The Placement Blog, brought to you by The Scholars’ Avenue and the Placement Committee of IIT Kharagpur, is an internal site maintaining a repository of interviews from several successful candidates of past placement seasons. Check out http://placements.scholarsavenue.org (viewable only within the institute) for tips, pointers and advice that’s sure to get you geared for Placements ’09.

Also, take a look at our past archives for a better perspective into cracking the placement season: 2007 and 2008.

In the light of the upcoming placement season, we caught up with the Gymkhana Vice President, Shubham Matah to see how far he has taken his proposal to improve campus placements.

One of the ost promising measures that he had set out to accomplish was the mock GD/PI sessions for all the students who registered for placements, which was supposed to have happened in mid-October according to his estimation during our last interview. Unfortunately, he informs us that this will not be happening this time around due to insufficient funds. The amount allocated to this project by the Registrar was a mere 1/4th of what was needed. In place of what would have been an extremely beneficial one-on-one session with professionals, final year students will have to do with just a seminar that is slated to happen sometime during November. Also meeting with delays was the plan to have student profile pages hosted on the IIT-KGP site. This project has been taken up by the Dean of Co-ordination and Planning and is likely to be completed this time next year. On a happier note, one of the measures that was taken by the VP in relation to placements did bear fruit, namely the appointment of department representatives. According to him, it has been “100% effective” in getting new companies for placements.

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Teach For India seeks the most outstanding students for 2010 Fellowship

Are you interested in leadership at the highest levels?  Do you have a track record of academic achievement?  Do you care about making a better India for all citizens?

Teach For India, the nationwide movement to end educational inequity, is seeking the world’s most outstanding final-year students for its selective 2010 Fellowship. (more…)

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iLine, a Jamshedpur based coaching institute offers senior faculty positions for Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics. It is a coaching institute started by IIT KGP Alumni.

The details are as follows:

*CTC- Rs 4.8 Lacs(Min) to Rs 15Lacs(Max)
*Interested candidates should mail their CVs at iline.edu@gmail.com by 11/04/2009
*Candidates will have to sit for a written test  followed by a 30min class presentation on any topic of their choice.
*Test date and time : 11AM, Sunday (12/04/2009)
Venue: iLine, 67 First Floor, Birenu Trade Centre, Penar Road (Ambagan), Sakchi, Jamshedpur

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Resonance is coming for campus placements tomorrow. Its offering a CTC of Rs 6 lakhs. All those who are interested and have submitted CVs in advance are informed that selection procedures start tomorrow at 6 am at Hotel Garden Inn. Those who havent submitted CVs and are interested in sitting for placements here are requested to contact the person below and turn up tomorrow with a copy of their CV.

Contact : Prateek Khandelwal +919829362660

Candidates are expected to have passion of teaching. The candidate should be inclined towards improvement by practice. They have the requirement of candidates in each of the faculty (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics).

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