Try to get campus selection while you are still in college itself, 90%. After coming out, getting a job becomes very difficult. For example, take Java. In campus selection, even if you score five points in Java, it is enough. Out of 10, you must get 10 out of 10 or at least 9 out of 10. They ask in-depth questions, advanced skills, and advanced subjects. They may even say they will pay less salary. That means if you miss campus selection in college and then go to Ameerpet for coaching, companies will know about it. Any industry will not always give placements based on percentages, marks, or college attendance. They will give placement based on these five skills. In this blog, let’s see the 5 key steps on how to Ace Campus Selection in College.
Focus on Campus Selection in College
Students in B.Tech final year or third year should mainly focus on getting a job through campus selection. If you don’t get a job in campus selection, you will face many problems:
- Time and effort lost in coaching or courses
- After coming out, you need to join coaching centers or institutes and do courses.
- For this course, it may take three months or six months.
- Even after six months, there is no guarantee you will get a job.
- After coming out, getting a job may take up to one year.
- So instead of wasting one year like this, it is better to get a job in campus selection.
- Limited company exposure
- Generally, MNC companies visit campuses for interviews.
- But if you miss campus selection and come outside, normally institutes are visited by small companies, startup companies, and mid-level companies, but not MNC companies.
- Salary differences
- Only in campus selection do they offer higher packages.
- If you finish B.Tech and then search for a job, generally packages are lower.
- Career gaps
- If you come out and still don’t get a job, it will result in a career gap.
- Social and financial pressure
- Some of your friends may get jobs while you don’t. Everyone will keep asking, “Did you get a job? Didn’t you get a job?”
- Your parents have already spent money on your engineering. On top of that, after coming out, again you need to spend money to learn courses, pay for hostels, pay for consultancies, and all these expenses will come.
Getting a job in campus selection is truly a blessing.
Reasons Some Students Fail in Campus Selection
Campus selection has a lot of advantages. Now, let’s see why some students get jobs in campus selection and why some don’t. Students who fail in campus selection and later come to our software training in Ameerpet come from small rural colleges, don’t even have proper awareness about campus selection.
Key Reasons
- Lack of awareness
- If you are in your third year, you still have two years’ time.
- If you are in your final year, you still have one year’s time.
- You must definitely increase awareness about campus selection.
- Weak mindset and communication skills
- Students who fail in campus selection usually have weak communication skills.
- They are not confident while speaking and perform very poorly in interviews.
- They feel shy, afraid, and fearful.
- Lack of technical skills
- In college, they don’t even have basic coding skills or knowledge.
- Whatever they studied was only from an academic point of view, but they are unable to write code, even for small logic or build small logic.
- They don’t have knowledge on advanced topics.
- They don’t even know about certain international standard certifications.
- College-side issues
- Many times, placement officers are not there in colleges at all.
- Since we cannot correct the college side, students should focus on off-campus drives if their college has no placement officer.
Example
Nowadays, getting campus selection has become easier. For example:
- TCS conducts its own exam.
- Infosys conducts its own exam.
- Platforms like HackerRank, LeetCode, etc., are also there.
- If you write those exams and perform well, you can also get hired through them.
Getting campus selection while in college is a separate skill. Having a good B.Tech percentage is different, getting a good EAMCET rank is different, being the best student in B.Tech is different, but getting campus selection is a completely different thing.
Skills Companies Look For
Some students with 90% didn’t get selected, while a student with 70% did get selected. Campus selection never depends on percentage. A percentage may make you a good student in a university’s view, but when a company comes for hiring, they mainly look at skills.
Five Key Points
- Communication and behavioral skills – Ability to talk to clients or improve communication.
- Technical skills – Technical skills keep changing over time:
- Once, it was databases, data warehousing, and big data.
- Earlier, it was enough to know only backend Oracle, later programming, then full stack, then integrating with cloud.
- Companies want to see whether you have the mindset to learn new technical skills.
- Teamwork – Most software jobs require teamwork. They check whether you have the required teamwork skills.
- Logical and mathematical thinking – Ability to solve complex problems.
- Flexibility – Willingness to work any shift, from any location.
Whether it’s an IT or non-IT company, when they hire you in campus selection, they mainly check these five points.
Improving Your Chances
- Start improving these five points in your third or final year.
- Many students think they are already working hard in college.
- That effort is only from an academic point of view, not industry-oriented.
- Industry never gives placement based on percentages, marks, or attendance. They always give based on these five skills.
Mistakes That Lead to Failure
Student Mistakes
- Not improving the five qualities mentioned above.
- Not improving technical skills.
- Not doing projects, hackathons, internships.
- Not improving communication skills.
- Not doing certifications.
College Mistakes
- For example, there may be 1000 students, but only one placement officer.
- Even that officer may not be updated.
Final Advice
Ninety percent try to get campus selection while in college. Once you come out, getting a job becomes very difficult.
- In the final year, use your time efficiently.
- Improve connections.
- Improve skills.
- Improve communication.
- Get placements.
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