Student Empowerment is a key feature of life at GDGU and is an integral part of the University, for all its Constituent Bodies seeks to identify the best student/best industry for both. Placement Team along with Student Placement Coordinators & Faculty Placement Coordinators work towards the same goal.

Student Empowerment is a key feature of life at GDGU and is an integral part of the University, for all its Constituent Bodies seeks to identify the best student/best industry for both. Placement Team along with Student Placement Coordinators & Faculty Placement Coordinators work towards the same goal.

Some of the focused activities are

• The Placement Team identifies the potential recruiters, interacts with selected companies and coordinates the visit of such corporate executives to the campus, virtual interviews, pool campus drives at different locations.
• Career counselling by CRC &faculty mentor in different functional areas.
• A structured Employability Skills Development Programme, wherein variousskills sets are exposed by trainers
• Students are encouraged to participate in PDP/ Employability Skill development department, regular practice on Maths/Quant, Reasoning &English language, Exposure on different industries & their expectations.
• Guiding for effective resumes and application.
• Mentoring by the alumni, in terms of sharing experiences vis-à-vis realities of corporate life, refining expectations and projecting future trends
• An effective way of creating awareness about companies among students is to provide information. The information could be in the form of JD from company, brochures, pamphlets and other published information.
• At GDGU, various events, guest speaker panels, conferences, workshops and academic fairs are organized in which companies participate directly or contribute through partnerships
• Projects are an integral part of the academic curriculum at GDGU. Both summer and live projects with organizations provide students with basic understanding of the company’s operations; this ultimately enhances the adaptability of students at large

Placement Process:

Recruitment Registration

All recruiters participating in the Final interviews are required to register with the CRC Department. Students need to adhere current placement policy, this may change in favor of students and university based on industry requirements and market scenario for jobs.

Pre-Placement Presentation/Talks

• Organizations interested in conducting Pre Placement Talks are requested to coordinate with the Placement Cell and fix dates for conducting the same.
• The Pre Placement Talks may to be conducted any time prior to the beginning of the Pre Interview Screening.
• Members from companies interact with students on campus through Business Thought Leadership Sessions, Guest Lectures, Live Projects, and other Corporate Forums
• The companies conduct Pre-Placements Talks to give in-depth information about them including the roles and profiles being offered.

Pre-Interview Screening & final Selections

Recruiter may conduct the Pre-interview screening if they wish to. The applicants selected in the Pre Interview Screening shall qualify for appearing in the Pre or Final interviews as per recruiter’s norms.

• Student profiles and other relevant details are shared with companies
• Applications are invited and resumes of interested applicants are shared with the companies.
• Based on factors such as profiles and locations offered, and student’s perceptions and areas of interest, companies are ranked and called on campus
• Companies conduct their selection process which typically comprises CV based short listing, group discussions, tests and interviews
• After final round of test and interviews results are announced by the companies.

Unique Summer Internship Program and Mentor-ship:

As a compulsory part of curriculum, UG and PG students are required to undergo Summer Internship with an organization for a period of 8-12 weeks. The selection process for Summer Placements starts after the first term for the first year students. The period of Summer Internship is normally from the beginning of April to the mid of June. Apart from the summer internship by the students enrolled for all courses at GDGU, students are also encouraged to have Mentor-ship program. Several companies tend to absorb the interns as full-time recruits post the completion of the students’ academic curriculum as they understand their potential. Alumni are involved aggressively now for SIP and Mentor-ship.

SIP offers unique advantages to Students, Faculty and Industry

• Students understand, learn, see practical approach and develop themselves by contribution to industry in our SIP.
• Faculty understands the need of industry during their interaction and groom students accordingly with recommendation for necessary changes in teaching methodology.
• Industry get charged, fresh mind, career oriented young trainee and future employee for new changes, innovations and contribution during SIP.

Facilities to Recruiters:

GDGU University and its Institutes have state of art infrastructure facilities to facilitate Recruitment activities in a very professional, serene and environment friendly campus:

• Auditorium with capacity of above 250 students.
• Dedicated access to Computer Labs for conducting online tests and air-conditioned Classrooms for offline tests
• Conference  and Interview rooms
• Video Conferencing/ Skype facilities
• Guest House for Corporate Visitors
• Internet/Wi-Fi access

What students look for during placements & expected from them?

• Information on companies profile, its performance and growth
• Organizational culture
• Possible future opportunities with company
• Career opportunities
• An overview of the job profile
• Your desired profile of the students
• Compensation Details

We have got a proactive placement team, which enjoys a strong professional network across diverse sectors. Actively coordinate with students to ensure that they get placed with reputed MNCs before six months of graduation /post-graduation. The training and placement officer along with the placement team, Student Placement Coordinators, Faculty Placement Coordinators take care of pre-placement, employability, enhancement and competently development initiatives in the university.

GD Goenka University being one of the best universities also organises various personality development programme dealing with PI Skills, Group Discussion skills in order to groom the students personality for their bright and fruitful future so that they grow and adapt according to the situation of industries which is the need of the hour.

GD Goenka University deals with hospitality for the companies in a very efficient and fruitful manner both benefit the institute as well as the company/organisation so as to create a better impact. Students of our university irrespective of their discipline, volunteer and coordinate. GD Goenka University has witnessed the placement drive in which more than 100 companies participate to recruit the students in different sectors so as to raise the employability ratio and also reduce the poverty rate when viewed from a global perspective. Students are expected to adhere to placement policy and prepare themselves for competing in the various Test/ GD/PI conducted by different organizations. Based on requirements & eligibility criteria of organizations, drives are floated for various streams and students are expected to meet requirements set by individual organizations for final selections.

Industry Institute Interaction

All the reputed organizations including MNCs come to the University for Campus Recruitment. To achieve its goal, the Training & Placement Cell works towards recognizing the core competencies of students. It works through a close knot organization and has a structure which conveys information to the students at the fastest possible rate. The Training & Placement Cell firmly believes in ‘Industry-Institute Interaction’. In order to accomplish ‘Industry-Institute Interaction’, it organizes technical talks and national seminars to provide a platform for the budding engineers to interact with professionals from various industries. It encourages visits to the industries by the university students. It also takes suggestions from members of industry regarding designing/changing of curriculum.

CRC Training & Placements Objective

The Corporate Resource Center at GD Goenka University has a basic objective of facilitating Placements and Training for all students. CRC team encourages students to conduct and manage placement related events that strengthen their understanding and relationship with the corporate world.

To ensure that students reap the results of their hard work, GDGU has a full-fledged effective and proactive CRC team for Placements & Training through respective schools. It is committed to provide all the possible assistance in getting the students suitably placed. Acting as an interface between the industry and the students. Our goal is to enhance student’s employability and for 100% placement assistance for interested students participating for recruitment process. The CRC takes care of pre-placement activities, briefing sessions for various drives and about job description of opportunities.

The CRC department prepares the final year student’s data bank to plan and hone student’s skills to increase their job prospects. It also organizes mock interviews and GD’s to train students for the real placement process. CRC assists in arranging pre-placement talks, written tests, group discussions, personal interviews, etc. on a regular basis for the organization participating at GDGU. The CRC Cell firmly believes in meaningful ‘Industry-Institute Interaction’. It has a system which conveys information to the students at the fastest possible rate through Mail.

The student are placed nationally as well as globally. Some of the key organization which have conducted their recruitment drives in the recent past are PWC, Gartner, Kasai Nerolac, Tech Mahindra, Bosch, Hershey, Godrej, Jindal Group, E&Y, DHL, Ameriprise, Merkle Sokrati, Deloitte, TCS, Tata 1mg, Sun Pharma, Medanta, Metropolis, NTT Data, NIIT, WNS Global Wipro, HDFC, Aditya Birla, Dalmia Cement, Prism Johnson, Square Yards, FIS Global, Axis Bank, Karur Vysya, City Union, Kotak, PPAP, Modi Mundi, Bharti Airtel, PUMA, PNB, Capegemini, Naukri.com, Evalueserve, Asahi Glass, Nagaro, ICICI, Byjus, FCB, Bajaj Capital, Trilegal, Protivity, Cvent, Kal Freight, Rivigo (Mahindra) Decathlon, Puma and many more.

Placement Policy

The recruitment policy outlined is intended to provide assistance to every student an equal opportunity for getting the best job offers.

• Our University follows “One student one job” policy. No student, who has got one placement offer through Campus Placement Drive, is permitted to appear in subsequent placement interviews, unless the package offered by the new company is at least 1.5 times the Package/Category change for which he was selected. The decision on the matter of establishing the eligibility of student shall be taken by CRC, which shall be final & binding on all the students.
• Any Student Placed in Category - A or D will not be considered for additional opportunity and for him / her the cycle will be complete. However, students placed in Category-B, will be allowed for one additional opportunity at a higher salary level in Category- A or D and once he / she secures a Job in Category – A or D will be considered to complete the cycle and will not be considered for further opportunities.
• It is mandatory to have offer in Category - A or B Company to become eligible for appearing in Category- D Company.
• A student can have maximum three offer, one from Category-A or D and one from Category-B based on jobs opportunities available during the period.
• Student’s needs to register for all drives conducted by CRC for which he is eligible as per company requirements and complete the placement process. If student registers for the drive and don’t appear for further selection process of companies for more than 3 companies he will be treated under “Non Placement Seeker” category and will be debarred from future placement drives
• When receiving 2 or more opportunities from organizations that have parallel recruitment process (i.e.) [2 or more organizations on a single day for campus recruitment], the student will make a decision on attempting 1 of them. This decision is final and binding on the student to maintain professional ethics.
• For providing placement assistance to students CRC will be asking various data’s and formats to be completed by students. He must regularly check his mails and comply immediately as desired for the same. If he fails to do the same than he will lose the opportunity.
• Students registered for the drive must appear in all the placements steps for the drives & complete the selection process of company, attendance will be marked accordingly. Sometimes in case of direct information to students by company for any placement step he must inform the same to the manager concerned for that opportunity.
• Participation in core placement drives is mandatory for all placement seeking students with same specialization or domain, e.g. Finance students must appear for all job profiles floated for Finance profiles. Attendance will be marked for the day accordingly. Not appearing for core job profiles will be treated as student “Not Seeking Placement”.
• CRC will be floating pool drives & off-campus drives for various opportunities and organizations will be inviting students at their locations for various steps of selection process hence students’ needs to make his own arrangements for attending the same and completing the process. University will have no role & responsibility for the same.
• Working on a full-time basis during the final semester of the program may be allowed only under exceptional cases and requires the approval of the Dean or higher authority.
• The Dean/CRC or his/her designee on his/her sole discretion can allow exceptions to the policy requirements for students.
• Pre Placement Offer (PPO) along-with Training/Project/Probation is equivalent to a job offer and hence the same policy shall be applicable.
• All the placement opportunities will be floated through CRC only for proper records of all the placement drives.
• If a student’s gets a placement offer on his own or through a reference he should immediately inform CRC with a copy of offer for records/NOC or any purpose within a weeks’ time.
• Student who is debarred or falls in the Non Placement Seeking Category can appear in future drives only after recommendation of Dean with justified reasons to CRC and approval from Competent Authority by CRC.
• Students must prepare for each interview process, read JD, about organization and prepare CV as per job profile and organization requirements which makes him best to be suited.
• If students appears for campus/off-campus/virtual drive during university hours he can claim attendance on the format designed by CRC. He must submit his request of attendance on the format within a weeks’ time of the drive /process attended. The same needs to be submitted at respective school.
• Any exception to the policy requires approval of Honorable Vice Chancellor.

Placement Eligibility and Dress Code

Minimum 50% marks or 5.5 CGPA at GDGU.

Attendance must be 75% as per the time table.

Attendance must be 75% in the sessions conducted by CRC for personality development/GD/ PI preparation.

No current backlogs while registering for placement drive.

Meeting eligibility clause of different organization based on their need for respective drive.

Dress code for Male Students

• Suit or Blazer and complimentary trousers
• Collared Shirt with a matching tie
• Clean Shoes with appropriately matching socks
• Hair must be kept clean and tidy
• NO jeans/ T-shirts/ casuals
• Preferably Clean shave else Beard trimmed neatly

Dress code for Female Students

• Business suit or collared blouse with matching trousers(Indian/Western)
• Salwar Suit/ Saree
• Clean formal shoes or sandals.
• Hair must be kept clean and tidy.
• NO jeans/ T-shirts/ casuals