Over 700 students have been shortlisted, with the highest package of Rs 6 lakh offered by Trident Group and average package of Rs 1.5 lakh, in job fair organised by Haryana State Board of Technical Education (HSBTE).
The fair was organised in collaboraton with Confederation of Indian Industry for polytechnic students (2017 passouts) of ten districts of the State — Hisar, Sirsa, Rohtak, Jind, Bhiwani, Fatehabad, Mahendragarh, Sonepat, Panipat and Jhajjar, at Government Polytechnic,Hisar recently.
A spokesman of the Board said that 1,200 students from different streams such as mechanical engineering, automobile engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, plastic technology, finance accounting and auditing, instrumentation and control, library and information science, office management and computer applications, and medical lab technology from all government, Government-aided aided polytechnics in the state and 61 private polytechnics from the ten districts participated in this job fair.
Around 30 companies took written tests and interviews during the job fair. The spokesman said that job placement drive was also organised at Government Polytechnic, Sampla, Government Polytechnic, Bhiwani and CRP Rohtak, wherein final year students from various polytechnics participated and many got selected.
After the success, the Board would organise such zonal placement drives at regular intervals with the goal of providing placement to eligible students and encouraging interaction between industry and students.
Besides, taking feedback from the industry, the Board would soon introduce
National Skill Qualification Framework-aligned curriculum and also impart soft skill training to all its students to enable them to build their careers in technical fields.