Rourkela: Asmita Chihnara, a B.Tech. final year student of Computer Science and Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Rourkela has received a job offer of 40.63 Lakhs per annum from Adobe System India Private Limited. In this matter, Asmita says, ‘’There is no substitute to hard work and dedication. Self-belief and consistency will always earn you success. For me, the challenge will start after joining the job. All it happened because of the blessings of my parents and God. I would like to thank my teachers for their support and encouragement. I’m really thankful to NIT Rourkela’’ .

Training and Placement Centre of NIT Rourkela has been untiringly coordinating with several organizations to provide quality placement to the graduates, postgraduates, and doctorates. A total of 237 recruitment drives from 212 different companies were handled for full-time employment.

Also, 43 Ph.D. students got jobs through campus which is the highest so far. A total of 1016 job offers were received in the campus placement drive, out of which 777 were for boys and 239 for girls. The Head of Training and Placement Cell of NIT Rourkela Prof. Saroj Kumar Patel says, ‘’ We are trying very hard to achieve a hundred percent placement record. We believe in the all-round development of the students. Before the beginning of placement season, we organize personality development workshops, communication skill training programmes etc. I hope in future we should be able to attract more and more companies from India and abroad’’. In the year 2017-18, there was an increase of 53% in job offers compared to that of the year 2016-17. In the last academic year, major PSUs like HPCL, BPCL, IOCL, and EIL participated in the campus recruitment process. Software companies like Adobe, Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Oracle, Qualcomm, SAP Labs, and Teradata came for placement drive. Numerous core companies like Tata Steel, Exxon Mobile, St. Gobain etc. participated in the placement process. NIT Rourkela has been attracting major automobile companies and the past year was no exception with the likes of Tata Motors, Hero Moto Corp, Maruti Suzuki, and Bajaj Auto.