Interview: An overview-cum-guide

An interview is an interactive process which facilitates a selection committee to evaluate interpersonal attributes and communication skills of an individual and assess his understanding of wide variety of personal, social, technological issues around a person, besides his desire and ambition.

Outlook ranking parameter wise breakdown

After getting a reasonably good rank, many of us are still regretting for IIITM Gwalior not making it into the elite 10. Now since we are in top 25, getting into the league of elite 10 is the next challenge for which we have to travel a long journey, which would take a few more years. Looking at the pace we are moving at  now, being amongst the top 10 engineering institutions is not a day dream.

IIITM Gwalior
ranked       3rd  in Top 10 Engineering Colleges with Doctorates in Faculty  

ranked       23rd (140.7)  in  Selection Process

ranked       20th (148.0)  in  Academic Excellence

ranked       20th (117.0)  in  Personality Development and Individual Interface

ranked       31st (119.9)  in  Infrastructure

ranked       26th (113.5 ) in  Placements

ranked       25th (639.1)  in  Overall score

IT companies decide to hire only in last semester: The IIITM perspective

NASSCOM has already given a clear indication of moving placement activities to last semester few months back, this week's IT companies' unanimous decision has abridged supplementary brainworks.

“All our member companies have unanimously taken this decision. The change is not only for this year, it is permanent,” said Som Mittal, president of software industry body Nasscom. The decision taken by Nasscom is unlikely to be reversed even if demand picks up. In fact, the trend may even catch up with companies outside the IT industry.(source:ET Bureau).

Note: the placement figure for 2008-09 is old, the latest is 85%

This news has many implications for IT institutes. Being an apex IT and management institute in the country, IIITM Gwalior owes larger responsibilities.


"As being a research oriented institute, placement was never a big concern for us. We should focus on imparting a quality education in knowledge economy and should strive together towards global excellence", says Prof S.G. Deshmukh, director ABV-IIITM Gwalior.

IIITM Gwalior is ingrained for its distinguished 5-year integrated postgraduate program. So, it may work in both directions for the institute.

"Here companies start visiting the campus in IXth semester, so shifting the placement activities to Xth semester won't affect the whole process,rather it would provide an extra time for students to focus on their thesis and different electives and ably be prepared for placement activities in the last semester", prof. S. G. Deshmukh trails off.

On the other hand Dr. Santosh Rangnekar,Training and Placement coordinator of ABV-IIITM Gwalior says ,"we will keep continuing with the placement activities like arranging various seminars of eminent speakers, CEOs, ; conducting mock GDs/PIs; taking different personality development sessions."

"In this case we will try to contact non IT companies and will invite them for campus recruitment. we have different programs running here like two year MBA/M.Tech courses which demand multi-sectors ", shrugs Dr. Rangnekar.

Meanwhile the student community here in IIITM are a bit apprehensive about their future.They are in constant touch with their Alumni mentors. Some are taking audacious decision of taking various certification courses like CISA, CFA, FRM, PRM or writing GRE, GMAT, CAT in the penultimate semester.

Whatever might be the final implications, one thing is certain that too much hyped recession and Nasscom recent directives have disturbed the student community in their hibernation. Eventually it's providing much waited positive shift in the higher education in India.

IIITM-G over the Years: Industrial Links-II

Student Placements through Campus: Student placements In Industry and NGO’s for all the students—100% Achievements. Job placement in industry: 100%

An illustrative list of collaborating companies and recruiters is given below.

• A F Ferguson
• ABB, Baroda
• A C Neilson
• Andhra Bank
• Aegis Logistics, Mumbai
• Allindia.Com, Calcutta
• Ambujex
• Amdocs
  
• Aptech Asset International, Mumbai
• Aptech
• Bharti Telenet
• Bank of India
• Bharti Telesoft
• BSNL
• Ceat Financial Services, Mumbai
• Cadburys
• C-Dot
• CLC Technologies, New Delhi
• CMC
• Compaq India
• CSC India
• Coke
• Compaq
• Crimson Logic
• Cognizant Technologies
• Delphi
• Datamatics
• Dr. Reddys
• Ed.CIL
• E-Gurucool.Com
• Eicher
• Ernst & Young
• Evalueserve
• Financial Technologies, Mumbai
• Fiserv
  
• GE Motors India
• Gurukul Online
• Godrej
• HCL Info System
• HCL Technologies
• HDFC
• HECL
• Hero Corporate Services , Delhi
• Hindustan Office Products, Delhi
• HLL
• Honda Motorcycle
• HP
• Hughes Escorts
• ICICI Bank
• IBM Global Services
• ICICI Infotech Services
• Ideaspace Technologies
• Indiainfoline.Com
• ITC
• ITC Infotech
  
• Impetus
• Indian Bank
• Indian Oil
• Idea Cellular
• i-Flex
• IMI Mobiles
• Indian Overseas Bank
• Info Quark, Bangalore
• ISRO
• IDBI Bank
• ITC Infotech
• ITTIL, New Delhi
• J.K. Tyre
• Kodak
• Kribhco
• James Martin, New Delhi
• JCT Electronics , Delhi
• Krisn Information Technologies, Hyderabad
• L&T Infotech
• Larsen & Toubro
• LG Soft, Bangalore
• Logicsoft, Pune
• Lovely Professional University
  
• Mabledon Solution Ltd, Calcutta
• MAP-IT, Bhopal
• MBT, Mumbai
• MICO Bausch
• Moores Rowland Consultancy, Mumbai
• Munjal Showa, Delhi
• NALCO, Orissa
• NIC, New Delhi
• NICCO Infotech, Calcutta
• NIIT
• NTPC
• Nipuna Services
• NIC
• NTRO
• Nucleus SoftwareOracle
• Optel, Bhopal
• Oracle
• Patni Computer Systems
• Pramati
• Power Finance Corporation
• Persistant
• PMSI, Indore
• PriceWaterhouse Coopers,
• Pfizer
• Princeton Software, Mumbai
• Punj Llyod
• Ramco Systems, Chennai
• RPG Cellular, Indore
• SAIL
• Satyam Computers Services
• Satyam Renaissance, Delhi
• Shonkh Technologies International, Bangalore
• Silicon Graphics
• SRF, Gwalior
• STPI
• STPI, New Delhi
• STPI, Noida
• Suvi Software, Indore
• Tata Consultancy Services
• Tata Infotech
• Tata Telecom
• TECHNOPAK, Thiruvanthapuram
• TISCO
• Vedica Software, Calcutta
• Webel Technologies, Calcutta
• Whirlpool
• WIPRO Technologies
• WIPRO Consultancy
  

IIITM-G over the Years: Industrial Links-III

A collaborative list of NGOs is as follows:

• India Vision Foundation, New Delhi
• Navjyoti India Foundation, Delhi
• Action For Food Production (AFPRO),New Delhi and Gwalior
• Ajmer Adult Education Association
• All India Women’s Conference,
• CARE Rajashthan
• Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi
• Project 'Saukaryam', Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation
• Ramakrishna Ashrama, Gwalior
• Rural Communes, Pune
• Sai Consultancy Development Services, New Delhi
• Soc. for Water and Environmental Support, Kanpur
• Society for Rural Industrialisation, Ranchi
• Youth for Voluntary Action, Mumbai
• CERPA
• East & West Educational Society, Patna
• Ind. Inst of Alt Med. & Natural Healing, Mumbai

IIITM-G over the Years: Scholarships

Companies are increasingly recognizing the advantages arising out of collaboration with IIITM Gwalior. Some of the companies have come forward to offer scholarships to our students. In this connection the following needs mention:

• Infosys gives one scholarship of Rs. 1,90,000/- per annum for pursuing Ph.D. in E-Governance.
• Bharti Telnet has instituted scholarship of Rs. 20,000/- per annum for one student of each batch of the 5 year integrated PG programme. The scholarship continues for the entire duration of the course to cover tuition fees, lodging, boarding and other miscellaneous expenses.
• CSC India has instituted one scholarship each for first and final year MBA students of Rs. 2,000/- & Rs. 1,500/- per month respectively.
• Students from Andhra Pradesh joining this institute for the 5 year integrated PG course are eligible for Pratibha Scholarship of Rs.20,000/- per annum of the Govt. of AP.
• All M Tech students draw Govt. of India scholarship.

The institute also offer a scheme of fee waivers and scholarship for meritorious students