Infosys picks highest number of engineering talents in Thiruvananthapuram
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Indian IT major Infosys Technologies has offered the highest number of placements to students in major engineering colleges in the state capital during the recently concluded campus recruitment for 2012.
Infosys offered placement offers to 364 students in the campus recruitments organized by a consortium of colleges comprising of Sri Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, LBS Institute of Technology for Women and Government Engineering College, Barton Hill here.
Last year, Infosys conducted campus recruitment only at the College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET) and the number of placements offered then was 151.
This year, Infosys had to skip campus recruitments at CET as the college authorities opted for companies like Wipro, Cognizant and Accenture for conducting recruitments on the campus on the first day of campus recruitment, said A Samson, who heads the career guidance and placement cell of CET here. This was one of the major reasons for the company to scout for the cream of engineering talents in colleges in the three member consortium.
The Accenture could offer only 160 placement offers to students in the above mentioned four engineering colleges this time while it had given as many as 605 placement offers to students in member colleges of the consortium and CET together in 2011.
During the campus recruitment this year, the company that offered highest number of placements to CET students was Cognizant technologies with 202 placement offers. It did not visit colleges in the consortium this time. They had scouted for talents in these colleges last year and the number of placements they had given was 202.
Sources connected with the campus recruitment drive in engineering colleges in the state say only two or three self-financing engineering colleges in the district could attract companies to their campus. The number of placement offers bagged by students in these colleges was less than 100, they said.
Infosys picks highest number of engineering talents in Thiruvananthapuram - The Times of India