IIT Delhi Placements 2020: Students bag 925 job offers in first phase of virtual placement session

Out of the total placement offers, the core field jobs comprise 32 per cent of the total offers followed by 29 per cent IT jobs, 10 per cent consulting jobs, 8 per cent management positions, 6 per cent analytics-based jobs and 5 per cent finance jobs.

IIT Delhi Placements: In the first virtual placement session conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis more than 925 students have received job offers. Around 200 companies have hired students for around 250 different job profiles including the pre-placement offers. The top recruiters include Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Tata Projects, EXL Services, ICICI Bank, Goldman Sachs, HCL, Wells Fargo and IQVIA.

Students were also offered jobs in more than 20 international companies. In these companies, students will continue working from India and will shift their base depending on the COVID-19 situation in both concerned countries. The international offers have been made by companies situated in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Middle East, and Singapore.

Out of the total placement offers, the core field jobs comprise 32 per cent of the total offers followed by 29 per cent IT jobs, 10 per cent consulting jobs, 8 per cent management positions, 6 per cent analytics-based jobs and 5 per cent finance jobs.

Anishya Madan,Head, Office of Career Services, IIT Delhi, while explaining the placement trends as she said, “Most students have opted for jobs in their technical core. Since IT and Analytics are core to some departments like Computer Science, Mathematics and Computing. Further, management students opted for management roles”.

Ms Madan mentioned that IIT Delhi students have prioritised getting jobs in their core fields over consultants or finance companies as she said, “We can say around 90 percent students have bagged offers in their core”.

As per reports, more than 400 companies have registered for hiring IIT Delhi students for more than 675 job profiles. Many of these recruiters are expected to hire students in the second phase of IIT Delhi placement 2021 that may begin by the end of January and continue till May 2021.

The Day 1 of the IIT Delhi placement session 2020 saw over 300 job offers, however, this year the number of offers made were comparatively lesser than the last year which had a total of 960 offers. Various IITs had been holding placement sessions for the outgoing batch of 2021 in virtual mode. IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee, IIT Bhubaneswar , IIT BHU have been holding their placement sessions.

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