NIFT Patna placement cell helps the students become better professionals. It prepares the students to face the challenges post completion of college and be able to handle the industry-level competition. The placement cell aims at providing 100% placement assistance and ensures that the students get placed through campus in the easiest way.
At NIFT Patna, the motivated and dynamic students are mentored and supported to turn challenges into opportunities in the fashion and apparel industry. The placement cell is dedicated to working for the students and makes it possible for students to build their acquired skills in the fashion business spanning art, craft, technology, strategy, etc., that will make them adapt and grow in the fashion industry.
The graduates of the National Institute of Fashion Technology have been given a cutting-edge understanding of the industry through exposure to emerging challenges, developments, techniques, technology, and practice from across countries. During their course duration at NIFT, the students undergo a metamorphosis for discovering their potential and stimulating intellectual growth inclined toward the industry. Their latent potential is honed by committed and skilled faculty drawn from academia and industry itself.
The company or organization is required to register for NIFT Campus Placements 2022 by visiting their official website. The company will then need to register for the first time with details of the company like name of the company, company logo, Website, Nature of Business, and Annual Turnover, including all contact information. Any company that has registered before in previous years will have a valid user ID and a password and need not register again. New members will be provided credentials of a user ID and a password which will be sent to the mail ID as provided by the company in the NIFT registration form. The company then has to login using the user ID and password to fill the Job Announcement Form (JAF) online on CMS or upload a scanned copy of the filled JAF downloaded from CMS. The JAF has certain data which will be visible to all students who are interested in and eligible for appearing in campus placement. The demarcation of data is clearly indicated in the JAF. Registered NIFT Patna recruiters shall be allocated a date and time for online/offline placements. Registered companies shall be granted access to the student database for shortlisting before attending the campus.
The companies that will be coming for the campus placements will match the eligibility criteria for registering to recruit through NIFT Campus Placement. A company registered under the Companies Act of 1956/2013, a multinational company, or a global firm having or not having its operations in India, conducting business in the fashion or any allied sector dealing with design, manufacturing, or distribution.
The National Institute of Fashion Technology has a reputation for generating some of the top talents in the industry. There are many reasonable offers that are received at the college, which makes the students of NIFT exposed to the real industry. All the branches of NIFT not only teach students the niche of the Apparel and Fashion segment but also make them capable of creating their own fashion lines.
The placements happen under the following segments.
On the basis of Product Group:
Garment & other sewn products | Textiles |
Accessories | Lifestyle Products Services |
On the basis of Firms
Artists | Designers |
NGOs | Export Organizations |
Domestic Retail and Manufacturing Organizations | Multinational Retail Organizations |
Media/Advertising/Publication Houses | Buying Houses & Buying Agents |
Business Consultancies | Start ups |
The placement process of NIFT college is to provide a platform for the students who are graduating from various streams of the two years post-graduate and four years undergraduate programs to realize their professional dreams plus ambitions and thus requires keen and sustained participation of employer organizations.
NIFT graduates carry the energy, creativity, skill, technical knowledge, and the legacy of their predecessors to join as invaluable assets to the organizations that they are absorbed into. The placement assistance at NIFT Patna aids campus recruitment by providing a common platform for job seekers and job givers to find each other. It welcomes organizations from many industries to participate in the placement process.
The NIFT placement process cell not only assists students in finding jobs in relevant industries but also assists students in career planning and final placement preparation by exposing them to the industry in the most realistic way possible.
NIFT is known to carry the legacy of having alumni who have done well in the industry to help students.
Some of the ways in which the NIFT, Patna placement process works for the students are
> The new curriculum introduced by NIFT attempts to give the student a rich experience and understanding that will teach a desire and a capability for lifelong learning and will stand students in good stead no matter how times change.
> Industry engagement is seen as a learning process which, by providing exposure to the students in a real life working environment as part of an academic curriculum helps them to develop and enhance academic, personal and professional competencies teamed with a deeper and stronger understanding of the morals and values that creates a good professional that adds value to the industry.
> A major part of the engagement program is based on regulated exposure of the students to the industry environment as part of the NIFT course curriculum under the guidance of both academics and the industry.
> The revised curriculum structure of NIFT arrived through deliberations, workshops, and interactions involving internal experts and faculty, industrialists, and NIFT alumni to predict the necessity and importance of Industry engagement through
> Interaction with Industry leaders and alumni in the classroom
> Sponsored classroom projects
> Industry visits
> Exposure to exhibitions and fairs
> Internships
> Joint research endeavors
> Hands-on practical learning experience in the industry
> Pantaloon
> Future Group
> Lifestyle Group
> Max Retail
> Incredible Technologies
> Marie Claire
> Reliance Trends
> Shoppers Stop
> Marks & Spencers
As a part of being able to work and study together, NIFT provided pre-placement offers to students via companies that come and visit the college for placements.
Companies that absorb students in PPOs extend a job offer to students before the NIFT campus placement. Acceptance of the offer is considered a job placement. In order to provide a fair opportunity to all, such students are not allowed to participate in the campus placement. These offers may be made based on internships or training, or projects taken up by the students in the selected company.
There is a dedicated unit that is headed by top faculty where alumni get together and help the students out in placements in their capacities.
The name of the unit is Industry and Alumni Affairs. This unit is headed by Prof. Dr. Jonalee D. Bajpai, Mr. Jayant Kumar, and Ms. Renjini G.
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