Chennai: To avoid delays in onboarding of students and the rescinding of job offers by companies, Anna University is planning to get an undertaking from recruiters that they will honour the job offers issued during placement drive.
Campus placement for an academic year generally starts around the end of July. Centre for University-Industry Collaboration is planning to invite more than 400 companies in 2025-26.”We are planning to take the undertaking as students are not allowed to sit for other placement interviews after accepting the job offer. If companies are not willing to recruit after giving offer letters, some students will miss out on joining top companies,” said K Shanmuga Sundaram, director, Centre for University-Industry Collaboration (CUIC), Anna University.
The university is taking this step as a precautionary measure as it plans to expand the number of recruiters from 230 companies this year to 400 companies next year by inviting new companies.
It also selected student ambassadors to pitch the strengths of the individual departments to recruiters.
“Student ambassadors have reached out to 40 new companies and are preparing presentations with the strength of their individual departments and skill sets students gained in the past six semesters,” he said.
So far, around 230 companies visited for campus placement and gave around 1,200 job offers to the students.
The placement season for 2024-25 is still on with some core companies continuing to hire students.
To increase the number of students bagging placement offers during 2025-26, the university is planning an eight-day placement training for 1,400 students on its four campuses.
“We are planning to give placement training to all seventh-semester students from July 2 to 8. It will include soft skill training, communication training, preparing resumes, mock interviews, programming language, technical sessions, and group discussions,” Shanmuga Sundaram said.
The university is planning to train students from the first year onwards on foundational skills and emerging technology in the coming academic year to improve campus placement on its four campuses.