UniversityHiring Launched

We have recently launched the UniversityHiring website. Let me take a few minutes of yours to tell you about what we do at UniversityHiring. Our aim in starting this service is to help build a better eco-system for campus placements in the country. India a producing more and more engineers and managers each year. As this article mentions, the number of engineering colleges is increasing at the rate of 20% per year, and the management schools at 60% per year. These numbers tell us that we have a growing talent pool in our country. But are the recruiters able to visit all these colleges for placement activities?

Of the 4.5 Lakh engineers that graduate every year, how many of them secure a job through their campus placements? I don't have an exact figure, but I am pretty sure it would be lot less. So what happens to the rest of the engineers? There are many companies that do not want 'only IITians' or only IIM grads. Think of any 'Yet Another Services Company'. Do they need the best brains? No. All they need are people who have basic level of understanding. Yes, its true that IITs and IIMs, just by the virtue of their name and a well renowned pool of talent, attract a lot more companies than any other institute in the country. However, inspite of that, there are recruiters (a very large number of them) that are interested in having students from the lower tier colleges too. But, there are so many low tier colleges, how are they able to access all of them??

This is where we come in. We aim to build a platform for the educational institutes and the recruiters to come together, and conduct their placement activities in a very smooth manner. Our first step towards achieving this goal is our Online Campus Recruitment Portal. We have named it as ERGO (its a Greek name for 'Job'). ERGO provides the placement offices of the educational institutes to manage their campus placements in a better manner, and also makes their life simpler by removing a lot of manual book-keeping work required during the process. You can know more about the product by visiting our website.

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If you have any queries regarding our software, or if you wish to register your institute with UniversityHiring then please mail us at sales[AT]universityhiring.com
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ERGO was recently introduced in our alma-mater, IIT Kanpur. We are helping the student placement office to carry out their processes in an automated manner. If you are a student of IITK and using ERGO, then please do let us know what is your feedback about it. We would love to hear from you! If you want to have any useful features introduced in ERGO, then please leave a comment here or send us a feedback.

If you are a final year student and are preparing for your campus job interviews, then please visit our discussion forums, where you can discuss with your seniors about general interview tips, and the commonly asked questions and puzzles. We have also started a few career counseling services through our forums. You can participate there and get any of your queries answered. One of these is the Resume Mentorship Programme. You can login into the forum to know more about it.