CHENNAI: A
job fair
targeting those who had passed Class X on Saturday attracted candidates with many more strings to their bow. Of the 876 candidates who registered at the event, hoping to take up jobs as BPO executives, salesmen and receptionists, 110 possessed BE/BTech degrees while a couple had completed MPhil.
“We did not expect such overqualified graduates to come for these jobs. We expected only diploma holders or school passouts to come for semi-skilled positions,” said BA Selvam, mobiliser,
Don Bosco Valikaatti
, a placement and training agency that organised the day-long fair. For salaries ranging between `10,000 and `15,000, candidates from core disciplines like IT, mechanical and electrical engineering come from Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts.
TOI had recently reported an Aspiring Minds study which found
Tamil Nadu had the fourth largest number of job vacancies in the country across all sectors. The state also ranked third in the number of job vacancies in the IT sector.
Despite this, it has been a struggle for many candidates to land offers from core engineering companies.
Alphonsa Sindhu
, placement coordinator for Don Bosco, says this is because most core company vacancies are now being rerouted through other channels.