Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Campus Recruitment


Campus Recruitment or Campus Placement has become a popular and commonly used method for selecting personnel in an organization. In Campus Recruitment, Companies / Corporate visit some of the most important Technical and Professional Institutes in an attempt to hire young intelligent and smart students at source. The most significant fact about Campus Recruitment is that instead of the job seekers approaching employers, the employers come to the most suitable prospective candidate with a job offer. It is common practice for Institutes today to hire a Placement Officer who coordinates with small, medium and large sized Companies and helps in streamlining the entire Campus Recruitment procedure. Campus Recruitment provides a platform for the organizations to meet the aspirants and pick up intelligent, committed youth who have the requisite enthusiasm and zeal to prove them. In order to find the right candidates, organizations employ various selection procedures. Campus recruitment has also spread from professional colleges (like engineering) to colleges offering general degrees like B.Com, B.Sc, MBA etc. Organizations seek to pickup the cream from different colleges. Hence, students from most good colleges now have a favorable chance to join a reputed organization without having to scrutinize diligently the 'wanted' columns. Now one also needs to understand why it is that corporate are beginning to lay a lot of emphasis on campus recruitment. It is easy for companies to reach a particular college and conduct recruitments there rather than reach out to a whole lot of individuals via newspapers etc. It therefore makes a lot of sense to be thoroughly prepared for the Campus Recruitment by the companies.  The following are the stages that students normally go through as a part of Campus Recruitment:
(i) Aptitude Test
 (ii) Group Discussion   
 (iii) Interviews