Andhra Pradesh

Over 2,000 students turn up for campus selections

Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

We will make it: Students participating in the recruitment drive organised by Infosys in Guntur on Thursday. —

GUNTUR: The anxiety was writ large on the faces of students, when an Infosys team member walked up to the stage and began calling out names of those qualified in the written test. A round of applause followed each announcement.

It all happed at the Government Women’s College here during a massive campus selection conducted by the Commissionerate of Collegiate Education and the event was coordinated by the staff of Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC) nodal centre here.

Over 2,500 final year students drawn from various colleges in Guntur, Krishna, Prakasam and Nellore districts turned up for the selections conducted by the software giant Infosys. Selections were held in the Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) wings and the heartening news was that more than 50 per cent qualified in the written test on Thursday. On Friday, group discussions,

HR round and interviews would be held.

“It is a fantastic feeling to attend the selections.

The test is very competitive as it tried our mastery over English language. I gave my best in the written test,” S. Suresh Kumar, a BPO aspirant and a final year B. Com student of S.S College, Jaggaiahpeta, in Krishna district said.

The students began arriving on the campus on Wednesday itself. College principal Shyam Prasada Rao said that they had provided accommodation and food to all students who stayed on the campus. “This is the biggest campus selections held in the State through JKCs and we are expecting that this centre would have the most number of selected candidates as well,” Mr. Rao told The Hindu.

The students had been trained by mentors trained at J.K.C nodal centre here. Centre coordinator Sasibala said that training was given in communication skills, personality development and reasoning skills.

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