Job offers on the rise? Placements at IIT Madras see a 30% uptick
Job
offers
for students of Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras (IITM) during the first phase of placements for 2018-19
has gone up by nearly 30 per cent compared to last year, the institute said.
The number includes pre-placement offers (PPO) as well.
IITM
said the first in three days of placements (1-3 December 2018) 133 companies
arrived at the campus and extended 680 offers to the students.
“When
combined with 136 PPOs, the total number of offers stands at 816 at the end of
Day Three," said IIT
Madras authorities.
According
to IITM, 13 international job offers have also been extended. As many as 20
startups have made 78 offers at the end of Day 3.
During
the academic year 2017-18, 106 companies made 526 offers (643 including PPOs)
at the end of third day of phase I of campus placements.
Prof
Manu Santhanam, Advisor (Placements), IITM said, “We had a great start to this
year’s placements. We hope the strong trend continues over the next four days
as well.” Read
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