VIT University records 7,947 job offers after campus recruitment by five companies

COIMBATORE: VIT University, Vellore, on Wednesday announced that 7,947 job offers were made by five information technology and services companies that visited the institute for a shared campus recruitment. This is the highest number of jobs offered in one campus hiring.

Five companies — Cognizant Technology Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture, Infosys and Wipro — participated in the campus recruitment, held from September 1 to 15.

CTS hired 1,914 candidates, TCS 1,864, Accenture 1,472, Infosys 1,456 and Wipro 1,241 candidates during the drive, a press release from university on Tuesday said.

This is the first time in India, five companies are hiring more than 1,000 students each from a single institution. This is also the highest number of recruitments done by individual companies surpassing their own records — Cognizant- 1914 (previous highest – 1911 (VIT-2015 batch), TCS -1864 (previous highest – 1755 (elsewhere-2012 batch) and Infosys – 1456 (previous highest -1452 (VIT-2015 batch).

Cognizant hired the highest numbers (1914), which is again a national record in slot 1 placements.

VIT has entered the Limca Book of Records for highest number of placements four times so far. VIT will be again applying for Limca Book of Records for this year recruitment numbers.