How important is Campus Selection?

Many students I come across are unaware about how important is getting a job during graduation (generally referred as campus selection).Generally, students make the disastrous mistake of not preparing for a campus interview well in advance. The realization generally comes too late, often after the first interview is over.  Confidence level of even the brightest is bound to go down a notch or two after messing up one interview. So the key is, “Get it right the first time!”

Campus interview season is already well on its way, and it won’t be long before you are confronted with your first corporate showdown. Intimidating thought? Most certainly; but it is natural to be a little anxious before your first campus interview process. In fact, a little anxiety might actually enhance your performance. Let this nervous energy drive your efforts to success.

Campus selection is the biggest platform for a student to get himself and his career a good break and kick-start as his fresher level. Thus preparing for campus selection has to be very strategic, it being your first interview.

The benefits that student derives from Campus selection can be summarized as:

1. The invaluable job platform: Various big companies, even including MNCs do visit college campuses in search for fresh talents. The hiring of these companies otherwise (outside campus after graduation) is quite tough to get through, and to get in you would need references or real good labor.

2. Better offers at hand: Better and viable profiles and posts are offered to students in campus interviews, outside market competition for which could be quite high.

3. Handsome packages: Handsome or at least reasonable packages are offered to the fresher’s at their campus selection, obviously in-line with the ranking of the college and the past campus records, skill sets of the candidate, etc. Student’s performance definitely could take the slab further negotiable.

4. In-campus ambiance: Wherein the interviews are being held in your own college, your teachers and friends are out there and you have been oriented about the how abouts. These factors work a lot, both directly as well as indirectly, boosting your confidence, morale, etc.

5. Support for further growth: Getting a good campus offer/job quite a lot eases your further job-changes and growth path. It kick starts the career progression.

6. Safeguards against job struggle: Outside your college campus exists a firing world of competition, too tough and full of pains of struggle for freshers. Therein you not only need to give all your stamina and energy, trying to get a good job, but the earnings also do turn out to be peanuts, as the packages and job-configuration also come in hand thin and weak. The resources (time and money) you spend in finding and getting a job outside campus are generally excessively higher than that what you could have spent on the campus.

So to take a smooth career road, prepare well for your campus interview and leave no stone un-turned!

Above post was based on my experience and current observation of the 2014 batch. I hope the readers of consecutive batches would take a note and act upon!