Special 30

While the topic of being ‘PLACED’ is already grooming everyone’s mind, our college D K T E is providing soft skills training sessions on aptitude, group discussions & other aspects of a campus drive. Apart from this, at departmental level, the Electronics & Telecommunication Department has started an all new experiment to collect young minds & shape them with most suitable workplace environment & facilities, upgrading them to ‘EMPLOYABLE’ from being ‘Just ELLIGIBLE’. The department aims at finding the best 30 minds from the crowd of 69 students by consulting all the concerned faculty feedbacks, considering over-all performance in these 2 years, skill sets they possess & finally their academic performance.

Here are 5 bullet point expected outcomes and benefits of this program, according to my perspective.

            ‘Employable’ is different from ‘Eligible’

Though many students meet basic company criteria & are eligible for placement, they lack in many other areas expected by the HRs, and thus, such programs will surely help in activating majority of the crowd towards orienting them professionally.

          Efficient time utilization

The final year is already a peak time for any engineer. Students are overloaded by their projects, maintaining sharper academic results, demonstrating various models, preparing for exams like GATE, GRE, etc. In this regard, department has decided to provide some relaxation in their attendance & other submissions to some extent.

Appreciable!!!

       Need of the hour

Looking towards the current placement scenario, it is the need of the hour to start some new experiments to make a serious rise in training and placement activities & increasing number of students setting their positions in MNCs or any other company in general.

         Choice specific program

In the class of 69 students, we aren’t herd of sheep, heading blindly behind each others. Many are interested in placement. But this doesn’t deny the fact that we have others, interested in competitive exams, further studies in M.S, M.Tech or young entrepreneurs & other professionals. There is no point in teaching an elephant to swim or a fish to survive on land. Thus, selecting the concerned students with their own needs of adaptability in a company is somewhere in its own a wiser step in moving towards Ideal Education System.

           Dost hi dost ke kaam aata h

A friend in need is a friend indeed..!!

Though, due to constraints, only 30 students will be selected in this program, this nowhere means remaining students will be completely deprived of these facilities. The 30 students, if undertake only a single friend of their own, to share their experience & learning, will in turn teach 30 fresh students, benefiting the former with revision and the latter with learning material. Also it will help the department in saving their time and energy & thus, all in all, has interconnected benefits for all, if seen as an opportunity.

According to me, this should be seen as a helping hand for all the students and try to get best out of it.

The above discussion is a joint contribution of all the students from Third Year Electronics & Telecommunication Department, during the group discussion on 14^th of March,2015. Contribution of our trainer Mr.Prassana Joshi sir is great in orienting the discussion properly.

Critics and other contributions are most welcomed..!!