Students starting PP in Nov 2010

In November following students began their Professional Practice:
       Name                         Company Name
        Ravi Shankar                All check 
       Kavita Ranjan                GI Group
        Ishan Arsh                   Jones Lang Lasalles
        Bipan Kumar               Medsave Health care
        Yagya Nidhi Sharma    Prime  Naukri.com
 The Centre has increased number of Technical openings by 60% this month. Master Java, .Net and Oracle if you want a good technical profile

NIIT Model Town Achiever's League

Kamal Kant Barik is a quiet and unassuming person and despite his rise on professional front is shy to talk about himself. Yet he is a NIIT Model Town Achiever. His details are:

Present Organization - DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Co LTD 
 Present Role - Senior IT- Executive 
 CTC - 3 Lakh/Annum 

. Previous Organizations & Experience - 2 Year Experience in the same organization provided above 
 Qualifications - Graduate with regular college(Satyawati College) from Delhi University,GNIIT from NIIT and pursuing last year of MCA from Sikkim and Manipal University 
 Details of certifications - Got Excellent rank in GNIIT from NIIT and having 90 + marks in all 6 semesters 

 About his education in NIIT Model Town, Kamal says

"There are lot of way by which NIIT has help me in achieving my goal few of them are as follows.

1) Providing better education 

2) Full fledge knowledge of industry by providing industry oriented kit to the student. 

3) Getting taught by highly professional teachers. 

4) Setting platform for me achieving the provided goal. 

5) Study material the matches the current standard of the industry. 

6) Good study environment with machine room practices that helps lot in having indepth knowledge"

NIIT Job Fair gets BIG response

NIIT organised a Job Fair on 29th Nov 2010 in Mohan Cooperative, Mathura Road in which 16 leading companies attended and  2000 students participated. There was a big rush for Software Development jobs. More than 200 students got shortlisted and will be going for further screening.

NIIT Model Town Achievers League (S.No 2)

Dheeraj Sachdeva joined NIIT Model Town Centre for the 4 sem DNIIT program while he was doing his BCom Hons from Delhi University. He completed DNIIT in 2004.  Later he qualified as Company Secretary and now he is working in a US multinational group Carlsons Hotel drawing an attractive salary. Prior to that he was working in Ayur Herbals.
Dheeraj says "about how NIIT has helped me in my career, I can say that even in my profession of Company Secretary NIIT has helped me a lot by giving me complete knowledge of IT which was required for my profession as well and various extra curriculam programmes organised by NIIT helped me in my overall career development"
Dheeraj is well settled in his career and we are very proud of him. An NIIT Model Town Achiever who chose to study IT to have an edge over others in his chosen profession

Students who started PP In Oct 2010

Following students of NIIT Model Town started PP in Oct2010
Congrats to all!!
 1 Rajeev Kumar Jha  ARCS
 2 Lalu Abhay  Jha  Prime naukri.com
 3 Pooja Gupta CSAV
 4 Pradip Mudi  Suntech Technologies 
 5 Sumit Soni ARCS
        

NIIT Model Town Achievers League

We shall be featuring the profile of some of the ex students of NIIT Model Town Centre so that they can be a source of inspiration for others. They had started thir careers through NIIT and  have now occupied positions of responsibility.

NIIT Model Town Achievers League (S.No 1)

Kshitij Punjani completed his GNIIT in 2005 having done his PP in Amadeus India P Ltd. He is presently Software Designer in Royal Bank of Scotland with a salary of Rs 9.5 lacs. Prior to this company he was in Fiserv India and did a 6 months stint in the USA
Kshitij had done BCom along with GNIIT but subsequently did MCA and MBA. He has to his credit many international certifications from Microsoft in .Net technologies.
Kshitij Punjani  is the success story of an ideal GNIIT student. He is a role model others should emulate. Kshitij we are proud of  you !

Happy Diwali

The November month started in a festive mood with Diwali. The students of NIIT Model Town Centre were very enthusiastic in celebrating the festival of lights. Rangolis were made by them to welcome Goddess Laxmi.Good work students!! Pooja was organised on 4th Nov and classes were suspended till 7th Nov. The Centre would like to wish all students and their families A HAPPY DIWALI !!

Rangoli

Rangoli

                                             Students in Diwali mood

Demand for new recruits up in IT sector

The IT sector is aggressively looking for trained manpower. Top companies like TCS, Wipro and Tech Mahindra are targeting 110,000 recruits. Good opportunities for NIIT students! Read the link
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/careers/job-trends/Infy-TCS-Wipro-to-hire-90K/articleshow/6734219.cms

Toppers of Month

Students who scored more than 90% in On line Tests are Toppers of month
They get Domino's Pizza from Centre to celebrate
Here is the list for Aug 2010

NAME	SEM	MARKS
SHIVANI GOEL	BSSMC MT2	97
PRIYANKA MIGLANI	BSSMC MT2	96
SANIYA DUA	BSSMC MT2	94
ANKUSH BATRA	BSSMC MT2	90
GURBACHAN SINGH	BSSMC MT2	95
HUKAM CHAND	BSSMC MT2	100
CHANDNI	BSSMC MT2	94
RAHUL AHUJA	T1SMD MT1	94
KAVITA RANJAN	BSSMD MT1	91
HIMANSHU BHARDWAJ	T1SMC ELECTIVE	100

All the Best! Keep the hard work on

Professional Practice Update

In September 2010 the following students started their Professional Practice of 1 year


Amar Singh CSAV
Sumit Kumar CSAV
Sonia Arora CSAV
Ashish Gupta  Citibank
Pankaj Kumar Bank Of America
Bhupender Singh  Annik System 

Good Luck to all. We are proud of you!

Worlds of Wonder was FUN

The  Centre had on 23 Oct organised a day trip to "Worlds of Wonder" at NOIDA. This is an amusement park of international level. More than 100 students joined in this trip.Antakshri in the bus ride itself set the tone for the day. At the park  the rides were unlimited and of course the Rain dance was fun. The GL and Centre team joined the students in making it a memorable trip. Look out for the snaps on this blog

Student Celebration Week

Students at Alumi Talk

                                              Alumni Rajeev Jha shares his experience

                                                          70's Fashion at Fancy Dress

Bhai Ishtyle at Fancy Dress

Student Celebration Week was arranged in October 2010 by Staff & Students of NIIT Model Town Centre
Students participated with enthusiasm  in IT Quiz, Bollywood Quiz, Antakshari, Comedy Circus and Fancy dress.Winners were as follows:
IT & Bollywood Quiz
Nistha, Archit Gupta, Rahul Aditya (7th Oct)
Ved Prakash, Nisha, Varun Garg (8th Oct)
Chandan Singh, Anuj Nayyar, Mehak Hasija (9th Oct)
Basant Mehra, Jasvinder Devgan, Harish Thakur(11 th Oct)
Devendra Tanwar (12th Oct)

Fancy Dress theme was 1970's Fashion. Winners were Nishtha Arora & Udit Kohli. Both were very impressive in their turn out. Well done!
Comedy Circus regaled the audience with their jokes and skits. The group consisting of Hitesh, Bhavya Jain and Nishi got the maximum laughs and claps and were adjudged the best. Great Show!
Winners earned prizes for their efforts & luck! Congrats! Thanks for all who participated. Thanks to Divya Mam and Supriya Mam for coordination
 There was an interactive session  with GNIIT students who are already working in the industry. Valuable information was given on Professional Practice by Parul Goel (Prudent IT), Amar Singh (CSAV) and Rajiv Jha (ARCS). The alumni inspired the students and asked them to focus on MR, Projects and ISAS to make a good entry into the industry