ONLINE HIRING, VIRTUAL JOB FAIRS IN LUDHIANA

LUDHIANA : Due to social distancing, companies are hiring from campuses after online assessments and interviews but the process has been slow.

At Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, the placement cell was able to arrange jobs for only 25 final year students in three months, while 280 students were placed in companies such as Airbus and Samsung before March.

Covid-19 has buoyed hopes in the IT sector. Placement officer GS Sodhi says companies are interested in hiring students of computer science engineering.

More than 200 students of the Industrial Training Institutes have been recruited in the virtual job fair being held along with the district bureau of employment enterprises in the past fortnight. Government ITI, Gill Road, principal Baljinder Singh, says, “The jobs of welder, fitter and machinist are in demand.”

Balwant Singh, 22, a former student of ITI, says, “My class in-charge told me about the virtual job fair through which I’ve been hired by Hero Ecotech Limited at a monthly salary of Rs 17,200.”