Recruiters ditch engg. students

Slowdown in manufacturing sector is one of the major reason for drop in hiring

Final year engineering students from mechanical, production, electrical, civil branches are having fewer takers in campus recruitment drives that are ongoing in private engineering colleges this year.

The problem is more seen in tier-2 colleges, where IT forms are focusing on recruiting students from core streams-CSE and IT besides ECE. Campus recruitment was slightly affected due to talk about major reforms concerning immigration in the US right from the presidential election campaign till Donald Trump took office. Barring a few top colleges, the number of job offers to students has gone down this year.

Also, IT service and product companies confined the job drive to only some leading colleges. This had an impact on students pursuing engineering in other branches.

Prof. Ch. Sanjay, principal of the engineering college of a deemed university said a majorly of the B.Tech final-year students from mechanical, civil, electrical branches have to find jobs after graduating from the college or go for M.Tech study since software firms only concentrated on IT branches.

S. Pulla Reddy, MD of SP Software Ltd, Madhapur, stated that there was a slowdown in the manufacturing sector recruitment in nonIT streams. Also, with more number of engineering colleges to choose from, firms are focusing only on hiring students from computer branches. Not all private engineering colleges are feeling this impact.

Meritorious students from different streams in top 10 to 15 leading colleges are getting job offers. However, software firms visiting tier2 colleges are showing less inclination to hiring students from core engineering branches.