kolkata at least 100 students of iitkharagpur have been groomed for oneandahalf months to help them face interviewers to bag their dream jobs these are students who were not confident about facing campus placements on their own and were hence hand held by the institute which had an special arrangement with a private grooming agency iitkharagpur authorities confirmed that this is the only iit in the chain to provide such a facility to students who needed help the placements start on thursday with a large number of psus and corporate houses from all industry sectors visiting the campus though these students opted for this additional grooming for the interviews there is no reason to believe that they are academically weak explained authorities their average grade points are all impressive but they felt the need for additional grooming because they thought their english speaking skills and the skill to present their individual cases needed a lot of improvement the grooming was held every day from october 1 to november 12 by a professional agency and was supplemented by industry representatives who gave specific speaking modules to the students according to their specific needs tips about what to wear how to be more confident and how to present ones academic achievements and longterm plans problemsolving skills to the interviewer were also givenindustry professionals taught them about reallife industry situations to the learners additionally two preassessment tests comprising aptitude english language numerical problem solving and computer knowledge were also conducted by the cdc as practice tests students who appeared for this may be exempted from similar tests that are conducted by some of the recruiters explained debashish deb a faculty member who heads the cdcstudents often in a hurry to get a high paying job end up making a wrong choice during placements a large chunk opts for it finance banking and consulting jobs giving the core sectors a miss naturally within a couple of years they get disillusioned this time sensitization programmes were run by the cdc so that the students look at jobs from a 360degree perspective and not go with the trend the institute is happy that this year at least 13 psu giants representing core sectors are making a beeline for the campus while google has decided to go for offcampus placement many new companies from the financial sector in india and abroad have registered for the phaseone recruitment these companies will be hiring mostly for the business analyst position iitkharagpur will have presence from almost all reputable multinational banking institutions in india and several foreign banks from southeast asia the thriving urban transport hire companies have also focused on iitkharagpur for boosting their software development and digital services