The HCET has got a full fledged training and placement cell functioning from the very inception of the college headed by training and placement officer under the guidance of principal & vice-principal of the Institute. The cell is proactively involved in the placement of the final year students and vocational training of the second and pre final year students, apart from organizing various programs including personality development program, technical seminars and discussion with field experts for the betterment of the knowledge of the students. Training and placement cell continuously interact with the corporate world to get the feed back required to improve the teaching methodology for establishing more productive links with the students. The aim of the cell is to ensure the overall development of the students and to enhance the self reliance in the students.

The placement cell at HCET provides comprehensive Job Listings, Career Counselling & Industrial Trends. The mission is to create an atmosphere of self-directed leadership, self-motivated team-work and self-generated creativity. After opening up of the global economy, there has been a manifold increase in job opportunities for trained human resources. With the entrance of multinational companies (MNCs) in the country, the requirement of technically qualified people in the field of computer, Information Technology, Electronics etc. has assumed new proportions and dimensions while the traditional engineering branches like Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering are still relevant and job position in these fields never fades.

The mission of the training and placement cell of HCET is to develop the students into future leaders who are technically sound, and turn into positive human being with a vision in life. The overall emphasis is laid on ...

• Understand the basic needs of a particular company and preparing students accordingly.

• Differentiate between IT sectors and core companies and yearly need.

• Designing various training methods as per students caliber and preparing them accordingly thereby making them competent to find placements in various companies.

• Develop an understanding of the criterias of companies and their needs from any technical institution in developing students as per industrial projects and changing market scenario.

• To develop the students skill in facing interviews.

• To develop the overall personality.

• To expose them to all the experts in various engineering fields.

• To keep them abreast of all the latest happenings in the field of latest technology.

• To provide necessary infrastructure and platform to the students to improve their personality knowledge.

•Incessantly exploring the possibilities of creative potential of every student through the unified field based integrated training for maximizing placement by campus selection.

•Time, for the career to seek new heights.

• To provide expert exposure to candidates in various engineering fields.

• To keep the candidates abreast with the latest in the art of technology.

• To provide necessary literature / magazines / books / video tapes, CDs etc

Training and placement cell acts as interface between the prospective employers and students. TPC also acts as the students counseling cell where their academic and career related activity are sorted out. TPC works actively to the feedback from visiting company executives. Prospective companies are also called for conducting Campus Recruitment. Following facilities are provided by TPC ...

• Facility for PPTs (Pre Placement Talks).

• Class rooms for conducting written test group discussions/personal interviews.

• Resume data bank for final year students.

• Overall Projector/LDC projector/DLP projector to represent seminars.

• Transportation facilities.

Selection Criteria of the companies who visit for Campus recruitment has different criterion and they see different traits prospective employee.

Eligibility Criteria Most of the reputed Companies have eligibility criteria of 60% without any present or active backlog i.e. a candidate should have 60% marks in 10th,12th and aggregate at the time of placement should be 60%. As such , it should be our endeavour to admit such students who are already having 60% marks in 10th 12th.

Selection Procedure TCS has developed their own software for the Online Test. This procedure is quick and free from any hazard and the results are immediately known to the candidates at the end of the Test. Such Tests consist of critical reasoning, logic ability, mathematics and English and some technical ability. Some Companies like Satyam, Infosys, Syntel etc. have their own Question Papers which comprises of the above constituents and the Test is of One hour duration. The Paper is divided into two or three parts and such methods of the Companies are their own. Students securing the cut off marks are declared to be pass in Written test. Some of the Companies like Infosys give more weightage to the English language and their Paper consist of large sections of exercises pertaining to English language.

Technical and HR Rounds After they clear the Written Test, Technical and HR Rounds are held. The Technical Rounds consist of Questions pertaining to each Branch which consist of Concepts and Fundamentals of the subject. HR round mainly consists of psychometric round and after these rounds, the final list of the selected candidate is prepared.

Recruitment Ideology Different companies believe in having different recruitment ideologies but most of the companies believe in hiring candidates who have an ability to learn. Their ideology of recruitment is to forecast and hire the right person for the right job in the lowest possible turnaround time. Forecasting help them to avoid pressure based hiring. They look at achieving outstanding results, minimize hiring mistakes and build a world class team of excellent people.

Philosophy of Selection The selection process is a mix of carefully selected tools. They test the knowledge bade of a candidate by letting them undergo test. They also evaluate the person for their technical or business skills through interviews and discussions with experts within the organization. Their recruitment team have elaborate discussions with candidates to understand their psychology attitude and zeal to be different from the ordinary individual. A candidate on an average undergoes through two rounds of technical rounds of Interviews and discussions apart from his discussions with HR team to understand the expectations of the candidate and explain the kind of mandate expected from him. Apart from the educational qualifications, the companies seek among the young and enthusiastic candidates, their technical professional qualifications as a must criterion and how they can think differently and willing to take risk and believe in action orientation.

Feedback From The Placement Team The Companies expect that the candidates should have Basic and Fundamental knowledge of their respective field and they should have a very clear idea as to what they know and what they do not know. If at all they know something how clearly they know it. Generally, they ask you to give an area of your interest. Students generally overlook at minute details and write what others write and copy them which has come to light while they are confronted with the same question during the interview. The candidate should be very honest in making any statement. The interviewers are very smart persons who can detect your abilities very easily. The basic questions which they ask are the following ...

• Knowledge of C and C++

• Dataform

• Micro Processors at Mobile technology

• Java

• Oracle

• Dot Net

We have already started the Oracle Training Certificate in our college.

Communication Skill During the Group Discussion, ability of Communication skill is widely exposed to the Interviewers. Group Discussion consists of subject knowledge , spoken English, and the body language. In al the recruiters look for their performance strategic vision, ability to communicate, problem solving skills, responsiveness and so on. Since the software marketers are very dynamic, every company who are master recruiters, wish to recruit as many good candidates as possible.

The world renowned Tata Consultancy Services has accredited Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology for the recruitment and the visit of the TCS team for the recruitment 2005 was held on the 1st & 2nd July 2004 and have selected 90 students.