Types of campus placement
There are two types of campus placement. They are on-campus and off-campus
On-campus placement
This is the placement program organized only for the students within the educational institute. In most cases student in the final year of a program will participate in this placement programOff campus placement
This job placement program is for students from other institutions. This program will be conducted in a common place (it may be in a college or in some public place) where students from different colleges will take part.Project Placement
Companies recruit students to do their academic project in the industrial environment.Student Internship Placement
Companies recruit the students as interns. Internship will be during their student period.Objective
The major objective of campus placement is to identify the talented and qualified professionals before they complete their education. This process reduces the time for an industry to pick the candidates according to their need.Procedure
Pre-Placement Talk
A presentation about the company will be made during the pre-placement talk. Basically the presentation includes the information like selection procedure, company’s milestones, organizational achievements, candidate scope of improvement within the organization if selected, salary, employment benefits. Usually this presentation will end up with question and answer session, students given chance to ask questions about company.Educational qualification
Companies who interested in campus visit for recruitment purpose will have specific qualification criteria. Qualification criteria include marks or grade range, specific programme.Written Test
Qualified students will undergo a test. This is usually a simple aptitude test but depending on company the difficulty level of the test may be at the higher side.Group discussion
Most of the companies will have this round as a filtering round. This round may or may not be conducted.A common topic is placed before the group and a formal discussion or knowledge sharing is expected by the judge. Purpose of this round is to check communication skills, etiquette of person, listening ability, convincing power, group leadership, leader or follower and many more thing are evaluated on the basis of requirement or the particular intention of organisation or company.
Technical Interview
Based on outcome of above said process, students will further undergo a round called technical round. This round evaluates the technical ability of the student. In most of the cases this will be an individual round but it may be grouped with the formal interview.Formal interview
Final round of the selection process, where the student’s stability and his confidence level towards the particular work will be evaluated.Post-Placement Talk
Once the student is selected, he will be given an offer letter. Company’s executive may provide guidelines about joining procedure and other prerequisites if needed..
