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THE BHOPAL SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (AUTONOMOUS)
Accredited with A+ Grade by NAAC in 4th Cycle
Affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal
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Career Guidance, Training & Placement Cell Report 2020-21
The Bhopal School of Social Sciences have always believed in supplementing academic pursuits with industry exposure to increase the employability skills of students. A dedicated Career Guidance, Training and Placement Cell works the aim to develop competitive competencies amongst students, understanding their potential and match them with their career interests. The Cell has been proactive since its inception in providing students of various streams a robust platform to hone their employability skills and industry readiness to face the competitive corporate environment. It has facilitated students with various relevant and up to date sessions, skill development programs, internships and placement opportunities, supporting their professional and personal growth.
In these times of uncertainity and global dynamism where the entire world is affected by the pandemic, the cell played an active role in motivating students through various sessions to keep them updated and inspired in challenging times. With the entire world locked in their homes due to COVID-19, the cell adopted the technolical aids for reaching out to its stakeholders. It conducted various expert sessions, workshops and placement drives virtually, being continuously available to students and assisting them in developing their career goals and path. It has organised various sessions with experts from the industry addressing the students on current industry needs, dynamics, emerging job opportunities and skills in the job market.
Some of the important sessions/webinars conducted include:
Webinar on "New Age Careers"
Webinar on "Career Opportunities and Challenges in Financial Markets"
Webinar on "Careers in Social Sector"
Webinar on "GST and Career Ahead"
Webinar on "Career in Media Industry"
Webinar on "Entrepreneurship"
To understand different competitive examinations and opportunities in education the cell organised sessions on:
Fast Track Strategies for Competitive Exams,
First Pay Cheques - An Investor Awareness Program,
All about Internships
The Cell has helped students redefine their skills as per requirement of industry for cultivating the right skills sets and comprehensive development through various capacity building and knowledge sharing sessions like:
Session on Email Etiquette
Session on Preparing for virtual Placements ,
Session on Effective Resume Building
Webinar on "Be your own brand"
Webinar on "21st Century Workplace Skills"
Sighting the importance of training and grooming, the cell conducted following training sessions with industry experts:
The cell received an overwhelming feedback of its Certificate Programme in Banking, Finance and Insurance (CPBFI) under the Finishing School Program started the previous year in association with Bajaj Finance Limited. Many final year students enrolled and pursued the 120 hour professional certificate programme that aims at holistic development of students improving the technical, soft skills and other employability skills of students along with internship opportunities in the industry. The cell played a dominant role in motivating and mentoring students paying attention to their personal needs to redefine their career goals through one to one counselling sessions, psychometric tests, improving their cognitive skills and emotional intelligence.
The cell has always sustained its efforts to provide practical industry exposure and real world experience facilitating them with internship opportunities with our industry partners, hosting internship drives or sharing available part time employment opportunities after college hours. It has benefitted the students both in professional and personal capacity along with generating monetary benefit. Our students are pursuing short term or summer internships in roles of content writing, digital marketing, social media marketing, HR intern and so on with NowIntern, MyCaptain, Internshala and may more.
Our industry linkages and placement records are evident of the confidence and quality of our students with more than 15 companies holding virtual placement drives with more tha 200 offers. Our prominent and esteem recruiters are Wipro, TCS, British Telecom, Amazon Web Services, South Indian Bank, Deloitte, TaskUS, Zomato, Sutherland, Artech, Echolics, Systemonex Pvt. Ltd., Xeeva, Netlink and many more.
Thus the Career Guidance, Training and Placement Cell has lived up to its goal of sharpening student's skills for making informed choices regarding their career. Acknowledging the career opportunities and trends in current market scenarios through strong initiatives offering better job avanues and professional guidance taking in view of their career aspirations. This is not an end as the cell continues to identify and provide placement and internship opportunities for students beyond the bracket of a number ensuring best offers.
Career Guidance, Training & Placement Cell Report 2019
In Placements, there are no good or bad experiences - just learning experiences!!!
As an educational institution, The Bhopal School of Social Sciences always concerns about its well-fortified insightful objectives. The BSSS Career Guidance, Training & Placement Cell provide students with a platform to prepare themselves to complete and succeed in the commanding and competitive global world. The cell imparts knowledge and skills through innovative & intensive training methodologies. Keeping in view the holistic and comprehensive development of our students, the concept of finishing school has been initiated under which multiple training programmes & workshops were conducted round the year. These programmes aimed at upgrading the overall personality of the students with major focus on life skills, communication, soft skills, and body language, corporate etiquette and work ethics, leadership and team building skills, public speaking, time and stress management. In order to build the profile of the students, most of these quality enrichment workshops were held as short-term certification programmes. Mock Group discussions and Interview sessions and aptitude tests were also organised. A 120 hour Professional Certificate Programme in Banking, Finance & Insurance in partnership with Bajaj Finserv Limited was also launched under the Finishing School for the final year students. In association with world's renowned multinational company Barclays, multiple virtual training & exposure sessions were also conducted in the college to improve the employability skills of the youth.
With the intention to provide real-world experience and gain skills which can be applied in their career later on, the college encourages and facilitates the students in finding internship opportunities which can be pursued after the college hours. Depending upon their areas of interest, a number of students benefited in professional and monetary terms through internships in varied profiles like marketing, content writing, digital marketing, HR & many more.
The placement team helps the students to plan their career by mentoring them about the diverse opportunities and the profiles of the companies which come to the college for placements. Our Placement record is a proof of confidence which the corporates from the industry have shown in our students. More than 20 companies have visited the college so far in the session 2019-2020 for campus placements with more than 500 offers being given to our students. Our major recruiters of the session include Wipro, TCS, Godrej & Boyce Ltd., British Telecom, TashUs, Infosys, Policy Bazaar, Collabera, Amazon, Sagar Public School and Artech Infosystems. The Placement Cell has yet not concluded the final placements for the batch of 2019-20 & still look forward to inviting more & more companies with mautifarious profiles to ensure that every student of our college gets into the right career.
Total number of offers given for the batch that passed out in 2020 - 501
Total percentage of students placed in the batch that passed out in 2020 - Results awaited for results of some placements
Total number of international placements for the batch that passed out in 2020 - Nil
Total number of students opted for higher studies 2020 - Awaited
of companies that visited the campus for final placements in Academic Year 2019-2020 batch - 17
Total recruiters for 2019-2020 batch - 23
BSSS Training & Placement Cell Report 2018-19
"Climbing to the top demands strength and skills, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career".
Dr.A.P. J. Abdul Kalam
The Career Guidance, Training & Placement Cell of The Bhopal School of Social Sciences is experiencing another fruitful year of placements in the academic year 2018-19 which saw various companies approach us in their hunt for fresh talent for their organizations. This year also the cell started the session by organising several seminars & workshops for students- The seminar on Soft skills Development and Career Building, mock Group Discussions, creating an impressive Curriculum Vitae , Interviewing & Aptitude skills. These seminars were conducted for both Second & Final Year students of all the streams. A number of renowned brands recruited our students, the major among them being Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Zomato, ICICI Prudential Ltd., Smart School Education P Ltd., Larsen & Toubro, South Indian Bank, Artech Infosystem, Amazon, Shree Bhavan's Bharti Public School and Svatantra Microfinance P Ltd. The Cell has been growing from strength to strength and the maximum annual CTC for 2018-19 batch so far has been 6.6 Lacs per annum. The placement cell maintains a constant contact with its Pass-out students as well & sends the students regular mails notifying them about the companies that would be visiting thereby encouraging them to apply for the recruitment procedure.
The Placement takes esteem pride in calling Global MNC's like Wipro Aon Alight , Amazon, ICICI Prudential Ltd and Collabera targeting all the Course / streams ( B.Com / BBA / BA / BCA) for placing maximum students on good job profiles. The recruitments were not only based for positions in their home town like Appointy , HDFC Life but in tier I / metropolitan cities too offering great learning experience .It also targeted companies for specific groups like social work , computer applications, tourism students bringing companies like Action for Social Advancement, Deloitte, Yatrawale.com ,Kalka IAS Academy, Sambandh Bank . Shree Bhavans Bharti offered jobs to Bed / PG students in academics while Elite Research, Future Generali came with market research and Financial Advisors for BBA and B.Com students . CFACT Consulting Services Pvt Ltd and Motif Recruiting Firm looked for associate recruiters / consultants dealing with US / Global clients in tier II cities giving a global cultural exposure for giant leap in future.HDFC Life and Gandhi Fellowship not only offered lucrative positions but opportunities for career advancement through Training and Diploma on paid internships by companies. Concentrix made the largest number of selections making a buzz by selecting 166 final year students from various streams including pass-outs .Training & Placement cell continued its promise of holistic development of students by organizing Speed Internship Fair in collaboration with CollegeKhabri.com giving an opportunity to students from Ist year onwards to work as summer interns (paid) in startups of Bhopal .It mediated between the needs of academic and industry bring 20 startups and nearly 700 students from BSSS and other colleges of Bhopal.
BSSS Training & Placement Cell Report 2017-18
Like every year, The Bhopal School of Social Sciences continued to enjoy immense confidence from the corporate world as substantiated by the remarkable placement season for the Batch 2015-2018. The recruiters continued to show their faith in the outstanding abilities of the students, offering them better profiles. The season began with a series of training to develop the overall personality of the students and to give them tips on cracking the interviews. The placement process saw participation from leading companies like Deloitte, TCS, Capgemini, Godrej & Boyce, Alight Solutions, Etech Global, ICICI Bank, HDFC Life, Capital Builder, Bookmycollege.com etc to name a few. Students were offered various coveted roles in E-commerce, FMCG, IT/ITES, Consulting, Education and Marketing & Sales. The institute achieved great heights in this placement season with record breaking 146 offers being given by Concentrix. The placement offer count has increased exponentially from the previous years and so far around 273 job offers have been given to our students, with the average salary package of 3 Lacs per annum. Apart from training our students and providing best placement opportunities, The Training & Placement Cell together with ED Cell arranged a four day Entrepreneurship Development Event, wherein, people from emerging start-ups, Banks & Government Organisations like MSME were called to encourage and identify the enterprising potential of our students. The Cell also arranged stockMIND Contest which is an initiative of ICICIdirect Centre for Financial Learning and aims at testing the investment and financial skills of the students. At BSSS, we provide a platform for young minds to unleash their potential, dream big, seize opportunities, think radically, strengthen corporate relations, never stop learning and most importantly, never stop growing. We express our sincere gratitude to our recruiters with whom we desire to establish enduring professional relationships. The institute is looking forward for more upcoming on and off campus recruitments for the final year batch and announce the successful completion of this year's placement process.
BSSS Placement Report (July - December 2017)
The advent of a new academic year marked the onset of another placement season, full of frenzy and enthusiasm. This year, the placement activities at The Bhopal School of Social Sciences began in the month of August with a training session on "Career Options after Graduation", which was attended by over 500 students from Final and Pre-Final year. In mid August 2017, the Placement Cell organised a Training session on "Resume Writing" by Mr. Aditya S. Rathore, a BSSS Alumni, and a career Guidance Expert. This session was attended by over 360 Final and Pre-Final Year Students. In August end, a Training Session on "Interviewing Skills" was also organised. It was taken by an experienced and renowned soft-skill trainer Dr. Reshmi Manna, from IBS Gurugram.
In September , the cell organised interviews for "Internships at Sayaji Group of Hotels, Bhopal". A campus drive was organised by a leading financial analysis company "Capital Builder Financial Services, Indore". Placement cell is not only concerned with the current batch of students but is equally and continuously putting effort to bring outstanding placement opportunities for our previous pass-out students as well. So, to provide job opportunities to our alumni, a campus drive of "Deloitte Consulting India P Ltd" was organised for 2017 Batch.
In November, with the good response from the 2017 batch, "Deloitt Conculting Ltd." conducted two more off-campus drives for 2017 as well as 2016 batches. This time they also allowed M.Com, BBA, & BCA students to participate. Later "Jaipuria Quiz League" was organised by Jaipuria Institute of Management for B.Com Final Year students. It was very well appreciated by the students. The month ended with campus drive by a leading start-up "bookmycolleges.com".
The Placement cell is working hard for the coming placement season for Final year students from January to invite leading companies for a plethora of job profiles like Consulting, Education, Technology, ITES, BPOs, Finance, Audit and Investment Banking to name a few. Many reputed companies graced the campus season last year, and the college is looking ahead for their participation this year also.
It's been our prime aim to continue working successfully to connect the job seekers with the corporate stalwarts, who handpick the selected few and match the requisite knowledge and expertise. The Placement cell hopes to reach greater heights in the remaining part of the academic year. The placement session has already started on a positive note at BSSS and it is set to attain many more milestones by the end of this academic year.
BSSS Placement Report 2016-2017
The Bhopal School of Social Sciences with its picturesque campus, state-of-the-art infrastructure and meritorious students, continuous to be one of the leaders in the city in the field of education. Our students continue o prove their mettle in national corporate competitions, academics, and placements - thereby strengthening the brand of the institute in the corporate world. Each year, the college hosts organisations from a plethora of different industries and sectors offering diverse profiles across verticals and functional domains. For 2016-17 batch, the training and placement session begun with various coherent training programmes to mould the students to become competitive professionals. Various training's were imparted to sharpen up their skills in Quantitative Ability and Logical Reasoning. Importance was also given on the development of soft skills & resume making too. Mock Tests were also conducted to suit the requirements of the institution so when the students finally face-to-face with the employers, there are no surprises. These training's will help students to acquire their dream jobs and facilitate them in the development of their overall personality. After regular training's, the institute commenced with the campus recruitment programme with great enthusiasm and the placement count increased exponentially from the previous year. The major recruiters of the season were TCS, Ripples Advisory, South Indian Bank, Mindlance Inc., Aon Hewitt, Deloitte Consulting, Xeeva Inc., ICICI Prudential, Godrej & Boyce Mfg., Edunirvana, Kamla Nehru School, Jaro Education & many more. The distinctive number of offers this year portrays the industry's confidence in BSSS for the quality of students in a vastly growing and competitive market.
BSSS Placement Report 2015-2016
The Placement Cell is a group of student volunteers, placement committee & placement incharge which assists in the placements of its passouts. It coordinates the placement activity in the campus for students in the final year and already passout students of the various programmes of study carried out by the college.
Continuing with what was seen in placements in The Bhopal School of Social Sciences during previous academic years, various leading corporates across industries participated in large numbers offering exciting roles. Companies from different sectors including BPO, KPO, BFSI (Banking, Financial services and Insurance), IT,ITES, e- Commerce have been invited to hire fresh pool of talent of 2016 batch passouts of The BSSS. Niche profiles in Sales, marketing & operations have been offered by a number of recruiters. The Placement Cell in BSSS has proved an excellent track record in placing students in reputed organizations. All the reputed organizations including MNCs come to the College for campus recruitment.The students, in turn have made the college feel proud by excelling in their roles. It has been the department's endeavor to develop competent human resources with necessary skills and responsible citizens for the society. From upcoming batches, we are planning to take feedback from industries regarding designing/changing of curriculum so that high quality is achieved in technical education and professional guidance imparted at our Organisation.On the basis of the feedback received , the placement cell will regularly conduct career development programmes, guest lectures on personality development, resume writing, group discussions, interview techniques and, mock interviews as well.
The Institution started it's placement season in September 2015, with one of the nation's leading hospitality companies , "Global Vision Hospitality Pvt Ltd", a subsidiary of Club Group of Hotels. The company visited to hire students for the post of Business Development Trainees.Sales & Marketing emerged as the preferred management sphere with most of the batch securing offers in this domain.While the season witnessed participation of companies from varied industry sectors, the maximaum offers came from the BFSI (Banking, Financial services and Insurance) Sector,followed by the IT & ITES Sector. The season has seen a total of 162 offers being made so far by the 17 Companies in which the students appeared for the recruitment process.The Compensation statistics showed a marked improvement with the Average CTC of the season being INR 3 LPA. The highest CTC was INR 4.25 LPA , being offered to 30 students by Allstate Solutions Private Limited (ASPL) which ranks number 89 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies in the United States.
With 43 offers , TCS made its mark as the largest recruiter of the season. New entrant ICICI Prudential also selected 33 students for its Business Development Programme.Mirroring the upward trend of hiring , the industry giant Larsen & Toubro Ltd( L&T) made its presence felt by offering 18 students with their back-end office profiles in various processes. While Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Limited, AON Services India P. Ltd, Gradmener Technology P. Ltd, Ripples Advisory P Ltd, Linkruit , Jaro Education and ZS Associates were first-time recruiters, regular recruiters included companies like Infosys,Tech Mahindra,and HDFC Bank. E-Commerce Giant AMAZON also recruited 8 students from our college for it's Business Development Role.
"The student quality truly exceeded expectations! Keep impressing us."
-ICICI Prudential
"Thoroughly satisfied with the experience. Looking forward to a long-term relationship with the institute."
-ASPL
"Excellent performance by the participants. Also, the way the process was conducted complemented that."
-TCS
It's heartening to see the growing list of reputed companies preferring The Bhopal School of Social Sciences for their Campus Hiring Plans. The Placement Cell has worked to its best potential and I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to our recruiters, both regular & new , who made this placement season a sounding success.On behalf of our Institute, I would like to assure them that the selected candidates would add great value to their organizations . And finally I would like to wish the 2016 Batch, all the happiness and success in the years to come.
Report by: Shubhra Bhatia
Placement Incharge-BSSS