IITs chase recruiters early to avoid a repeat of last year's scramble
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Placement teams at India’s top technology schools are chasing potential recruiters early to avoid a repeat of last year’s struggle to land jobs for their graduates, even as companies are still undecided about their hiring numbers. While recruiters from information technology and related services, core industries, manufacturing and banking sectors have started registering with the Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs), the companies haven’t disclosed their targets for the batch of 2025, according to a placement officer at one of the new IITs.
They are yet to get hiring numbers from their HR teams, he said. Of the 23 IITs, first-generation institutes including Madras, Bombay, Delhi, Kharagpur, Roorkee and Kanpur start the placement season in December. The second- and third-generation IITs, along with the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), begin in August-September to get a headstart.
A significant number of 2024 batch graduates from both old and newer IITs were not picked by May-June, when the placement season ends. While that reflected uncertainty in the global economy, many firms were brimming with graduates from the frenzied hiring during the pandemic. The institutes then reached out to their alumni and startups, and accepted lower-than-usual compensation.
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