Hybrid placements are becoming a norm at leading colleges, B-schools

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

B-schools, including the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), which were forced to switch to a fully online hiring model during the pandemic, have now made hybrid placements the norm.

Despite post-Covid normalcy fully restored, almost all these institutes are keeping the online recruitment option open for hiring companies in addition to offline mode, placement sources at IITs including Delhi, Bombay, Roorkee, Kharagpur, Kanpur and IIMs at Ahmedabad, Indore and Kozhikode told ET.

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Reasons: Many recruiters prefer the online mode as they save on time and travel costs; for institutes too, the online route is easier to coordinate.

Also, institutes which are at a locational disadvantage, away from main metros, making travel far more cumbersome for recruiters, now get more opportunities in line with their counterparts in more central locations like Delhi, Bombay and Bengaluru.

«Online route is preferred especially in case of institutes that are in difficult locations. It is also preferred by recruiters in case of exigency and sometimes it is just convenient,» said Himanshu Rai, director, IIM Indore.

Also, due to Covid-19 all good institutes have pivoted their infrastructure to a virtual environment for hiring, teaching, etc, Rai said.

A handful of recruiters did hire through online mode even before the pandemic. However the number of recruiters opting for the online mode has shot up