Move over excel sheets, the renaissance of campus placements is here!
Campus placements, which undeniably is one of the most critical episodes of a student’s life is dependent on a tiring manual system, food for thought? While our leaders dream of cashless societies, the career services and placement cells of most colleges across the country are still stuck with excel sheets and free gmail. The aspirations of millions of students about to step into professional lives are dependent on this-a 90’s system in the 21st century.
The fact is that the basic processes of campus hiring being fairly outdated does not suit the nation that hails digitization at such a large scale. It’s not just sad, it’s downright scary. Digital transformation is the need of the hour. In an era where automation, data analytics and data intelligence are optimising even the most mundane of daily activities (think ordering groceries online), why do we still persist with heritage systems to shape the future of our youth and the nation they are building?
Fortunately though, some of the young minds experimented and successfully synchronized the procedure of shaping professional careers with the times that we live in. Their start-up Reculta organizes and digitizes campus placements across the country. A concept developed and implemented by the alumni of some of the top B-schools of India like IIM-A and FMS, Reculta shines as one-of-a-kind solution for campus placements, with an impressive clientele including IIMs, FMS, NMIMS, IIFT and many more.
“It was disheartening to see the world getting digitized but campus placements still working the way it was working in the 90s”,says Vidyarthi, co-founder, Reculta. While speaking about the challenges he faced during developing the concept of Reculta, Vidyarthi adds, “Even the top campuses are using primitive tools to handle campus placements that serve as the most critical part of the campus life for almost every student. I wanted to challenge the status-quo even after being repeatedly told not to play around with well-established processes.”
The dismissal of the trusted-yet-tiring paper-pen procedures by the institutions is very evident in the way day to day activities are being carried out: this includes application management, payment of tuition fee by students, access cards, biometrics to record attendance, salary disbursement to employees etc. Campus placement is no exception to this revolution. Kajal, co-founder, Reculta, explains, “In a space as critical as campus placements, where every shortlist, every offer is hard fought for, it’s amazing how minimal is the effort given to capturing and organizing data. The waste of such valuable data is criminal and we want to change all of that.”
When the source of change is readily available, there remains no question of looking back to find loopholes in the new plan. Giving up old-fashioned rags to don a new gown is never a bad option. After all, Change is the only constant in life.
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What Is Your Opinon About Campus Placements In Our Country?
- Students need more personalised insights to prepare for placements
- Placement systems badly need digital tech to match 21st century needs
- Placements are just fine and we should not tinker with tradition
- Digitisation eases access to information and removes opacity/red tape
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