Sathyabama University Management Recruitment Norms

Sathyabama University Management Recruitment Norms

Chennai: In an effort to provide jobs to engineering graduates who fail to bag offers during campus placements due to the rigid academic criteria set by corporates, the Sathyabama University management here has decided to establish a Rs.100 crore Information Technology company near Chennai. The proposed company’s HR policy would seek to redefine the prevailing recruitment standards, as per which only candidates with a consistently good academic record from Standard X on wards were offered placements.

The foundation stone for the company, Jeppiaar Technologies, would be laid on February 20 and in a year’s time it would recruit 2, 000 engineering graduates based solely on the marks scored by them in the BE / B.Tech course and the performance in interviews.

Announcing this at a function organized to hand over offer letters to 1, 017 final year students of the university on Saturday, its Chancellor Jeppiaar said, “we will offer a starting annual compensation package of Rs.3 lakh to the selected candidates.”

Explaining the rational behind the move, Jeppiaar said at present the HR managers of multinational companies and Information Technology majors failed to judge students based on their performance in the engineering examinations. This despite the fact that prospective employees learn much of their domain specializing in an engineering field.

“The corporates insists that students must have scored above 60 or 70 percent in standards X, XII and college examinations. They fail to realize that in educational institutions students are admitted on the basis of the communal reservation policy. Each of them comes from varied socio-economic background. A student from a rural school would have secured a mere pass in the board examinations and later performed well in a college, where the teachers offered them a level-playing ground. However, companies reject candidates who score good marks in the university examination on the ground that they not fared well in schools,” Jeppiaar said.

“At least 400 out of every 1, 000 job aspirants are rejected on this basis, which is not fair. Unfortunately, no political leader is talking about this. Corporates must look at the end product and not the input levels,” he argued.

While urging corporates to change their HR policies, he said in this proposed company everyone would be judged on their performance in college examination and interviews. “The company will actually be an expanded facility of our existing Jeppiaar Technology Park where we have rejected by other companies,” he added

Justifying the dress code for students in the university, Jeppiaar said, he insisted on the on the students dressing up nearly in formals since that shaped their personality.

“In all companies, HR candidates on the basis of their personality as well. We prepare our students for year onwards,” he said.

Later, he distributed offer letters from leading companies, including Wipro, Cognizant, Infosys and Satyam, to final year students, who were recruited on the campus.

Sathyabama University Management Recruitment Norms

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