GITAM - Director - Career Guidance Centre

About Us :

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, popularly known as GITAM was founded in 1980 by an inspired group of eminent intellectuals and industrialists of Andhra Pradesh led by Dr M.V.V.S. Murthi, former Member of Parliament and popular philanthropist.

The vision of MAHATMA, the Father of the Nation was to see India as a socially and economically resurgent country and he looked upon education as an important means to achieve this goal. Gandhis view of education was not narrow or sectarian. He envisages universities as institutions of higher learning that transcend all linguistic, racial and other barriers. GITAM is committed to imbibe his values and abide by his philosophy.

Why is on a mission to create a progressive, world-class institution of higher education in India, aspiring to be a Global 100 university by 2040. We envision educating the youth of India with exceptional promise for a lifetime of leadership and contribution to society.

At GITAM, we wish to offer holistic education consisting of both the knowledge and skills required to solve the 21st Century problems. The aim is to offer the Ivy League-level of training in India. We are looking for highly driven individuals who share our values and are ready to be partners in this journey with a commitment to excel and contribute in their respective (GITAM Career Guidance Center) is a strategic initiative aimed at guiding, training and assisting students with the best career opportunities. To execute this mission GCGC operates across three major verticals, viz., Career Counselling & Mentoring (CCM), Training & Competency Development, and Career and person will be leading a team whose primary responsibility is to ensure quality student outcomes of GITAM Visakhapatnam campus, by engaging with various stakeholders, viz., other teams of GCGC, Academicians, Students, Corporate and other support services at GITAM. The following are areas which are in the purview of this role :

• Orienting the students towards a clear career goal
• Constant engagement with the students and academicians to apprise them on the expectation of the industry and student preparedness
• Implementation of directives received from GCGC
• Conducting external assessments to analyse the student potential
• Ensuring smooth conduct of trainings
• Overseeing the conduct of sessions on employability skills
• Sharing information with students, mentors and academicians.
• Smooth conduct of campus drives, from job posting to onboarding
• Ensuring support to the recruiter during the campus drives
• Support & guidance for alternate career services
• Database management of the student outcomes of all the schools in the campus
• Periodic reporting of data and information, as and when required, to IQAC, GCGC, GITAM Leadership, etc.
• Collaborate effectively with team members from other campuses to ensure smooth operations.

Key Preference will be given to those with prior experience in handling students career outcomes, campus placement drives, education field. Strong networking, communication & interpersonal skills is highly and Experience :

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