Does a year back affect one's placements in engineering?

This is a very frequently asked question. I will tell you how placements work. Let there be a company and let’s name it "Orange". Your PC (Placement Coordinator) approaches this company and invites them for a placement drive at your college. Orange will then confirm by giving their shortlisting criteria. Now in reality, mostly this criteria contains the following: 1. Student must have no back/cleared backs at the time of interview. 2. Student must have more the 80% aggregate in all semesters at the time of interview. 3. Student must be well read about all the company profile. 4. Student must possess good logical and analytical abilities. and so on. Now, your placement coordinator can negotiate with the company for following: 1. The student will have no more than one back in core subjects that he/she will clear by the time of joining. 2. Instead of the 80% criteria, the shortlist will contain the names of the top 20 unplaced students of the batch based on our one placement policy. All resumes will be sent to you for approval. and so on. Based on how much Orange trusts your PC and what is the image/ranking of your college in the market, the company will agree to some of these negotiations and will present some of its own. Most of the time, the companies do not prefer students with uncleared backs, so I would advise you to avoid getting any or clear all before interviews. After this shortlist, Orange will take Written tests (Core subject/Logical Reasoning/Communication Skills/Psychometric Test) based on its policies followed by interviews (Technical and HR). Based on all of this you get a job. So, the conclusion is, avoid getting backs or clear them before interviews. If you can’t by any reason, ask your placement coordinator to negotiate skillfully with the company. Once you reach the interview, you can explain why you have a back. Prepare a good explanation for them. If you have a convincing argument to present, they will certainly listen and consider your point. If you are a strong candidate, they will listen to you and trust you to clear the back by the joining date. All the best.

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I will tell you how placements work. Let there be a company and lets name it "Orange". Your PC (Placement Coordinator) approaches this company and invites them for a placement drive at your college. Orange will then confirm by giving their shortlisting criteria. Now in reality, mostly this criteria contains the following: 1. Student must have no back/cleared backs at the time of interview. 2. Student must have more the 80% aggregate in all semesters at the time of interview. 3. Student must be well read about all the company profile. 4. Student must possess good logical and analytical abilities. And so on. Now, your placement coordinator can negotiate with the company for following: 1. The student will have no more than one back in core subjects that he/she will clear by the time of joining. 2. Instead of the 80% criteria, the shortlist will contain the names of the top 20 unplaced students of the batch based on our one placement policy. All resumes will be sent to you for approval. And so on. Based on how much Orange trusts your PC and what is the image/ranking of your college in the market, the company will agree to some of these negotiations and will present some of its own. Most of the time, the companies do not prefer students with uncleared backs, so I would advise you to avoid getting any or clear all before interviews. After this shortlist, Orange will take Written tests (Core subject/Logical Reasoning/Communication Skills/Psychometric Test) based on its policies followed by interviews (Technical and HR). Based on all of this you get a job.

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A year's backdrop is generally considered red flag for recruiter but can be nullified if some great achievement is demonstrated like Internship experience, Certificate programmes in technical skills to showcase practical knowledge, technical projects conducted via college, extra curriculum indulging position of responsibility. Your social media profile with all these skills may help you make your year drop redundant. Any recruiter would just not hire a student on his academic performance but also his personality and his technical domain knowledge. Your resume if highlights your core skills and makes you stand apart from the crowd, your year deop would hardly have any significant impact on placements. End of the day how you perform in an interview and how well versed you're with sound abreast concepts will determine your success. PS:- Some recruiters may not allow sitting as per their eligibility criteria but that doesn't deter your chances as many companies look for overall growth like Convonix which hires only on personal skills.

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Generally speaking, it will affect the placement. Many companies have it in eligibility criteria that one shouldn't have any backlogs/arrears. But there are some companies which don't have any such criteria, but these won't be as good as the other companies (they might be in some cases). But a backlog won't affect that much if you give some genuine reason like health issues or some family emergencies. You should be able to justify your backlogs during the interviews and shouldn't be viewed as a non-serious person. I would suggest avoiding backlogs as much as possible as it surely does have a negative impact on your resume. Just study regularly and all will be fine.

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Yes it does effect the placement in engineering. Many good conpanies have the criteria of no backlog and a minimum percentage . So a year back effects. But if you are looking for mass recruiters , then that won't affect your short listing

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By "year back", if you mean, you have one or more subjects to clear, then that won't matter much to few companies. Don't come to a conclusion yet. You'll have to clear the subject(s) before joining the firm/government department. Few companies do look at Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) as one of their shortlisting criteria. For such companies, you cannot attend the interviews, to be honest, but few companies do visit and select the students based on a written test, group discussion and interview. If you perform well in these categories, they do select you, given that you clear the subject before you join the firm. In the context of letting you know the importance of clearing the subjects, I'll tell you a true incident my friend had to face in his life. He was an average student throughout his career, but he couldn't clear his fluid mechanic's paper in his engineering curriculum not even in his third attempt. By the time he completed his graduation, he had all subjects clear but not fluid mechanics. He also attempted a government exam and cleared the paper, but he could not proceed further because he had his subject to clear. In the other context, if you wish to pursue post-graduation, few universities/institutes allow you to join the post graduation course and clear it before the first year of post-graduation. The institute I did my post-graduation had this option and I have few friends who cleared graduation subjects while studying post-graduation. So, don't limit yourself to one option, that is placements. Try to explore other options like post-graduation in case you have a subject to clear and the institute (post-grad) has the option as mentioned above. All the best.

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