HYDERABAD: The time of the year around April-May till about July-August is a very crucial and nerve wrecking period for freshly graduated students as it’s placement time. Companies flock to colleges to pick up the best they can lay their hands on during a highly competitive and extremely short time span. While these placements are very systematic and carefully handled, there are still a good number of students who don’t get picked up. A job fair is an extremely vital opening for students like these. The two-day job fair being conducted by FAPCCI is a best place that will help those who are looking for meaningful and challenging jobs and the employers who are searching capable, competitive and well qualified employees. FAPCCI president, V S Raju, said a good job is on everybody’s list of priorities, “We have created an opportunity. It was an idea we felt that would benefit everyone. Most companies that are hiring are members of FAPCCI,” and added that FAPCCI will act as a facilitator between the prospective employees and employers. “We have also invited small and medium scale enterprises to provide freshers more options,” added Raju. The job fair requires applicants to pay a registration fee of `200 while companies that have set up booths have sponsored some part of the fair. “We didn’t charge companies specifically as most of them are members and some of them are regular patrons,” said the FAPCCI president. Over 3,000 participants have registered so far and number of vacancies are close to 500. Candidates from various streams including B.Tech, M.Tech and graduate diplomas are set to participate. “These two days will basically see these applicants, mostly locals, going through a series of interviews that will hopefully land them a job,” said Rajeshwara Rao, secretary general, FAPCCI .Speaking of the response to the job fair in the first two hours, Raghu Babu of Pitti Laminations Ltd said, “So far we have interviewed about 10 candidates. It is too early for us to gauge how it’s going to be. But out of the 10 that we interviewed, there were candidates that could not even write their CV properly or communicate. But there were also people who seemed capable.” With campus placements having just happened a couple of months ago, how much of the in-take volume gets cut down on, considering the same companies have gone to colleges? “It depends on the company and its requirements. We are expanding our company. So, we will actually go back to colleges again in a few months time,” said K T Naidu, assistant general manager of Coromandel Paints Ltd. “There is always a demand for employees. Which is why the concept of the fair came up. We are in fact planning on making this a quarterly or half-yearly event,” FAPCCI president added. “This being the first time, we will see how things work out. We are facilitating an opportunity for both employers and employees. Even after the fair is over, our association will still continue,” said Rajeshwara Rao and added, “Bringing industries face-to-face with job aspirants is a good substitute for placement drives. We have rich manpower and tapping into it will lead to development of industries in the state.” The New Indian Express is the media partner for the fair which was inaugurated by general manager of Oriental Bank of Commerce, R K Takkar.
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