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Making Institute-Industry Interface work through our Centre
for Industry Interface and Placements (CIIP) involvement
IndustryInstitute
(i-Square)
Interface:Institute-Industry or ouri-Square
Interface we define as interactive and
collaborative
arrangement
between
academic
institutions
and
business
corporations for the achievement of certain
mutually inclusive goals and objectives.
Industry rather than just being the
customers of Universities/Educational Institutions pass outs today have become stakeholders
and partners in progress. Industry on the other hand has also discovered the advantages of
collaborative learning opportunities. Corporations seek to play increasingly important role in
activities of academic institutions to incubate the talent they need. The shift towards the shortterm performance metrics and shareholders interest has led to a number of changes in conduct
of business, which has translated its effect on educational institutions.
For a long time universities and industry, have been operating in separate domains, are inching
towards each other to create synergies. Complex business environment, new paradigms in
management and technology, has necessitated these two to come closer. The interface has to
be harnessed to its full potential to take the mileage out of globalization by enhancing the
employability of students and make them industry ready.
Today, the definition of a good management school is largely dependent on its ability to offer
industry interface to its students that helps them enhancing their practical knowledge and
make them ready for the corporate world. The focus of Rai University is entirely to create
industry ready employable candidates. In times of cut-throat competition where everyone
strives hard for a successful career, industry interface is of prime importance.
Our Institute has always realised the need for effective interface with Industry and Business and
has undertaken the task of strengthening the linkages with them through various activities such
as : Management Development Programmes plans / Seminars / Workshops , Industry-Institute
Interface, Industry Visits, Personality Development Framework and Pre-Placement Counseling,
Developing & Executing the Placement Strategy, Placement Presentation at Various Companies,
Interaction with Potential Recruiters, Group Discussion followed by Interview Skills
Development Sessions, Career Guidance…..etc.
Our Industry Interface Channels
A. Industry live projects:For all students to gain real time experience, it is necessary
that they go through hands-on training. This platform is provided by the skills that they
acquire from the short projects that they do from Small Scale Industries. This is an
excellent opportunity for students to have close interaction with the industry-experts
who frequently give them live projects to work on. On completion of their projects, the
students are required to make presentation of their reports before the industry
representatives, faculty members and students.
Short projects are allotted in all of the functional
areas. The student is expected to study and
understand how things work in real time scenario.
Students are encouraged to do more industrial live
projects apart from Internship and Semester
Project to get maximum Industrial Exposure.
While working on live and time-bound projects,
they gain actual experience of the corporate
culture. The process helps them develop professional attitude, sense of responsibility,
analytical ability and leadership qualities. It also helps the industry in assessing the
students’ performance and potential, on the basis of which pre-placement offers are
often made.
B. Internship & Industrial visits:
As part of the curriculum, each student takes up live projects with a company for a
required period. The internship is the perfect opportunity for students to apply the
theoretical concepts learnt within the classrooms. It is an occasion for prospective
managers to explore varied career opportunities in the areas of their interest. They get a
better grasp of the important inter-linkages
among different functions and develop a
realistic managerial perspective on corporate
workings.
Industrial visits represent important activities
in any University that contribute to the
achievement of various essential learning
outcomes and programme objectives.
Frequent Industrial Visits are organized in Rai
University so that student will be aware about how various activities related to various
business elements are carried out in company and the exposure will make them industry
ready.
C. Workshops, Guest lectures & Seminars:
Rai University’s unique Workshops allow students to further develop marketable skills in
an intensive, interactive environment. Topics are selected through input from industry,
program administrators, and students.
Guest lectures are an integral part of the pedagogy of Rai University. We invites Guest
speakers from premier management schools and several industry professionals to share
their valuable insights from their loaded experience about current issues, the challenges
they are faced with and how they dealt with them.
Seminars offer students the opportunity to interact with top industry leaders,
experienced business managers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and small-business
owners. Designed to introduce students to different aspects of business and industry,
the series also includes information on career opportunity and development.
D. Business Forums:We plan to get engage ourselves into Business Forums, where Rai
University will be a platform for industrialists from different
fields will be under one roof. This forum will be really unique
in student perspectives as students of Rai University will get
to interact with industrialists within a span of their
course/programme. As students play an important role of hosting the events will get
ample opportunities to explore corporate world.
Placements:
The placement cell is an institutional arrangement in the University whose service is primarily
extended to assist students for full time jobs to the final year student’s community.The
Placement cell provides information regarding higher
education in India and abroad, job opportunities available in
the market through its notice board, emails and brochures. It
also extends its services by offering various trainings to the
students on personality development and career development skills, etc. The databases of the
students are managed by the cell which plays a critical role in getting jobs for the alumni.
The Placement Cell of Rai University will be assisting the final year students in paving a way to
their career.The cell comprises of Placement Director, Placement-in-charges and Placement
representatives (Students) from each department under its umbrella.It is indeed pleasure for
the placement cell to provide placements for Rai University students.