LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY

Placement Policy
for students graduating in 2013
Released Date: February 2012

This document describes the provisions regarding the placement policy of the university. The policy is applicable only to the students who are graduating in year 2013 and shall have opted for placement assistance from the university.

Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU

Contents
Contents................................................................................................................. 2 Applicability............................................................................................................ 3 Salient Features of the Policy..................................................................................3 The Registration Process........................................................................................3 The Employability Enhancement Programme..........................................................5 I.The Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tests..............................................................5 Cycle through Cycle Transition of student...............................................................6 Disciplinary Code for students..............................................................................10 Code of Job Offers.................................................................................................11 Exceptions to the Policy........................................................................................11 Summary of Financial obligations.........................................................................12

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU

Applicability
This policy is applicable only to the students of batches passing-out in 2013 who shall opt for Placement Assistance from the university and commit to abide by the requirements thereof.

Salient Features of the Policy

The following are the salient features of the universitys Placement Policy: As per current recruitment trends, the recruitment activity starts early in pre-final semester. Thus, the students passing out in 2013 are required to gear up for being a part of placement related activities immediately at this stage. 1. In order to provide effective inputs to the students and groom their skills for placements, the university shall host several interventions for the students. The students passing out in 2013 seeking placement assistance from the university will have to attend special inputs/sessions including few sessions in vacations (summer and winter vacations) as well and take certain tests to evaluate their skills time-to-time. The students are required to ensure that they participate in all such interventions (even those which are held during their vacations). 2. The input sessions and grooming sessions will be held under the nomenclature of Employability Enhancement Programme (EEP) and the entire programme shall be divided into 5 stages referred to as cycles. 3. The attendance to these EEP sessions shall be mapped rigorously. 4. A series of tests shall be conducted during entire EEP that will count for progressive performance analysis of students. It shall be mandatory for a student to take these tests. 5. The university will bear the cost of Employability Enhancement Programmes without passing on the cost to the students. 6. For all purposes, the UMS will be used for announcements/notifications. Any announcement/notification made on UMS will be deemed to have been served on the students. The University may also use Email/SMS at times to convey information/interact with students/parents at its discretion.

The Registration Process

To opt for placement assistance from university, a student has to register himself/herself with Department of Placements (Division of Career Services, LPU) online, through UMS latest by stipulated date (18-Feb-2012).

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU The following steps shall be followed to complete the registration process: 1. Login to UMS with your registration number and password. 2. Navigate to LPU Placement Portal through UMS Navigation Placement Placement Registration. 3. Click on the Registration option in the webpages top panel strip. 4. Fill in your Personal details, Contact details, Qualification details andother details marked as mandatory in form. 5. Kindly ensure that the details entered in all fields are correct, particularly, the: a. Year of Passing-out (Passing Batch Year) b. Programme (Currently Pursuing) c. Contact Information (Mobile No. and Email ID) 6. Before submitting the form, student must carefully read Placement Policy to understand expectations of university from students and universitys offerings to students in name of Placement Services. a. To accept the provisions, the student must click on provided check box. 7. Click Submit to register. Upon successful registration online, the student shall receive an e-Mail/SMS stating his unique Placement ID. In case this confirmation e-Mail/SMS along with Placement ID is not received by the student, he/she must personally contact the Department of Placements.

The registration process is not yet complete. In order to complete the process, student must deposit the Placement Registration fee in accounts by stipulated date (28-Feb-2012). 8. After successful online registration, student must deposit a sum of Rs. 3,500 (which includes Rs. 2,000 as refundable security charges for the EEP and Rs. 1,500 as non-refundable fee for the Benchmarking and Diagnostic Tests) in accounts latest by 28-Feb-2012. Note: The students must retain their contact information (esp. Mobile No. and EMail ID) submitted during Placement Registration so that they do not miss out any important communications from the university or the prospective employers subsequently. They shall check their SMS and e-Mail inbox for

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU any new messages at least once a day, esp. during placement drives and related interventions. It is more evident that during trainings/vacations, the students may switch to some alternate contact numbers and may miss-out important communication regarding placements. It is advised that students shall not discontinue with their registered contact numbers and e-Mail IDs during and after Placement session i.e. at least up to December 2013. The university shall not be responsible for any such loss of communication arising out of incorrect contact details provided during placement registration or in cases as discussed above.

The Employability Enhancement Programme

In order to facilitate active placement support to the eligible students registered for placement assistance from the university, the Centre of Employability Enhancement Programme and the respective School-Departments, shall engage several special training sessions and evaluation sessions for students under name of Employability Enhancement Programme or EEP. 1. The EEP shall comprise of five cycles. The tentative schedule of EEP cycles is outlined in Table 1. 2. A student moves from one cycle to the next upon satisfying the criteria of successful completion of that cycle. Refer to Section VI for detail on successful completion and cycle through cycle transition of a student. 3. It is mandatory for every student registered for placement services to attend these EEP sessions and activities thereof. 4. The precise details of activities to be held and type of inputs to be delivered during each cycle shall be announced subsequently.

Table 1: Tentative schedule of EEP Cycles

Cycle # I II III IV V Scheduled during Spring Term of session 2011-2012 Summer Term of session 2011-2012 (20-Jul-2012 to 07-Aug-2012) Autumn Term of session 2012-2013 (Pre-MTE) Autumn Term of session 2012-2013 (Post-MTE) Spring Term of session 2012-2013

I.

The Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tests

With a view to map and profile every student who registers for placement services, the university shall conduct a series of tests and evaluations in-house or outsourced to third parties.

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU 1. The Diagnostic Test: This test is aimed at having a first-hand idea of the strengths and weaknesses of the students with respect to skills on which the recruiters test the students during selection process. This test shall be conducted early on at end of Cycle I of the EEP.

2. The Benchmarking Tests: These are the industry standard test conducted by representative bodies (third-party organizations) of different industries. The scores of these tests are recognized by and used by the recruiting companies during their recruitment processes (not just during campus placements but also otherwise if candidates directly approach the company) These tests shall be conducted tentatively during Cycle III of the EEP. Based on the results and ranking of student in these tests, better students shall be exposed to better companies as per criteria laid down by respective companies during their selection process. To name a few, tests like NACHTECH Test for IT/ITeS based companies, AMCAT for multidisciplinary evaluation, or any other such benchmarking tests can be organized for the respective students. It shall be mandatory for every student to take these tests respective to their stream/discipline.

3. Other Departmental or Continuous Evaluations: Apart from the diagnostic and benchmarking tests, every student is supposed to take several tests/evaluations conducted during or after each cycle of EEP. These evaluations/tests shall be used as one of the components constituting criteria to determine promotion of student through next cycle of EEP.

The fee of Rs. 1,500 is charged from students during the registration for conducting benchmarking and diagnostic tests. This is non-refundable fee. However, if the actual expenditure incurred (per student) for conducting these tests is below Rs. 1,500 then the excess shall be refunded back to students subsequently. Alternatively, if the actual expenditure incurred (per student) for conducting these test is above Rs. 1,500 then it shall be received from student or adjusted from the security amount (Rs. 2,000) deposited by the student.

Cycle through Cycle Transition of student

As can be noted in Table 1, various cycles of EEP are mutually exclusive over schedule. A student shall be allowed to move to next cycle if and only if he/she successfully clears the current cycle.

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU 1. Successful completion of a cycle: A student is said to successfully complete/clear a cycle provided he/she satisfies each of the following criteria.

a. Attendance: A student needs to secure a cumulative attendance of 90% taking into consideration all types of activities conducted for the student in respective (current) cycle. A relaxation of 10% in this criteria is offered to student in terms of medical allowance, thereby, requiring a student to secure at least 80% attendance in current cycle so as to progress to next cycle.

b. Qualifying Score: A student has to score satisfactory grades pertaining to various tests (and evaluations) conducted during or at end of current cycle. The tests may be conducted internally by LPU or may be outsourced to third parties. The detailed criteria of cycle wise qualifying score is stated in Table 2.

In the table: Test-I score shall represent cumulative score of student in tests/evaluations conducted during and/or at end of Cycle-I. Test-II score shall represent cumulative score of student in tests/evaluations conducted during and/or at end of Cycle-II. Test-III score shall represent cumulative score of student in the benchmarking tests/evaluations conducted during or at end of Cycle-III. Test-IV score shall represent cumulative score of student in tests/evaluations conducted during and/or at end of Cycle-IV. The bare minimum score for respective tests shall be announced subsequently.

Table 2: Qualifying Score criteria of Tests

Sr . 1 2 Test Name/Source Test-I (Departmental) Test-II (Departmental) Tests during/after Cycle-I Cycle-II Qualifying Score Criteria Score prescribed bare minimum marks in Test-I Score prescribed bare minimum marks in Test-II

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU 3 Test-III (Benchmarking Test Cycle-III BT; may be outsourced) Score prescribed minimum marks cumulative of: Test-I (10% weightage) + Test-II (30% weightage) + Test-III (BT) (60% weightage) Subject to CGPA 5 or above Score prescribed bare minimum marks in TestIV

Test-IV

Cycle-IV

c. Behavioural Norms: A student must conform to norms of behaviour, dress code, attitude and ethics throughout the EEP (and not just until the time he is placed) and afterwards.

d. Other Parameters: A student must conform to any other parameters or conditions or such part of the policy which may be notified and/or modified later.

2. The cycle through cycle transition: The following series of tables (Tables 3 through 6) chart the cycle-through-cycle transition of a student on the basis of Attendance and Qualifying Score in tests/evaluations conducted during/after respective cycles, provided that the student fulfils of criteria mentioned in VIII.1.c and VIII.1.d above.

Table 3: Cycle I to Cycle II transition

Cycle-I Attendance Criteria Fulfilled Cycle-I Qualifying Score Criteria Fulfilled Preliminary Status for Cycle-II Eligible for Cycle-II Can re-register paying a fee of Rs. 1,000 Can re-register paying a fee of Rs. 1,000 Can re-register paying a fee of Did student Re-register? Not Applicable Yes No Yes No Yes Final Status for Cycle-II Eligible for Cycle-II Eligible for Cycle-II Debarred Eligible for Cycle-II Debarred Eligible for Cycle-II

Fulfilled

Not Fulfilled

Not Fulfilled Not Fulfilled

Fulfilled Not Fulfilled

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU Rs. 2,000 No Debarred

Table 4: Cycle II to Cycle III transition

Cycle-II Attendance Criteria Fulfilled Cycle-II Qualifying Score Criteria Fulfilled Preliminary Status for Cycle-III Eligible for Cycle-III Can re-register paying a fee of Rs. 1,000 Did student Re-register? Not Applicable Yes No Debarred Debarred Final Status for Cycle-III Eligible for Cycle-III Eligible for Cycle-III Debarred

Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Not Fulfilled

Not Fulfilled Fulfilled Not Fulfilled

Table 5: Cycle III to Cycle IV transition

Cycle-III Attendance Criteria Fulfilled Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Cycle-III Qualifying Score Criteria Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Preliminary Status for Cycle-IV Eligible for Cycle-IV Did student Re-register? Not Applicable Debarred Debarred Debarred Final Status for Cycle-IV Eligible for Cycle-IV

Table 6: Cycle IV to Cycle V transition

Cycle-IV Attendance Criteria Fulfilled Fulfilled Cycle-IV Qualifying Score Criteria Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Preliminary Status for Cycle-V Eligible for Cycle-V

Did student Re-register? Not Applicable Debarred

Final Status for Cycle-V Eligible for Cycle-V

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU Not Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Fulfilled Not Fulfilled Debarred Debarred

3. Important note in context of Debarment and Re-registration: a. A student may be debarred during any of the cycles (I through V) on the grounds of violation of criteria as mentioned in VIII.1.c and VIII.1.dabove. b. If a preliminary or final status of a student for any given cycle is declared to be DEBARRED, the student loses chances of reregistration. Such students cannot even participate in any of the subsequent placement-related activities and recruitment drives. c. If preliminary status of a student allows him/her to re-register with some fee, then student shall not be allowed to participate in any placement-activities or drives until he re-registers. If a student does not re-register for next cycle within stipulated time frame (as notified through UMS), it shall be assumed that student is no longer interested to seek placement assistance from the university and shall be permanently debarred. d. In order to re-register for next cycle (as applicable), the student shall submit the following by the dates announced through UMS: Deposit the requisite fee (Rs. 1,000 or Rs. 2,000) in accounts and furnish a copy of the receipt of same to the Department of Placements. Submit an undertaking signed by his parent. The format of undertaking shall be provided later. e. The amount submitted as fee for re-registration is NOT refundable. f. The security amount submitted during initial registration shall be refunded only to those students, who successfully clear the Cycle-V (irrespective of whether they had to re-register after any cycle or not).

Disciplinary Code for students

This will be announced at appropriate time later in pre final semester.

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU

Code of Job Offers

The policy for job offers and instructions regarding actual placement process and/or any modification/deletion/change/addition etc. in the policy will be notified later at appropriate time aligned with other critical timelines.

Exceptions to the Policy

Following are some exceptions to the above-mentioned provisions in this policy: 1. Attendance in EEP Cycles during Trainings: Any student who is on training (as approved by the university) during any of the attendance cycles will be required to attend mandatory sessions immediately after his return or if called by the university earlier on curtailment of training or after viva etc. He/she would, however, be required to take part in all such interventions/tests which are made available to students online or on UMS.

2. Attendance in EEP during Examinations: In so far as possible, no EEP session would be organized during regular exams. However, in case some EEP session and a backlog/reappear exam date clashes, then exemption from EEP session will be given on specific request in advance.

3. Exemption from EEP during Recruitment Drives: Exemption from EEP sessions may also be considered in case sessions clash with any recruitment drive facilitated by the university.

4. EEP sessions for non-registered students: The University recognizes the fact that there may be few students who are not interested in placements. Such students may also take part in EEP sessions by registering in the same way. However, they will be required to pay Rs. 2,000 per cycle in order to avail these sessions which are otherwise free for students registered for placement assistance from university.

5. Duty Leaves for Off-campus drives: The duty leaves for participating in any off-campus placement drives that are facilitated/represented/recognized by LPU shall be given to students.

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU The duty leaves may not be granted to students for participating in other off-campus placement drives or job fairs not recognized/recommended by LPU.

6. Re-entry of a debarred student into EEP: A student debarred from placement assistance from university on the basis of not fulfilling Qualifying Score criteria after Cycle III (i.e. not achieving stipulated score in benchmark test) may be given an option to retake the test for improvement. If the student fulfils the qualifying score criteria in improvement test, he/she shall be eligible to re-register for EEP.

Summary of Financial obligations

As can be observed from Table 7 below, the university is likely to spend about more than Rs. 10,000 per student in enhancing their employability. Other than diagnostic and benchmarking tests costing Rs. 1,500 no cost has been passed on to the students. The element of recovery/forfeiture has been included to ensure element of seriousness and for the sake of constructive participation.

Table 7: Approximate Financial obligations of students and the LPU

Event Cost Involved Cost to be borne by Forfeiture/Recovery Clause EEP Sessions Rs. 4,000 per student per year LPU (No cost to student) In case a student is debarred due to reasons stated earlier, security amount of Rs. 2,000 shall be forfeited. Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tests Rs. 1,500 per student Student In case a student is registered for the test but fails to take the test on stipulated dates.

Important:

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Department of Placements Division of Career Services, LPU The university may modify/delete any of the existing provisions or add new provisions at any time.

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