Alva's Pragati witnessed 10,363 job aspirants

May 11, 2013

Moodbidri, May 11: Alva's Education Foundation organized the sixth mega job fair, Alva's Pragati—2013 on Saturday at Alva's College, Moodbidri. The event started off with the registration of job aspirants who had come from different parts of the state. The companies that had registered for this job fair were from different sectors that included Mechanical, Civil, IT/ITES, BPO, Management, Sales & Retail, BFSI, Hospitals, Media, Medical and Para- Medical companies and many more.

The event was inaugurated by Mr. Sudhir Shetty, COO Global Operations, UAE Exchange and Mr Amarnath Shetty, former MLA. The function was presided over by Dr M Mohan Alva, Chairman Alva's Education Foundation.

Dr Mohan Alva in his presidential address said that the job fair was open for students from all parts of the state.

He added that such job fairs needed to be organized by various other colleges who actually have the potential of doing such social welfare programs of huge social concern.

Mr. Sudhir Shetty pointed that in today's global world scenario transportation, media and communication has linked the world into one big family.

“A job seeker has to not only project his educational merits but needs to have the right commitment, honesty and the best personality to get into these companies. Job aspirants have various companies that are here in the campus to give them spot offers and all that they have to do is to attend those interviews with character and merits that would impress those companies,” he added.

K. Amarnath Shetty who is also a well wisher of Alva's Education Foundation, said that he has attended various programs organized by Alva's Education Foundation in the past years, and these type of societal welfare programmes are actually very helpful for the growth of the institution and also amidst this recession crisis, Alva's Pragati has managed to enroll 156 companies. It is a very great task which has been successfully undertaken by Alva's team.

Mr Vivek Alva, Managing trustee Alvas Education Foundation said that a record of 10,363 students had participated and registered in this job fair on the first day itself and 156 companies had arrived at Vidyagiri campus in order to select these job aspirants with more than 7,000 openings. Some of the main companies that enrolled themselves today were Titan, Videocon, Fabtech, Aditya Birla group, UAE EXCHANGE, COCO-COLA, 24x7,SUTHERLAND , ITC, IBM, Fortis, L&T, Taj Group, ICICI Bank, TVS, Suzlon, Mphasis, TAFE, Axis Bank, Gold Finch, Xchanging, Aegis, Capgemini.

The job fair will be held even on Sunday wherein more companies are going to attend the mega event.

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