THE PLACEMENT CELL OF LAKSHMIBAI

COLLEGE,UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

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JOURNEY SO FAR..

“WINGS”

THE PLACEMENT CELL OF LAKSHMIBAI

COLLEGE,UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

ABOUT US “Wings of Change”! Over the last one decade, the

Indian society has witnessed a paradigm shift as

far as the preference of career options and

opportunities for women are concerned. The sole

intent is to empower the students to face the

professional world with befitting adroitness in

every possible way. As the name, “WINGS”

connotes the soaring aspirations of the students,

their indomitable spirits to reach sky and beyond.

As a part of campus engagements, several of our

students have been selected by reputed

organizations such as Genpact, Tata Power Delhi

Distribution Limited, Adroit Financial Services Pvt.

Ltd., Binary Semantics (for permanent deputation

to Google India),Yes Bank, Fork and Spoon, Go

Ads, and Laurent and Benon. Further, companies

such as American Express, EXL–Operations

Management and Analytics, Smartprix, Aditya

Birla Financial Services, Human First Consulting

Pvt. Ltd., Urban Clap, RFCL, Indian Express, HDFC

Bank, Times Internet, Zomato, eWards, Inkpot,

and ML Books International have also expressed

an interest to hire our students. Next, with regard

to placements through the Central Placement Cell

(University of Delhi), Wipro, Infosys,TechGinee,

Fidelity National Information Services for the

process of Google AdWords, FRR Forex Pvt. Ltd.,

Amazon India, IndiGo, British Telecom Global

Business Services, Heritage Schools, Tech

Mahindra, Mera Job India, Shaadi. Com have

shortlisted/selected our students.

The placement cell is also associated with various

internship portals such as Internshala,

Interntheory and Sociowash. Furthermore, DU

Student Interns Scheme 2017 (University of Delhi),

Orange Octopus, Eat My News, TopYaps, OYO

Rooms, The Testament, Weekendr (The Skill

School), Dadpreneur, Connect2India, Nearbuy,

Cream Feeds, Career 360, The Financial Doctors,

cefy, Sociowash, PAGES and many more have

invited our students for summer internship

programs. Students have also been invited for

fellowship opportunities through Teach For India

and Gandhi Fellowship Program.

Wings has an interactive corner on the college

website and an informative Facebook page, along

with a LinkedIn account to update the students of

the activities of the placement cell and also,

create a connect with leading companies to seek

out placement/internship opportunities.

OUR MENTORS PATRON:

DR. PRATYUSH VATSALA ( PRINCIPAL)

CONVENOR:

MS. UMA

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

CO-CONVENOR:

MS. UJJAIYINI ROY

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

ADVISOR:

DR. GAYATRI

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

MEMBERS:

MS. SUMAN SONKAR

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

MS. PRACHETA BAKSHI

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

DR. NICHETA BHATIA

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR , DEPARTMENT OF FOOD TECH.

MS. NEHA MATHUR

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

MR. KRISHAN KANT

ASSISANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

ACTIVITIES SO FAR..

GOOGLE FORM FOR VOLUNTEERS

INTERNSHIP WITH SLICEPAY

SEMINAR ON EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

PEER COUNSELLING

GOOGLE FORM FOR

VOLUNTEERS DATABASE CREATION FOR INTERNSHIP AND

RECRUITMENT

The Placement Cell “WINGS” of Lakshmibai College,

University of Delhi started its operations with generation

of google form for students of all three years. The

purpose of this form was to collect details of students

like, area of interest for internship, desired job profile,

special achievements, contact information, etc. This

information plays a vital role for the team to ascertain

the fields and the type of companies to invite suiting the

demand of the registered students. Around 120 students

registered themselves with the placement cell for

placement as well as internship.

Not only does the placement cell helps students to get

desired job and internships but also guides them to

choose the best alternative in the field of academics like,

going for masters.

INTERNSHIP WITH SLICEPAY SlicePay is a digital credit vault for college students

which helps them buyy products on monthly instalments

and pay over time. They can use SlicePay to recharge

their Paytm wallets using SlicePay credit and book

tickets, taxis, recharge and shop online.

An internship drive was organised for the students on

the 16th

of January, 2019. The drive began with an

orientation followed by personal interview.

SlicePay offered internship for marketing profile and

incentives provided by them included a certificate and

performance based stipend.

A total of 26 students registered for the internship

and 11 of them got selected with immediate

commencement of the internship.

IMPROVING EMPLOYABILITY

SKILLS FOR A BETTER

FUTURE SEMINAR

A one day seminar on Improving

Employability Skills for a better Future was

organised by the placement cell on 24th

January 2019. Purpose of the seminar was

to engage the students in the discussion

related to various career opportunities and

the skills necassary for a job.

Very soon the students will embark on a

new yet unknown trajectory where they

might find themselves baffled with

questions regarding career options and

opportunities. In today’s competitive and

globalised world, merely procuring

knowledge is not enough; one needs a

special set of skills to sail through the

challenging demands of time. Therefore, it

is necessary to evaluate one’s strength and

weakness both to achieve the goal in

professional life. This seminar is a humble

endeavour at providing a glimpse into all

these areas and to stipulate a platform for

the students where they get to observe,

learn and participate in various junctures

of Job opportunities –namely, Civil

Services and Competitive Exams; Teaching

and Research; Entrepreneurship/

Corporate Management; Journalism and

Media.

PURPOSE OF THE SEMINAR:

1. To develop an attitude of skill-building

amongst students To create awareness about

the ever-changing Job opportunities in India

and abroad.

2. To make them acquaint with “ peer-

counselling” as an effective strategy for

steppingd in the professional world.

3. To build confidence and prepare them for

various challenges like “stressmanagement,

team-building and leadership goals in

professional capacity. Above all, the seminar

aims at stimulating the young minds, and to

quote Swami Vivekananda

“Fear is a cage where you are locked up and

Faith is the key to freedom.”

The seminar was broadly classified into four

categories:

1. Civil services and other competitive

exams

Speaker: Dr. Arvind Singh

Dr. Arvind is affiliated with AFHQ, Civil Services,

and at present is Director in Defence Headquarters

Training Institute, Ministry of Defence. He holds

twenty years of experience in training and

administration in civil services. He has conducted

training programmes in organizations like Civil

Aviation, NIFM, HCL, Power Grid, Indian Army,

Indian Air Force, and D.U Teachers’ CPDHE. His

area of expertise includes Team Building,

Leadership, Emotional Intelligence; Values based

Management, Personal Effectiveness, Public

Speaking, Stress Management, Presentation Skill,

Creative Problem Solving, Self-renewal, Personality

and Effective Projection etc.

2. Teaching, training and research

Speaker: Dr. Amrita Shilpi

Dr Shilpi is affiliated with Lakshmibai College,

where she works as an Assistant Professor in the

Department of Political Science. She has more than

seven years of teaching experience to her credit.

Having done her higher studies from institutions

like B.H.U and J.N.U, she went on to procure

several fellowships and publications. Her

fellowships include UGC Junior Research Fellowship

and Doctoral Fellowship from International Food

Policy Research Institute, Washington. She is

currently working as a Co-project Director in ICSSR

funded Research Program on “Evolution and

Implication of article 370,” along with various other

research projects. She has been actively engaged

with the electronic media like television and radio

and worked as a voice over artist in BBC World

Service Trust, BBC Media Action India Limited, All

India Radio and even as a television anchor for

Doordarshan.

3. Entrepreneurship Skills

a. How To Become An Entreprenuer?

Speaker: Dr. S. Lakshmi Devi

Dr. Devi has been a former alumni of Miranda

House College wherefrom she had obtained a

Master’s degree in Botany and the founder

Principal of Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied

Science, University of Delhi. She is an educationist

and has worked ceaselessly for the upliftment of

women. In her time she had established EDP cells

in colleges and conduct Entrepreneurship

programs and has remained the Honorary Director

at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career

Oriented Programs at the University of Delhi. She is

further associated with organizations as such

Women’s Education World Wide and Women in

Public Service Project. She has a number of

publications in the relevant area as well to her

credit.

b. How To Become A Corporate Manager?

Speaker: Ms. Monica Gupta

Dr. Gupta has completed a degree of

Instrumentation in Applied Sciences and a

management degree from Jagan Institute of

Management Studies. She had started her career

with pharmaceutical company with the profile of a

sales and marketing professional. She had worked

with organisations like Microsoft and Canon in the

year 2000. Later she had worked with Wipro,

Honda, India TV and had led the digital division of

an advertising agency before finally moving on to

Entrepreneurship with ten years of experience. At

present, she is the Director of her Entrepreneurial

Brain-child “Interactive Bees” working with

managerial acumen and experienced insight.

4. Journalism and Media

Speaker: Dr. Manish Kumar

Having procuring his education from institutions

like Sainik School Tilaiya, Hazaribagh and

Doctorate degree in International Politics from JNU

, he went on to become the Editor and co-

ordinator for Chauthi Duniya, an e-paper. He had

been a part of Chauthi Duniya from 2008 till the

present time. Previously he had procured the

position of Senior Producer in Triveni Media

Limited and India TV and has the required

experience and excellence relevant in the field of

Media and Journalism.

PEER COUNSELLING

Main purpose of the seminar organized by

the placement cell is to make students

acquaint with "peer- counselling" as an

effective strategy for stepping on the

professional world. Peer counselors use a

set of unique tools to help others reach

their goals. Counselors practice active

listening by giving their complete

attention to what someone is saying, and

they respond without judgement.

Facilitative questioning is used to help

peers talk about feelings, explore issues

and find solutions.

Students interested for this counselling

have to give a minimum of eight hour

training to atleast 2 peer. The best

counselor will get the “Institutional

Social Responsibility Ambassador”

certificate.

OUR PRIDE We take immense pride in announcing our

recruiters and collaborations-

TATA POWER: 8 of our talented students got placed with

TATA POWER. 3 students from Philosophy(H),

3 from English(H), 1 from BA(P) and another

from Political Science(H).

TCS:

TCS conducted a Pan India online test in the

month of February, and 7 of our third year

students passed with flying colors and are

currently waiting for their joining letters.

EAT MY NEWS:

The registration for Eat My News(EMN) is

going on for an amazing and enriching

internship opportunity.

SLICEPAY:

SlicePay conducted an internship drive, 26

students applied for the same and 11 students

got selected for an internship.

INTERNSHALA:

The cell has collaborated with a huge online

internship portal, Internshala. All the

registered students will get an account where

they can look for some amazing courses, job

and internship opportunities awaiting.

FUTURE PLANS

VEDICA SCHOLAR PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN

JOB FAIR

JOB FAIR

“WINGS” is currently planning to organize a

job fair for third year students in the month of

March and for this we are currently contacting

suitable companies and recruitment agencies.

THE VEDICA SCHOLAR PROGRAMME FOR

WOMEN

The cell is planning to organise a session on

writing and communication skills for HR

interviews, public speaking and official

communication and to conduct an interactive

session on the importance of liberal arts

education in today's era in advancing career.