Job Opportunity for Corporate Linkages ( IT / Non IT Placements ) at TNS India Foundation in Mumbai

The job of a Junior Program Specialist / Senior Program Specialist – Career Linkage will involve:

• Understanding students’ career needs through interactions
• Finding opportunities that match those needs on online and offline platforms and through personal networks
• Connecting with corporate recruiters, who recruit fresh graduates, in the IT/ITeS and allied sector, and managing relationships with them
• Preparing students to apply for selected job opportunities with feed forward information from the recruiters
• Arranging for events and connects between demand and supply to facilitate interviews and selection of candidates
• Collating data for interviews and selections and updating relevant dashboards
• Provide post – placement support & counselling to students w.r.t. joining and retention, if needed

Details

Team will work with corporates on one side and with students on the other. They will work within the challenging market ecosystem of IT/ITeS sector organizations in Bengaluru and Mumbai to understand job market requirements and how the skills of the students can be matched with demand to maximize confirmed offers (key success metric).

Providing pre-placement support, by creating awareness and relevant information about the market conditions and the updated pipeline of recruiter pipeline.

On the corporate side, the Jr/Sr Program Specialist will be accountable for building and managing relationships with potential recruiters and managing their expectations. Understanding corporates hiring requirements and ensuring that they provide placement opportunities for our trained students. To connect these potential recruiters with our trained students, the Jr / Sr Program Specialist will organize career events and fests online, at the program’s partner colleges and at other locations – as relevant. All logistical and other arrangements will need to be made for the same. It is the ownership of the career linkage team to ensure that a minimum of 70% of all trained students are placed through career fests, individual drives and self-placements.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of work experience for Sr Specialist role (min 4 years for Specialist) in placing students in technical (programming, coding, testing, software development, maintenance, product support, IT support, and similar) roles in the IT/ITeS sector, or in similar roles in allied sectors
• Demonstrated excellence in college, internships and extra-curricular work
• Top tier graduate and/or postgraduate degree (preferred)
• Ability to work in a diverse team and under pressure
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and Experience in relationship management with recruiters with be a definite plus.