IIT ‘Careers Week 2021’ attracts more than 500 students

Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) recently celebrated its 30-year journey of educational excellence and successfully conducted their first-ever IIT Careers Week 2021 on an online platform. This year the campus went a step further by extending the event across several days thereby providing the large number of IIT undergraduates and participating companies more time to interact with each other.

IIT Careers Week, which took place from 31st May to 8th June, witnessed the enthusiastic participation of 500+ students seeking industrial placement in the 3rd year of their degree programme at IIT. IIT has incorporated this one-year mandatory industry placement as a part of its 4-year degree programme curriculum at it helps to facilitate the skills and knowledge necessary for workplace compatibility thereby helping students transition seamlessly to corporate work environment upon graduation.

Over 80+ of Sri Lanka’s leading companies conducted online interactive discussions during the 9 days with each session comprising 100 to 200 students. Some of the leading companies that took part included MAS Active, MAS Twinery , MAS Linea Aqua, MAS Attune, IFS, Virtusa, WSO2, Dialog Ideamart, CodeGen International, hSenid Business Solutions, hSenid Mobile Solutions, 99x Technology, Zone 24/7 Aesturnum and represented a host of domains including, Game Design, Web Development, Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence.

As in previous years, IIT Careers Week was a platform for connecting IIT undergraduates with Sri Lanka’s leading ICT and non-ICT organisations, including local blue-chip and multinational companies. While presenting these organisations with the opportunity to meet and convince IIT graduates as to why they should join their organisation, it also provides the hundreds of IIT undergraduates with the chance to interact with these top companies, present themselves for interviews and secure their one-year internship. With the wide array of participating companies, IIT students are able to select the companies of their preference to commence their careers while it allows the companies to interview some of the best ICT and business graduates in the country and employ the candidates ideally-suited for their various job requirements in today’s fast-paced world.