Information Technology (IT) recruiters are back on campuses and colleges and students can finally afford to be choosy this time around.

The youngsters are euphoric to get jobs since campus recruitments started last week in engineering colleges in Bangalore even as they still have four months to go before they complete their BE courses. Colleges are hoping to place more than 80 per cent of their students this year.

Sandeep V Srivathsa said, "Companies like TCS, Infosys and Wipro are mass recruiters. So each and every college they are going, it is not that much difficult in getting a job right now."

Even in tier-2 colleges, where placements begin mid-January, personality training sessions are on, to gear up students to fight competition.

A job in hand and many more at the placement centre, the campus recruitment scene is so good this time that colleges can even afford to be choosy about the companies that are visiting and companies that went back on their job offers last year are not welcome.

Principal, AMC College of Engineering, Dr T N Srinivas said," We don't want to honour such companies to campuses particularly if they've not honoured joining dates of students of previous batches, We've unanimously taken a decision, not only ours, other colleges in and around city too."

However, pay packages have taken a hit though but the students are ready to go for any company even with lesser pay packages.

Freshers are still being offered about Rs 3 to 4 lakh per year on average, not so bad in the current scenario.

Source: IBNlive.com