Recrufest’16: The Mega Job Expo in AMU
Aligarh: AMU organised a festival of recruitment under Recrufest’16 on 2nd & 3rd April 2016.The event was organised by Training and Placement Office (General) in collaboration with Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC). The event was mainly headed by Prof. M. Rizwan Khan, Director IQAC, Dr. S. Khurram Nisar (Joint Organising Secretary), Mr.Saad Hameed TPO, AMU(Co-ordinator& Mentor of Recrufest), Mohd Wasim Akram (Final yr. Civil Engg. student & Convenor )& Md. Mehraj Ali (Final yr. Civil Engg student &Team Leader).
RECRUFEST’16, an event for the placement of AMU students, provided them a platform of Job opportunities to take a step ahead in their career. This fest was an exposure with the companies at the national as well as at International level. Recrufest’16 became a huge success when approximately 1200 students participated in the programme and mostly got their placements.
The Inaugural Ceremony of Recrufest’16 held on 2nd April 2016 at Polytechnic Boys. Dr. Er. Talha, director, Marya Day Frozen Foods was present as the Chief Guest of this occasion. Mr. Sarwar Raza, Managing Partner of a Delhi Based Law firm – Legis Legal graced the occasion as Guest of Honour. The heads of the team, Prof. Rizwan and Mr. Saad Hameed facilitated the special guests and all the HRs of different companies with memento as a token of love and respect.
“In our days as a student of AMU, we were not privileged to have these kind of events or fests. We are happy to see these initiatives taken by AMU. I wish I too could have such event in my time, then it would have been much easier for us to grab better opportunities” said Mr. Sarwar while addressing to the audience.
Mr. Talha Chishti expressed his gratitude and affection for the university by saying “My blood is from AMU. I am honoured to be a part of this wonderful event. He also promised to provide all the necessary help and guidance to the students for their better future prospects. He thanked the University for inviting him to be the chief guest of the Event.
Prof. Rizwan Khan. Org Secretary, welcomed the Guests and the HRs participated in the Mega Job Expo.
Mr. Saad Hameed, TPO, AMU, and coordinator, Recrufest’16, speaking about the purpose of taking this initiative said, “The objective of this fest, Recrufest’16, is to provide maximum job opportunities for the students of AMU at large scale and to decrease the regional unemployment. Another purpose of this event is to promote AMU in the corporate world as well as in various other fields and open the doors for the students at an international level”.
Mr. Saad as the Coordinator of Recrufest’16 informed “The organizing team of Recrufest’16, headed by Prof Rizwan went to various halls of AMU to sensitize students about career opportunities in different fields and motivated the students for their participation”. He further added, “The students were made aware about the role of placements in different companies in their respective fields under the programme named ‘LET’S TALK CAREER’.
Dr. Khurram Nisar, joint org. Secretary, said “In every field of profession alumni of AMU acquired and continue to acquire commendable and well-reputed posts and they work extremely hard with full commitment to their jobs” while conducting the program.
Md. Mehraj Ali presented the Vote of thanks as the Team Leader of Recrufest’16 on behalf of the organizing team and whole students’ fraternity. He assured best placements to the students and thanked to women empowerment as there were 110 girls among 180 students.
Md. Mehraj Ali and Mohd. Wasim Akram spoke, “Since the students from non-technical fields have to face many difficulties for getting a job, this step is taken specially for them to grab and unleash the numbers of opportunities standing at their door”.
Companies from various sectors like IT, ITES, Banking, Finance, Manufacturing, Real estate, Education, Social Sector, Tourism, Law, etc. participated in the Mega Job Expo.
The Hrs responded very enthusiastically that in today’s era of Competitive world, a strong University- industry interface is very important. They were also of the opinion that events like these plays a very effective role to bring the corporates and prospective candidates at one single platform and these events are very important for the branding of the institution.
The students participated very energetically as they find this as an huge opportunity to come up with their talents and they find that this event changed the surrounding atmosphere of AMU into more career dedicated.
“It is a nice experience to attend this job fair. We learned many things that are required for the good jobs available” said Rifa Tarique an Engineer student.
Aiman Khan, a graduate student, expressed her views as “Recrufest’16 is my first experience and exposure to this kind of a huge platform presenting various jobs in so many companies”.
The head members, Prof. Rizwan Khan, Mr. Khurram Nisar and Mr. Saad Hameed with their main team members Mohd. Wasim Akram and Md. Mehraj Ali informed that this kind of job fairs will be conducted in future also at a bigger and more open platform with the increased number of companies taking participation”.