Career Training and Placement Cell (UoM-CTPC)

Purpose

University of Mumbai’s Career Training and Placement Cell (CTPC) is established under the Honourable Vice Chancellor’s initiative. It aims at facilitating quality placements, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities for students. Its primary goal is to prepare students to be industry-ready by bridging the gap between academia and recruiters.

Objectives

1. Strengthening Academia-Industry Connection: Bridge the gap between academia and recruiters to meet industry, academia, and research outcomes.
2. Providing Placement Assistance: Provide placement assistance, employment counselling, and support for self/social entrepreneurship.
3. Offering Logistic Support: Offer university infrastructure to visiting companies for organizing placement activities.
4. Providing Career Guidance: Enable students to choose from various career options by acting as an interface between industry and students.

Projected Activities

1. Job and Entrepreneurship Information: Gather and analyse information on job avenues and entrepreneurship opportunities.
2. Placement Policies: Formulate campus placement policies and procedures.
3. Seminars and Workshops: Organize seminars and workshops to inform students about professional trends, job profiles, leadership roles, and market needs, and to impart soft skills training.
4. Personality Development: Conduct personality development lectures by experts from academia and the corporate sector.
5. Campus Placement: Facilitate campus placements across university departments and host various companies for recruitment processes.
6. Job and Skill Fairs: Organize job and skill fairs, pool campus drives, and off-campus drives.
7. Entrepreneurial Programs: Coordinate with the University’s Incubation Centre to organize entrepreneurial capacity-building programs.
8. Internship and Apprenticeship: Coordinate industry internships and apprenticeship training opportunities.
9. Employment for Persons with Disabilities: Make special efforts to provide employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.
10. Mock Interviews: Organize mock interviews to help students with body language, professional etiquette, and confidence for final interviews.
11. Alumni Network: Maintain constant contact with alumni through the University of Mumbai Alumni Association.
12. Student Database: Create and maintain a database of students seeking placement opportunities.