Moodbidri, May 11 (Media Release) : Alva’s Education Foundation has yet again achieved another milestone today by organizing the 6th Mega Job fair Alva’s- Pragati 2013 at Alva’s college Moodbidri. The event started off with the registration of job aspirants who had come from different parts of the state. The companies that had registered for this job fair were from different sectors that included Mechanical, Civil, IT/ITES, BPO, Management, Sales and Retail, BFSI, Hospitals, Media, Medical and Para- Medical companies and many more.
The event was inaugurated by Sudhir Shetty, COO Global Operations, UAE Exchange and Mr Amarnath Shetty, Ex- MLA Karnataka. The function was presided by Dr M Mohan Alva, Chairman Alva’s Education Foundation.
Dr Mohan Alva welcomed the gathering and the dignitaries on the dais by addressing the gathering and giving them various career tips. He mentioned to the job aspirants that, this platform that Alva’s Education Foundation is providing is not only for its students but is an open stage for all job seeking students all over the state. He added saying that, such job fairs need to be organized by various other colleges who actually have the potential of doing such social welfare programs of huge social concern.
Sudhir Shetty, who addressed the gathering said, “It’s a global village scenario, everything has become quite close to us, transportation, media, communication has linked the world into one big family. Apart being technologically advanced all that we are lacking is character. A job seeker has to not only project his educational merits but need to have the right commitment, honesty and the best personality to get into these companies.” Job aspirants have various companies that are here in the campus to give them spot offers and all that they have to do is to attend those interviews with character and merits that would impress those companies, he added.
K. Amarnath Shetty who is also a well wisher of Alva’s Education Foundation, said that he has attended various programs organized by Alva’s Education Foundation in the past years, and these type of societal welfare programmes are actually very helpful to the growth of the institution and also amidst this recession crisis, Alva’s Pragati has managed to enroll 156 companies. It is a very great task which has been successfully undertaken by Alva’s team.
Dr Mohan Alva had clear vision when he said that these types of programs are done not for publicity sake or any other self beneficiary reason, but it is just for the students to get a very great career through our institution.
Vivek Alva, Managing trustee Alvas Education Foundation said that a record breaking of 10,363 students had participated and registered in this job fair on the first day itself. 156 companies had arrived at Vidyagiri campus in order to select these job aspirants with more than 7,000 openings. Some of the main companies that enrolled themselves today were Titan, Videocon, Fabtech, Aditya Birla group, UAE EXCHANGE, COCO-COLA, 24x7,SUTHERLAND , ITC, IBM, Fortis, L&T, Taj Group, ICICI Bank, TVS, Suzlon, Mphasis, TAFE, Axis Bank, Gold Finch, Xchanging, Aegis, Capgemini.
This Job fair is going to be continued tomorrow also wherein more companies are going to attend this mega event, He added.