step 6: List of students who have completed their internship successfully will be issued a certificate by the office of the Dean / HoD.
Step 7. Students who have completed their internship have to submit a Student internship feedback form ( Annexure 1)
INTERSHIP REPORT
After completion of Internship, the student should prepare a report to indicate what he has observed and learnt in the training period. The student may contact the Industrial Supervisor/ Faculty Mentor for assigning special topics and problems and should prepare the final report on the assigned topics. Daily diary will also help to a great extent in writing the industrial report since much of the information has already been incorporated by the student into the daily diary. The training report should be signed by the Internship Supervisor and Faculty Mentor.
The Internship report will be evaluated on the basis of following criteria:-
a. Originality.
b. Adequacy and purposeful write-up.
c. Organization, format, drawings, sketches, style, language etc.
d. Variety and relevance of learning experience.
e. Practical applications, and relationships with basic theory and concepts taught in the course.
Role of Training and Placement Cell in Providing Internship
Rai University has a dedicated training and Placement Cell named as Corporate Resource Cell ( CRC) headed by the Training and Placement Officer. CRC focuses on providing Carer Guidance, training and Placement.
Further, to assist students with industrial internships at the end of the semester warranting internship.
Training & Placement cell provides the following facilities:
↪ Arrange expert lectures, and internships for the students, and conduct the recruitment process for the placement of students in the institution.
↪ CRC conducts workshops that focus on Improving Communication Skills and vocabulary, preparing students for Resume Preparation and writing, discussions, Interview Skills, Aptitude Training and practice Tests, Technical report writing, and presentation skills
Employer Feedback Form– INTERNSHIP Purpose
An internship is a great opportunity to learn in an industrial environment without being an employee of the company. An internship is always more valuable compared to a college project as it enables the interns to understand how companies work, build new contacts, develop a network, and most importantly work on real-life projects executed within the company. Employer Feedback Form is to be collected from the respective Company on the student’s performance during the internship.(Annexure 2)
INTRODUCTION
The Placement Office facilitates students in their career connect. It also helps students in career planning through various training programs such as student self-assessment tests, mock interviews, mentors’ interventions, and employability scores. The Placement Office is also organizing, guest lectures and training programs for enhancing employability skills such as resume building, group discussion and interview skills.
OBJECTIVE
The main objective of the Placement Cell of Rai University is to maximize the placement of pass-out students by grooming them to face the interviews successfully. In lieu of achieving the objective, the following activities are being adopted.
↪ To provide In-house and External training through continuous training modules for enhancing their employability skills
↪ To approach top companies for arranging the campus recruitment drives
↪ Understand the social, environmental, economic and administrative considerations that influence the working environment.
↪ To counsel the students to improve their career exposure across globally
↪ To produce the most competitive students to fit in all scenarios of the job market
PLACEMENT PROCESS
All eligible students for placements are supposed to register themselves under the placement link provided in the Rai University website under the overview section:
=>START
•PLACEMENT PROCESS
=>TARGET CORPORATES
•IDENTIFY CORPORATES
•CONNECT THROUGH PHONE / EMAIL
=>JOB DESCRIPTION
•GET THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND PACKAGE OVER EMAIL
=>JOB DESCRIPTION DISSEMINATION
•DISSEMINATE JOB DESCRITPION TO THE RESPECTIVE PLACEMENT COORDINATOR OF THE DEPARTMENT
=>SHORTLIST INTERESTEDSTUDENTS
•DEPARTMENT PLACEMENT COORDINATOR TO PASS THE PLACEMENT INFORMATION TO STUDENTS VIA WHATS APP GROUP/CLASSROOM
•INTERESTED STUDENTS TO INFORM THE DEPARTMENT PLACEMENT COORDINATOR EXPRESSING THEIR INTERESTS IN ATTENDING THE RECRUITMENT DRIVE.
•DEPARTMENT PLACEMENT COORDINATOR TO PROVIDE THE LIST OF INTERESTED STUDENTS TO THE TPO.
=>INFORMING CORPORATE
•CORPORATE TO BE PROVIDED WITH THE LIST OF INTERESTED STUDENTS FOR THE PLACEMENT DRIVE
=>INVITE THE RECRUITING TEAM
•CORPORATE IS REQUESTED FOR THE TENTATIVE DATE OF INTERVIEW
•THE MODE OF INTERVIEW IS FINALISED BY THE COMPANY VIZ. VIRTUAL OR IN CAMPUS BASED ON THE LIST OF STUDENTS.
=>PRE PLACEMENT TALKS
•PRE PLACEMENT TALKS IS CONDUCTED BY THE COMPANY TO BRIEF THE STUDENTS ON THE COMPANY AND JOB PROFILE ONLINE
•TPO CONDUCTS A PRE PLACEMENT TALK TO STUDENTS BRIEFING THEM ON HOW TO FACE A INTERVIEW.
=>INTERVIEW
•COMPANY TO INFORM THE DATE AND MODE OF CONDUCTING INTERVIEW ONLINE / OFFLINE
=>SELECTION PROCESS
•COMPANY INFORMS TPO VIA EMAIL ON THE STUDENTS SELECTED
=>OFFER LETTERS
•COMPANY PROVIDES THE OFFER LETTER TO THE CANDIDATE AND TPO OF THE STUDENT SELECTED.
General Instructions for Campus Placements
↪ Students studying in final year courses wishing to be considered for programs of the placement services should register through the placement link provided on the Rai University website.
↪ Registered students who are permitted by the Dean /HOD only would be allowed for the placement process.
↪ Students should carry copies of their CVs and Marks sheets in a folder along with passport-size photographs and ID cards for the process.
↪ Dress code for the process is formal. Students should be in time for the placement process and latecomers will not be entertained
↪ Leaving in between the process is not encouraged except that a student has the option not to take part in the process after the initial presentation is made by the company/organization.
↪ Once a student is selected by an organization, as a rule, he/she will not be allowed for further attempts in other organizations. Students are expected not to violate the same.
↪ Registered students are expected to stay in touch with the TPO on a regular basis.
↪ Registered students are also expected to refer to the Placement Cell notice boards/e-placement page on the website.
↪ Registered students called for the campus selection process should make a serious attempt to secure the job offers and should not take the selection process casually. Rejection of pre-placement offer letters by the student is not encouraged.
Once a student has applied for a company, it is mandatory to report on the day of presentation. Not attending the Pre Placement Talk or other on-campus recruitment events after registering for the same will amount to misconduct and students will be suspended from the placement process for a period of 30 (thirty) days or a period as deemed fit by the Placement Office.
However, in the first instance of such misconduct, suspension can be revoked after 30 (thirty) days on the recommendation of the academic mentor or Placement Office with a written undertaking not to repeat the misconduct. If the same misconduct is repeated by the student at any time in the future, the Placement Office may decide to debar the student from the placement process. All decisions of the Placement Office are final and binding in this matter.
JOB OFFERS THROUGH PLACEMENT CELL
a. Students will be provided a maximum of one (1) offer through on-campus placement, subject to meeting the criteria for the same.
b. Students need to inform the Placement Office by email and in person as soon as the job offer has been accepted.
c. Once a student has accepted an offer and/or joined a company, students will not be permitted to apply for any other company through University’s Placement Office.
d. Students upon completing 6 months post joining the company must complete the Student feedback Form ( Annexure 1)
e. Students once facilitated job offer should abide by the rules and the regulations of the employer. University has no control over the administrative system and procedures of the employer’s companies. Student once terminated from an internship offer or final placement offer is not eligible for campus hiring from the university again.
Students need to apply for and collect a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the University before joining the company and shall clear all pending dues prior to joining. The University may take disciplinary action against students who fail to adhere to this guideline, and may also withhold processing of the student’s final degree certificate and transcripts in such circumstances. Students may also be penalized with a fine as deemed appropriate by the Management.
Penalties for Non-Compliance
↪ Every student of Rai University is expected to honour the job offers as provided by companies through the campus recruitment/Placement Office.
↪ To withdraw from an accepted job offer damages not only the student’s future professional reputation but also negatively impacts other students and the University’s image. Such actions spoil Rai University’s relationship with the employer who may decide not to hire from the University in the future.
↪ The withdrawal of an accepted job offer is a serious breach of the Rules and Regulations laid out by the Institute and is subject to immediate debarring of the student from the placement process.
↪ No student is allowed to directly interact with or contact the company’s executives during or after the selection process unless authorized by the Placement Office. Non-compliance will result in debarring of the student from the Placement Process for a period of 30 (thirty) days. If the same misconduct is repeated by the student, the Placement Office may decide to debar the student from the Placement Process. All decisions of the TPO are final and binding in this matter.
↪ Purposefully providing false or inaccurate information in CVs, cover letters, emails or in any other form of communication, including official verbal statements such as interviews is also breach of the Institute’s Rules and Regulations, and may result in debarring from the Placement Process. Any decision regarding the same would be taken by the Placement Office. All decisions of the Placement Office are final and binding in this matter.
EMPLOYER FEEDBACK FORM – PLACEMENT PURPOSE
Rai University offers professional programs. Apart from teaching it becomes essential to make them ready to be placed in industry. For this feedback from employer is essential and thus employers are asked about students’ strong technical knowledge, planning and organization skills, communication skills, practical solutions to work place problems, students being team players, their creativity, ability to use technology. The employers are also asked if the students have strong moral values, ethical conduct, self-motivated and responsible, open to ideas and learning and maintain cordial relations at workplace. Employer Feedback Form is to be collected from the respective Company where the students are placed. ( Annexure 2)