HCL to offer jobs to Madras Varsity students

NOIDA, INDIA: IT services provider HCL Technologies Ltd and Madras University on Tuesday jointly announced an initiative that allows First-Right-to-Placement to HCL Technologies to 1.5 lakh students in 120 colleges across three districts of Tamil Nadu affiliated to the Madras University.

In the first phase of this program branded Lakshayam - Powered by HCL, 300 students from Madras University have already been hired by HCL while Letters of Intent (LoI) have been extended to 1,000 more Madras University students.

Under the program, HCL will conduct employability drives for students across various disciplines at the Madras University campus and at the campuses of its affiliated collages. Selected candidates will be extended LoI to undertake a three month On-the-Job-Training at HCL’s Business Services division. During the training period, students would be paid a stipend and on completion of training, these students would be put through operational assessment. On successfully completing the operational assessment candidates would be inducted into HCL as full-time equivalents.

“This partnership with the Madras University is in line with HCL’s agenda to strengthen collaboration between industry and academia towards bridging the skill gap for the ITeS industry. The scope of this alliance is designed to further enhance the quality of the ITeS talent pool and thus raise the global employability of Madras University graduates,” said Subrat Chakravarty, HR Head — Business Services, HCL Technologies Ltd.