NUST Career Development & Placements
Annual Report 2018
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t is an initiative to give a comprehensive overview of the macro and micro level analysis of the efforts done in preparing students for the relevant job markets, and the analysis of placement details of the graduating class, to the industry partners, potential recruiters and students. With an objective of making NUSTians a premium choice for employment at the premium companies, both at home and abroad, we give special focus on their mentoring and grooming throughout their stay at NUST followed by intimate engagement with the potential employers. For this purpose, our Career Development Centre (CDC) runs employability skill development programmes to keep NUST students abreast with the job market while our Placement office remains committed to the employers offering employment opportunities for NUSTians. The CDC is dedicated to designing custom-made career programmes to address career gaps of students based on job trend analysis and latest employability skills research reports. In addition, we provide 100% yearly internships to all students during first three years of undergrad, according to students’ demographic distribution, field of study and area of interest. Armed with the latest employability skills and yearly internships, our graduates get employed immediately after graduation. We have achieved 93% employment rate as per QS ranking criteria, which has ranked NUST at 369 in its employability ranking across the world. But more importantly, it is the feedback that I receive from the employers on NUSTians who are simply described as the best-fit!! We have an intimate Alumni network that also supports us in placement of our graduates. I am grateful to them for their continued support. Adopting an open policy, we always welcome corporate partnerships for recruitment and other domains. Our placement office looks forward to joining hands with new employers and strengthening long term mutually beneficial corporate relationship. I can assure the employers that they can trust NUSTians for professional excellence, dedication and commitment. Lt Gen Naweed Zaman, HI (M), (Retd)
Rector’s Message
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Head of Career Development Centre (CDC)
Head of Placements – NUST Placement Office (NPO)
I have had the privilege to pioneer NUST Career Development Centre (CDC) from its foundation in 2003 to its excellence today. Our mission is to provide career education, professional development services, and career related events designed to assist students and alumni to enter and sustain careers in a global job market. To that end, CDC provides a host of programmes/services to help students discover their skills and career passions. In addition, we help students acquire requisite skills to compete in the marketplace through career modules, networking events, class presentations, curriculum up-gradation and co-curricular activities such as one-on-one counseling and focused group activities. Today, it is imperative that we join hands with business and industry, with our students, with educators on all levels, and with community leaders, if we plan to equip a workforce capable of meeting needs that our business and industry partners are focusing on hiring. The Career Centre at NUST has aligned all their programmes with Employability Skill development so that the skills gap is minimised and more students are leaving our university with the skills, business and industry need to not only survive but also thrive.
NUST Placement Office aims to facilitate NUST students and graduates in securing placements in the industries matching their specialisation. In order to ensure the best practices to secure maximum placement opportunities for our grads at the top recruiting companies, we are actively and aggressively working jointly with industry in enhancing placements of NUST students as well as graduates in the market. For yearly summer internship placements, mandatory at NUST for all the UG programmes over first 3 years, we have an extensive outreach with the industries enabling us to provide internships to our students that suit their discipline and is close to their hometown. These internships provide our students the much needed exposure to the targeted job markets and potential recruiters. Similarly, for job placements, NUST Placement Office conducts the largest number of on-campus recruitment drives for our industry partners, and arranges a number of industry sessions and alumni talk series to ensure maximum placement opportunities for our students and graduates. As NUST is a comprehensive University, we carefully select the industries in our outreach programme, engaging the right industry for each academic discipline thus offering the right man for the right job. With the special focus on the all-round grooming of and soft skills development among the students, we are proud to offer the best talent pool every year to the top recruiting companies, which is why, most of the companies prefer hiring NUSTians over other available resources.
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Career Development at a Glance CDC focuses on the capacity building of students through skill development essential for the Job Market in his/her field of study. To achieve this end, the model of Career Development has been custom designed to meet NUST graduates’ needs and the programmes developed are unique as they help bridge employability-skill gaps identified by NUST Placement Office through Employer Surveys.
Our Career Development Services • • • • • • •
Career guidance & soft skills development workshops for all School/ Colleges of NUST. Career Development Plan workshop for 1st year students. Professional Employability Skills Development Workshop for 2nd Year students Resume writing workshop for 3rd year students. Interviewing Skills Technique workshop for 4th year (7th semester) students Focused Group Discussion (FGD) One-on-One Counseling sessions
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One-on-One Career Services • One –o- one counseling services for NUST students to • •
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encourage them to explore their careers and achieve their educational goals and employability skills Focused group activities to engage students in mock interview sessions Employee and alumni engagement/motivational talks on career
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Career Development Cutting-Edge Trainings NUST Career Life Skills Excellence Programme (NCLSEP)
The programme comprises 4 thematic workshops offered twice to students from 1st to 7th Semester as a stepwise progressive career development process to achieve independence in career decision making. The modules of the programme are as follows: »» Career Development Plan »» Professional Employability Skills Development »» Resume’ Critique Workshop »» Interviewing Techniques
Career Development Workshop
The CDP focuses on developing career direction for its new entrants .The workshop enables their career decision making by providing career Tool Box to be utilised during their graduate study programme and also initiate networking for a progressive career.
Professional Employability Skills Development
This workshop will equip students with latest Job Market Employability Skills based on our industrial partners feedback accompanied by Skill knowledge of their specific field that will lead to a progressive career alignment process. The students will be also introduced to Career Interest tests and encouraged to use tools to aid with their career development.
Resume` Critique Workshop
This workshop is designed to teach the latest Resume` critique techniques to students for acquiring top job slots of their choice. Students are trained to write their resume and learn to develop them followed by review from the trainer on their finalised profile developed.
Interviewing Techniques
This workshop is designed to train graduates to ace interviews and join organisations of their interest. The techniques are practiced and tested through their communication skills faculty which enables NUST students to be prepared for the Job Industry.
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YEAR • Choosing Career path Workshop • Technical Internship
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Career Development & Placements Ecosystem
YEAR • Career Development Workshop • Community Service Internship
YEAR • Resume Writing Workshop • Technical Internship • Industry Sessions
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YEAR • Interview Techniques workshop • Recruitment Drives • Industry Sessions
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Matching Skill-set with Placement Opportunities The NPO team directs its efforts for the placements of the graduating class and helps them explore progressive careers of their choice, as well as assists sophomores and junior year students to secure internships. For the aforementioned purpose, we organise the NUST Annual Career Fair to connect our recruiting partners with our students. We facilitate our recruiting partners in arranging their on campus recruitment activities that include recruitment and internship drives, assessment centers, focus groups and interview – essential activities that help them hire high potential recruits. We organise a series of development and grooming sessions, mock assessments and interviews, inviting experienced professionals for skilled grooming of our students in line with the existing job market scenario. These grooming activities enhance students’ professional skills, which include professional behaviour, résumé writing, interview skills, personal branding, and employability. Our recruiting partners recognise the talent in our students and appreciate their immaculate analytical and advanced skill set.
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School-wise Placement Statistics 100% 88% 82%
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Discipline-wise Placement Statistics 100% 91%
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ASAB
Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences
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100%
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Aerospace Engineering
Avionics Engineering
CAE
College of Aeronautical Engineering
Placed on Jobs
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Looking for Jobs
78% 68% 65%
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Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics Engineering
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College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
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MCE Placed on Jobs
Military College of Engineering
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Telecom Engineering
Computer Software Engineering
MCS Military College of Signals 13
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NBS Placed on Jobs
80%
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NUST Business School
Placed for Higher Studies
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78%
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I&ME
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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BS Public Administration
S3H
BS Mass Communication
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Chemical Engineering
Material Engineering
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27%
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Civil Engineering
69%
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SCEE
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Placed on Jobs
Placed for Higher Studies
Looking for Jobs
100%
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Computer Sciences
Software Engineering
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Electrical Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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88%
13%
87%
13%
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SADA
School of Art, Design & Architecture
Placed on Jobs
60%
Placed for Higher Studies
Looking for Jobs
15% 57%
28%
28%
57%
15%
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Placed on Jobs
Placed for Higher Studies
Looking for Jobs
SMME
School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
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Recruitment Events With ever-increasing competition prevalent in the job market, leading companies prefer on-campus recruitments to meet their human resource requirements as it provides a platform to pick the best candidates across different job profiles. The activity serves both the students and the recruiters as a one-stop shop and saves cost and time for both. Top-notch international and national organisations / companies from various sectors visit NUST each year during the semester to hire what is recognised as the premium talent of Pakistan. During recruitment drives, companies discuss their recruitment process with prospective graduates, conduct written and online tests, run assessment centers, and hold interviews for entry-level positions, management trainee programmes as well as executive level positions.
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P&G Recruitment Drive P&G Recruitment Drive was conducted at Exam hall followed by the Recruitment Test. The session was attended by 3rd year students of all UG disciplines.
Many national and multinational companies, including progressive Law firms, visited NUST for their recruitment activities.
Nestle Recruitment Drive All disciplines Undergraduate – Junior Year – 3rd Year Undergraduate – Senior Year – 4th year Masters – First Year Masters – Final Year
ICI Recruitment Drive ICI Recruitment Drive was conducted at SCME Seminar hall. The drive was attended by students of engineering and management schools
The Citizen Foundation (TCF) Recruitment Drive TCF Recruitment Drive was conducted at S3H Conference hall. The drive was attended by 1st and 2nd year students of Management Sciences
Unilever Session Session SEECS Seminar Hall NUST H-12 Campus, Islamabad
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Placement As of July, 2018, 95% Class of 2016-2018 has been placed in leading national and multinational organisations including, McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, L’Oreal, Philip Morris International, Mitsubishi Corporation, Nestlé, Reckitt Benckiser, PepsiCo, Coca – Cola Beverages Ltd, Jazz, Ufone, Dawood Hercules Corporation Ltd, Engro Corporation, Standard Chartered Bank, HBL, House of Habib to name a few.
Our Recruiting Partners
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Here is what our Industry Partners have to say ! I’ve been coordinating with NUST’s Placement Office for the last 3 years for our campus recruitment drives. The response from the NPO team has been amazing, not just in helping with coordinating the students and sharing our message but also following up with us for the performances of students we hire through on campus recruitment programmes. Their dedicated and strong liaison with Huawei, makes us believe about NPO as one of the best organised industry partners. Rehan Tariq Senior Specialist HR Department Huawei Technologies Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.
As an HR professional I am always on the lookout for action oriented, ambitious and passionate professionals. In my experience, working with the NPO has always been very rewarding. I’ve found every individual from NUST that I have personally met, to have a very professional outlook about themselves, in depth knowledge of the subject matter and a natural tendency to think outside the box. They are proficient in applying their knowledge in real life problems and crafting innovative solutions. It is for these reasons that NUST and its graduates will always be my first priority. Sahibzada Junaid Senior Executive Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding ,ZONG
Over the years, we have been extremely impressed with our relationship with NUST and their facilitation to help us liaise and connect with their students. We have had graduates from NUST over the years and they all come with a broad perspective of succeeding in the business community. I would like to congratulate the University for developing leaders with strong business fundamentals and facilitating us to implement various interventions to build future leaders of our country. Farah Amna Assistant Manager Leadership Development, Unilever Collaboration with NUST Placement Office has been mutually beneficial in many aspects. Be it reaching out for sourcing of amazing talent, branding our organization as an employer of choice or guiding their students in industry projects ,we have had a smooth experience of dealing with single platform to connect to all the schools under NUST Hubrah siddiqui Senior Executive HR Ufone CDC has launched a wonderful initiative to educate students on critical skills to increase chances of employability. The sooner we start teaching our students about how to fit the industry and market’s needs, the better we equip them for the future. It is even further commendable that the university priorities the students to such a degree that an entire department is dedicated to these activities, this breaks the monotony of academia with a fresh perspective. I sincerely hope other universities rapidly adopt this programme and make it a part of their curriculum. Adi Abdurab Co-founder Surgengin
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Student Testimonials
NPO Services Getting placed at a leading marketing firm was my top priority and the Placements Office did a splendid job in providing the right exposure and developing our employ-ability. Thanks to NPO, I got offers from KE, Huawei and currently leveraging my skills at Nielsen. This year saw the number of companies coming to NUST increase many folds and for this, NPOO surely deserves credit NUST Placements Office is doing a marvelous job ,I have attended many industry session arranged by NPO, including blue chip companies like Engro, P&G, PMI and etc and I was lucky enough to get selected in PMI InKompass Programme. Thanks to NUST & NPO for providing us such meaningful opportunities Yashal Shahid SCME Student-4th year
Getting placed at a leading marketing firm was my top priority and the Placements Office did a splendid job in providing the right exposure and developing our employ-ability. Thanks to NPO, I got offers from KE, Huawei and currently leveraging my skills at Nielsen. This year saw the number of companies coming to NUST increase many folds and for this, NPO surely deserves credit. Aleem Hasan NUST Business School Alumnus-2015
Internships offer an opportunity to develop students’ professional skills. Every year NUST Placement Office organises Internships in all leading companies of Pakistan, I got an opportunity to work as intern in Reckitt Bencknsier during summers. I hope NUST Placement Office continue to offer such great opportunities to NUSTians in years to come Maria Shujja ASAB Student-4th year
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CDC Services CDC has been a great support during my stay at NUST. CDC equipped me with the skillset that enabled me to secure a job in a prestigious company right after my graduation. I would like to thank CDC who lifts me up with their exceptional motivation. Gohar Shaukat SMME Alumnus- 2017 Trainee Field Engineer Weatherford
We wish to acknowledge the valuable input & support provided by CDC that facilitated us in the best way possible. The guidance in terms of how to incorporate factors in determining a career and dispensing advice accordingly played an important role in adding credibility to our IR- based solution. Guidance offered by CDC team and the time invested by them is deeply appreciated. Rimsha Khurram Amna Abdul Rehman Ureb Hasan SEECS Alumni - 2018 3rd prize holder in Industry adjudged SEECS Open House 2018
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Our Structure Pro Rector Research Innovation & Commercialisation(RIC)
Head Career Development Centre
Pool of Subject Matter Experts
Head Placements
AM Placements -I
AM Placements -II
Our Team Assistant Manager Placement-I Maryam Akmal
Phone Number +92 332 5196605 Email: Am.ir@ilo.edu.nust.pk Postal Address Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE), Innovation Drive, Sector H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan
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