US IT giant picks up eight BDU students
As
many as eight students of Bharathidasan University and one from
Saranathan College of Engineering affiliated to the Anna University were
given offer letters from HexaCorp, a leading IT major in the US. That
all the nine candidates but one were from the Bharatidasan University
Technology Park (BUTP) were significant as the campus interview was
organized for the first time in the university involving a foreign
company directly.
All the nine selected candidates will be posted in the Chennai office of HexaCorp for an year of basic training. Thereafter, they would be absorbed in the HexaCorp branches worldwide depending upon requirement. Giving away the much-sought-after offer letters, S Subbiah, the administrative committee member of the University, said faculty must take care to involve most of the self-financing colleges also in the venture and get their students jobs after training them in the required fields. Though, most of the 360 postgraduate students who had passed out of the affiliated institutes of Anna University in the preceding year had attended the interview, only nine were selected.
The University registrar E Ramganesh said more initiatives like this must be taken to get a large number of the students employed, and a nine out of 360 was not something to cheer about.
Interestingly, the chief operating officer of HexaCorp, Jayaram Sadhasivam is an alumnus of Trichy's Bishop Heber College. He is a graduate of the 1995 MCA batch. Since the college was affiliated to BDU, he wanted to do something for the students of the University, said R Srivathsan, the HR manager of the company who was present to issue the job offers. The parents of the students were also present, and the event coming as it was a couple of days prior to the 30{+t}{+h} Convocation was considered significant.
The BUTP in association with the Centre for University-Industry Collaboration organised the campus interview.
All the nine selected candidates will be posted in the Chennai office of HexaCorp for an year of basic training. Thereafter, they would be absorbed in the HexaCorp branches worldwide depending upon requirement. Giving away the much-sought-after offer letters, S Subbiah, the administrative committee member of the University, said faculty must take care to involve most of the self-financing colleges also in the venture and get their students jobs after training them in the required fields. Though, most of the 360 postgraduate students who had passed out of the affiliated institutes of Anna University in the preceding year had attended the interview, only nine were selected.
The University registrar E Ramganesh said more initiatives like this must be taken to get a large number of the students employed, and a nine out of 360 was not something to cheer about.
Interestingly, the chief operating officer of HexaCorp, Jayaram Sadhasivam is an alumnus of Trichy's Bishop Heber College. He is a graduate of the 1995 MCA batch. Since the college was affiliated to BDU, he wanted to do something for the students of the University, said R Srivathsan, the HR manager of the company who was present to issue the job offers. The parents of the students were also present, and the event coming as it was a couple of days prior to the 30{+t}{+h} Convocation was considered significant.
The BUTP in association with the Centre for University-Industry Collaboration organised the campus interview.
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