Startup Jobs Fair to help connect startups to campuses
We’ve all heard reports of how the on going financial crisis has really affected the placement scenario. As far as the engineering stream goes, even the elite colleges haven’t been spared. The big companies have all stopped hiring, and the ones who are recruiting, are doing it in the binary system.
Headstart.in has come up with a brilliant initiative called The Startup Job fair where they are acting as the platform to introduce engineering and management candidates from top tier institutions to start-ups.
We here at WAT also believe that a start-up is probably one of the best places to start off with. Fresh graduates will get to be part of an exciting team where they can make a huge impact on the organisation.
The start-ups fill out a form with their openings and submit it to Headstart guys who collaborate with the partnering colleges and connect them to the start-ups they are interested in.
However, it would help if the student volunteers who are involved from each college are guys who have a good idea about the start-up space in India. Similar initiatives were taken by the Proto.in team when they came out with StartupLunch which has had successful launches in various cities including Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai & Pune.
As of now the partnering colleges are:
Management campuses: Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay; SCMHRD, Pune; SIBM, Pune; IIM Kozhikode; SPJIMR, Mumbai;
Engineering campuses: IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee; BITS Pilani
Do check their site and register your college with them.
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I had posted about the same thing 10 days ago(on the 20th of this month). May be WATBLOG should do away with the guest login thing since you guys anyway don’t put up the guest’s post.
@suhani dewra: Hey suhani.. Just checked our inbox again after ur comment. I guess we missed that post. Our bad. Shall keep a better watch on guest posts next time around. Keep posting and thanks for pointing this out to us!
@Rajiv Dingra
Hopefully next time you don’t miss on the post
I think this is an excellent idea, but I have just one doubt….how many startups would require freshers? I have always believed tht startups should look for day one employees who can come and start adding value, unless the startup has grown substantially and can spare three months per employee to train them and get them up and running……food for thought
. Nevertheless, I think this is an excellent initiative and I will be glad to see startup benefiting from this.
Rizwan, i don’ think startups don’t reuiqre freshers. its only the fresh hands and heads (and feet) that can add great execution. for a long time, stratups will need to keep adding value by executing. since ideas and planning at the basic level for a short and mid term is in place, already.
since the org. is small and flat, the older guys can just assimilate the learnings from the “executives” and hit the drawing board n times a week to re-assess, tweak the direction
One thing I would like to add though is that before such an initiative is take, the startups have to make sure that the students fully understand what working in a startup is like. True one cant really know before experiencing before, but I suppose a presentation on the life in a startup would go a long way. Since the guy recruited will become an integral part of the company esp if its too small