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By offering tax break and global-standard regulations, the smart city has emerged as a corporate hub, which creates placements opportunities for local institutions that once depended on metro recruits such as Mumbai, Bangalore or Hyderabad.
Several multinational firms including HSBC, Graviton Research Capital, Oracle, Technip Energy, Tech Mahindra, Tower Research Capital, and Fintech Global have opened new offices at the financial center and are actively exploiting local talent pool.
Gift City-based recruitors may be responsible for a significant stake in placement this year, even comprehensive job markets face headwinds from technological changes, global uncertainties and tariffs, thanks to natural expertise in the financial technology of these institutions, Narayanan Ramaswamy, Partner and Skill Development Process and Skill Development Fort Skill development practice.
He said, “While management institutes also tap in occasions emerging from the city, there will be big beneficiaries engineering institutions. In the next two to three years, because the ecosystem reaches the entire capacity, the placement possibilities for these colleges are expected to be stronger,” he said.
Exert proximity
It helps companies if Tier -1 and Tier -2 are near engineering colleges, then a senior executive said in one of the above mentioned companies. “We are in touch with these engineering colleges for final placements and internships. Often, Gandhinagar is not necessarily the first choice for companies. However, for our gift city campus, it helps if we get students from nearby areas,” said the executive on condition of anonymity.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), and Dhirubhai Ambani University (East Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology or DA-IICT) said that they were expected.
“Gift City is expected to have a positive impact on our placement opportunities,” said the IIT-Gandhinagar spokesman.
The spokesperson said that expertise in Artificial Intelligence is proving to be rapidly valuable, as many recruitors prefer such skill sets when hiring.
Placement Coordinators said that closeness is the main factor that driving the recruiter interest. “Recently, a lot of new companies have come up with new offices in IFSC, and they are very keen to hire freshers from our institute, given closeness.
He estimated that more than 20% offers may come from the city firms, including the package. 5 lakhs 70 million, based on roles like analysts, software developers and product managers.
On the condition of anonymity, a senior official of one of the top engineering colleges said, “The proximity near the hub has made the nearby complexes in the favorite fare, which helps companies to cut rehabilitation costs by gaining access to students with strong regional acquaintances.”
For companies, the nearby colleges offer a ready bench of engineers and analysts at a lower cost compared to the larger metro. They also help prevent attraction between junior workforce. Companies can attract youth with the promise of a work place that is already familiar to them and often close to the house, reducing the possibility that the new joiners will completely leave due to transfer to the new industrial area.
For students, also, greed lies in working on a global mandate while being located in Gujarat.
The placement cycle for these colleges usually begins in September, offering to be closed by January. Institutions said that it is very early to identify the leading recruitments this year, as company registrations are still running. A spokesman for IIT-Gandhinagar said, “Shareing any placement data will be prematurely as the process is still going on.”
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