what is the placement process followed at NITIE?
The placement process at NITIE proceeds in broadly three stages. In the first stage, the Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) start coming in by July, after the students return from their summer training. In the second stage, we send out invites to potential companies and the students begin their groundwork of meeting HR heads and giving them brochures. The final stage is the placements itself, which takes place near 6-7 January. Earlier we used to follow the one-day spot offer system. But many companies had to go back empty handed in such a process so we replaced it with the multiple offer system, which resulted in 1.7 offers per student on an average in 2005. We top up the process in between these stages with several high profile corporate visits especially during our Prerna and Lakshya events. Some of the names that have visited the campus or are slated to visit are KV Kamath of ICICI Bank, Subir Raha of ONGC, Captain Gopinath of Air Deccan and Mr Ramachandran from Philips. When corporates c
