Hello
Here i will be giving a brief detail of
various off campus job opportunities available to freshers. I
will not be posting jobs but will tell you where to look for jobs. Usually
freshers go for the following options. I will be discussing each one of them.
1. Applying at company's career portal
I know many who have applied through company career
portal. I had applied too. As far as I know it helped none. No one got a
interview call when they applied on the companies career portal. That makes
sense. There are thousands of fresher engineers and when a company has a
vacancy, it will atleast get 10k applications. It will be difficult to go
through each and every resume. If u have applied on company’s portal through a
referral you have chances of getting calls for an interview or atleast a reply
that your profile doesn’t match the job profile. If u have experience only then the company
career portal is good way to apply for a job.
2. Job sites
There
are various job sites which post off-campus openings for freshers. Most of them are genuine. You will have a
tough competition when you go for such off campus job openings. Usually there
will be atleast 7000 job applications for mere 20-30 vacancies. I have come
across one of the core company which had 8000+ fresh graduates for first round
and finally they recruited only 9 of them!! But you have chances of getting
through. Some of the useful jobsites are
There are many
more. But I found these more useful.
3. Employability tests
Personally I
prefer this for applying for off campus jobs. If u think you are good at
aptitude tests, this is the best way to find a job off campus. The main
advantage is the initial filtering is done so there is less competition.
Instead of 10000 graduates competing for 20-30 vacancies, for example you will have 100 competing for
10 vacancies. Again there are many employability tests like elimus, AMCAT,
JobMentor etc. There are advantages and disadvantages in each of them. If u
think you are better than many in aptitude tests and as I mentioned in my
previous post, if u want a great package, go for elitmus. They provide really
good companies with packages ranging between 3lakhs to 10+ lakhs per annum. I
am not trying to advertising elitmus , I will gain nothing from that . I have
got many interview calls from them after I gave my employability test. I got
atleast 5 calls in 2 months. I got selected in 2 of them. And job profiles and
packages were better than campus offers. The elitmus test called PH test is of
course difficult, It is of CAT standards. If they have to choose good
candidates it has to be tough. The test fee is around 750 and I think the services
offered by them are worth it. The AMCAT is considered to be easier than elitmus
and I don’t have clear details of it as I have not taken it.
4. Consultancies
After
trying many methods, fresh engineers often end up with this. There are good
consultancies as well as fraud consultancies. Most of them are not genuine
consultancies. But there are some genuine consultancies. As far as I know, the
ones which don’t charge you money are genuine. Yes, they will be paid by the
company for each suitable candidate they provide. Presently I don’t have the
list of genuine consultancies. I will post them as soon as I get them.
Feel free to express your opinion, suggestions,
questions etc..
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