Number of companies coming for campus recruitment has gone up to 56. All recession-related worries at the IRMA, about placements this year have disappeared.
All recession-related worries at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), about placements this year have disappeared. Contrary to the trend at other premier institutes, a large number of organisations are expected to turn up for the placements at IRMA that begin on Sunday.
It seems IRMA students would be spoiled for choice of jobs this year. The number of organisations visiting the rural management school for campus placements has gone up to 56 this year. The 100 students of the postgraduate programme in rural management (PRM), 2007-09, have received some 200 job offers.
Much of the credit for this goes to the institute's policy of inviting to the placements designated organisations that serve at the grassroots level.
"Nearly 50% of our students have received pre-placement offers this time," said a senior IRMA official. "We are not struggling to find jobs for our students because IRMA still follows its founder-chairman Dr Verghese Kurien's policy of inviting designated organisations that serve at the grassroots." Seniors at IRMA said the number of pre-placements offers this time have gone up dramatically. "We are, however, slightly uncertain about the pay packages that will be offered to our students in these times of recession," said another IRMA official. "But we will know about it when the organisations announce their offers to our students."
IRMA's parent organisations - the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) and National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) - have together offered to recruit around 40 out of the 100 PRM students. The first-timers among the 56 reputed organisations that are expected at the placements include Karamsad Hospital and the Swiss Development Cooperation, among others.
The central government's panchayati raj department and the Gujarat state watershed management agency are among the other major organisations that would be recruiting at the placements this year.
There used to be much dispute at IRMA over which organisations to invite to the campus placements. Things had come to such a pass that the NDDB, headed by Dr Amrita Patel, a Kurien protégé who had fallen out with her mentor, had stopped coming for the placements. It was only last year that the NDDB started coming for campus recruitments at IRMA.
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