Placement boom has broken the Corona Pandemic Lockdown Barrier at IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad as the institution has witnessed the highest number of students selected by national and international companies in the last three years.
As per IIT ISM Career Development Center (CDC), online placement at IIT ISM began on Monday night (12 AM) and until Thursday 11 a.m., 188 students were recruited by 45 national and foreign companies.
One hundred students have already been selected by different companies under the Pre-Placement Offer (PPO).
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IIT ISM has been closed since March 22 as a result of a Corona pandemic. Companies are making selections from campus online while students are sitting in their homes.
Official of CDC claimed that Yash Kumar Soni of IIT ISM has so far received the highest annual package of INR 48.38 lakh in Jharkhand and Bihar in three days of campus selection. The Japanese company Linkedwiz INC has selected Yash Kumar Soni, a computer science engineer.
Mohit Kishore of IIT Patna received the second highest annual package in two days of placement in Jharkhand and Bihar. Microsoft company has booked it for a Rs 43.5 lakh package per year. Mohit Kishore is a computer science engineer, too.
IIT ISM senior official said that despite a lockdown in 2020, the selection of 188 candidates on campus is the highest ranking IIT ISM in the last three years in two days.
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In 2019, a total of 116 candidates were selected for the first two days of campus selection at IIT ISM, while in 2018, 73 candidates were selected by companies in the first two days.
The official said that three foreign companies, including Linkwiz INC of Japan, have so far selected seven students from the institution in two days, starting at 12 a.m. on Monday.
CDC IIT ISM official said that although 45 companies are participating in the investment drive, all of them have shown great interest in computer science engineers. Up to now, 56 students, including Yash Kumar Soni, have been selected from this stream, followed by the Petroleum Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments, with 15 and 12 candidates, respectively.
Due to the safety point of view, the IIT ISM management did not share the personal identification of selected students who appeared in an online interview.
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