Placement season for the final year students of College of Dairy and Food Science Technology (CDFST) started today with Nestle visiting the campus for recruitment in its 8 plants present all over India. Placement season will continue till December after which students will go for 6-month training.

In the recruitment drive by Nestle, out of 55 students in the final year, a total of 46 students appeared for the group discussion. Among these, 14 were shortlisted for the interview process. Finally 5 students, Prachi Mundra, Manoj Kasana, Priya Agrawal, Nitin Kumar and Diksha Mathur, were selected in the interview and will be joining Nestle by next year. 3 of these 5 students are from Food Technology while the other 2 are from Dairy Technology field.

Dr. Maya Chaudhary, Dean CDFST, said, “After three years of extensive teaching, practical exams and the recruitment process, the students will be given an experiential training of six months from January onwards.”

According to Dr. GK Mathur, Head-DFT and Placement Co-ordinator, CDFST, “After Nestle, many more companies likely to visit the campus such as Coca Cola, Mehsana Dairy, Mother Dairy, and Almarai (Saudi Arabia). Former students of our college are placed in several renowned companies in India and abroad”.

Recruiters from Nestle required the candidates to be technically sound and possessing decent soft skills, apart from their qualification.