connection For Internal Circulation Only Apr-Jun’ 2013

Students’ newsletter

Making a Point…

‘Cloud Campus’, was launched redefining the education landscape by making available new-age skills, to the students across the country. NIIT Cloud CampusTM harnesses the power of Cloud technology to provide unique features – such as: Cloud Classroom – Interact and learn from not only the at-location faculty, but also expert faculty from wherever they are.

Cloud Courseware – The digital and dynamic courseware enables making notes, highlight and review at own convenience.

Anywhere Lab – Providing 24x7 access for hands-on practice and application of concepts learnt in class, on the device.

Lesson on Demand – Ensuring that students don’t have to miss a lesson, even if they miss a class.

Online Assessments – Enabling students take practice tests besides taking industry-level assessments.

Buddynet Learning – A learning feature that enables collaboration with other students as well as expert faculty, thus making learning lot more fun.

Fasten your seat belts and get ready to Ride the Cloud!

My dear students,

You are not Studying at NIIT… Indeed raises some eyebrows ! And so we elaborate – yes, you are learning and educating yourself at NIIT. NIIT does not “teach”, but enables you “learn” by providing a platform that is truly built around the knowledge gateway.. NIIT Cloud Campus! All readers are welcome to write in contributions for this newsletter. This is an engagement platform for us to connect with each other. Help us make this more meaningful and magical for the entire NIIT student community.

Your friendly editor, Shalu Bhatia

INSIDE PAGES… 3 Reasons to Smile – know more about the

services available at www.niitstudent.com 4 New Tech Initiative for our students 5-7 Events@NIIT – Tech and non-tech events

conducted at various centres nationally 8 INTERACT – a new interactive initiative 9 Student’s Speak – Students share their WOW

experience at NIIT 10 Placement Highlights 11 Rattle your Brains – Be the quickest one to

send in your answers to this edition’s quiz 12 Grooming Series – Showcase your best for

your finest ever interview! Read on..

Don’t forget to send your feedback at studentconnect@niit.com

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You have a Problem, We have a Solution… We recommend you to talk to your GL/ faculty and get instant resolution.

ou may login to www.niitstudent.com/india. Click Complaints. Select your Complaint Category and Sub-Category Do ensure your E-mail ID mentioned is the one you will access Mention your problem statement and the required details Attach relevant documents, if required and SUBMIT. Note your Reference ID. We will revert to you within 48 hours. Check the response from us in the Complaints Window on www.niitstudent.com/india. CLOSE if it is resolved by giving your feedback/ REOPEN if you are not satisfied with the response. Do mention your comments.

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20 Seconds ..and the eye strain goes away!

Learn something what others don’t know!!

Do your eyes get tired after spending a lot of time looking at computer or phone screen? The reason is you may be forgetting to blink. So, don’t forget to blink! Follow the 20-20-20 rule. About every 20 minutes, look away at something about 20 feet in front of you. Keep your eyes on that object for 20 seconds. Looking away at something for 20 seconds, really does make the eyes feel better. So, If you feel strain in your eyes, give this a try!

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Your Cloud Bibliography

BUDDY NET LEARNING (earlier Cloudscape or Cloud Services)

CLOUD COURSEWARE(earlier Cloud Courseware Library)

ANYWHERE LAB(earlier Clab or Cloud Lab)

LESSON ON DEMAND(earlier Recorded Lecture)

. Series of Technology updates on select

Wednesdays over SLT platform Showcase best projects and

achievements by our students First session conducted on

5th June, 2013

Gain from the experience of the experts, learn beyond the course content, groom into a complete professional… Watch out for the next session!

Mohit has created an App called Friendship Calculator

that has been approved by Microsoft Mohit demonstrated the App

working during the session

Introducing Mohit Kanoria, NIIT Kolkata Kankurgachi

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Our students are our pride! Showcasing Technical prowess, confidently presenting the study themes, learning from experienced industry

stalwarts, even celebrating the festivities of life, no one can beat these multi-talented champions of NIIT.. A glimpse of some student activities shared by our STUDENT RELATIONSHIP OFFICERS

NIIT Delhi South Extension Centre Welcome Aboard ~~ Freshers Party and Talent Hunt organized for the new joinees was indeed the ice breaker. Students were quite excited, actively participated in the whole gamut of fun filled activities and talent show and not to be missed Mr Fresher and Ms Fresher. The competition was judged and winners were given away prizes by the Centre Head. Glimpses galore…

NIIT Delhi Connaught Place organized Freshers Party for the new GNIIT students. The event kicked off with the Games , technical round of questions and answers, and lots of involvement from the students too.

NIIT Delhi Preet Vihar conducted Technical Quiz with overwhelming participation and equally excited audience. The four interestingly designed rounds (Multiple Choice IT questions, Choose your Hero, Rapid Fire, Choose your Technology) created the buzz around the whole event.

NIIT Delhi Rajouri Garden organized Freshers Party for the new GNIIT students. The students all dressed in the purest form – White and blue, created a unique dress code on the day. The students and the faculty members had a wonderful time spent in various fun activities. The Bond created – Priceless!

NIIT Delhi Green Park organized Freshers Party for the GNIIT students. Antakshari, Dumb Charades, Dancing , Mr and Ms Fresher were the action packed events that kept students excited throughout.

NIIT Gurgaon Old DLF Colony Centre focussed the month on job readiness, Seminar on new and upcoming technologies and creating cloud awareness.

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NIIT Kolkata Camac Street coupled the academic flavour with the knowledge supplement in the Know Your Cloud event participated by over 100 students and and amazing all by creating games using the scratch tool. They also attended seminar getting to know the Cloud features, short quiz and sharing their thought on the Cloud.

NIIT Siliguri organized National Technology Day with an address on revolutionary changes in NIIT education delivery through cloud centric methodology, followed by cloud campus features. Students too presented their learnings and findings on the cloud features and upcoming technologies like Google Glass. Quiz on CCDM and CCS was also conducted.

Our students are our pride! Showcasing Technical prowess, confidently presenting the study themes, learning from experienced industry

stalwarts, even celebrating the festivities of life, no one can beat these multi-talented champions of NIIT.. A glimpse of some Big time student activities shared by our STUDENT RELATIONSHIP OFFICERS

NIIT Delhi Janak Puri organized A day with NIIT Alumni for its current students. Attended by 7 alumni, who shared their experience about learning at NIIT and how it helped them secure the best of placements. They were felicitated for their achievements.

NIIT Asansol celebrated its Foundation Day on 13th May. Saraswati Vandana choired by the students commenced the event. Students gave their performances on dance, recitation, performance by music band Pulse.

NIIT Chandanangar organized Cloud Day with a seminar on Cloud followed by Quiz and share your Cloud experience.

NIIT Hyderabad Basheerbagh had a deep dive in the Cloud with students presenting the wholesome cloud experience as they are undergoing in their curriculum, followed by answering the queries and Quiz Competition put together by the faculty members.

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Our students are our pride! Showcasing Technical prowess, confidently presenting the study themes, learning from experienced industry

stalwarts, even celebrating the festivities of life, no one can beat these multi-talented champions of NIIT.. A glimpse of some student activities shared by our STUDENT RELATIONSHIP OFFICERS

NIIT Pune Chinchwad felicitated their students during the Convocation and Parent Teachers Meet, attended by 60 students and parents.

NIIT Mumbai Dadar introduced the new GNIIT with a fan fare and parents invited for the orientation session covering the new GNIIT framework, learning methodology, highlights of digital courseware, and more.

NIIT Alwaye Centre conducted Aptitude and Technical test for diploma and GNIIT Students with complete evaluation, result declaration, suggested improvements and confidence boosting.

NIIT Chennai NH announced Summer Fest spreading the good word with lots of energy, creativity, dynamicity. The students were real experts in vegetable carving, pot painting, thermocol crafting, and the fun quiz with technical dumb charades, Who Am I, Word Game and lots of fun for all.

NIIT Chennai Annanagar had a Rock n Roll and GFE student farewell with much fanfare.

NIIT Madurai AK Road organized Topper’s Day wherein the toppers were awarded and felicitated. Guest of Honour was Mr. Udhayaraja, PRO at Fatima Michael Engineering College and Technology. The proud parents too participated actively during the event.

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Rajni , our faculty at NIIT Mumbai Virar has taken up a

challenge to teach MS Office and Tally to a deaf & dumb student. She is taking the pain of teaching this student through hand expressions and writing. The physically

disabled student is brilliant and equally participative as other students. She had earlier taught a Swift program to

a semi-blind student.

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An Open House Forum for the students

Chance to Interact with Senior Management

Students from participating centres attend

over the SLT platform

Students get to share Suggestions, Queries,

Compliments and Complaints

Three INTERACT sessions conducted so far

2500+ students have attended from across

the nation

CONTACT YOUR FACULTY/ GL AND BOOK YOUR SEAT FOR THE FORTHCOMING SESSION

Here is what your peers have to share… If you too have experienced something nice about NIIT, Please share with us .. Logon to www.niitstudent.com/india and submit Your WOW experience.

Ankur Bhattacharya is a young IT Professional from Mumbai. With a

desire to make his own applications he joined the GNIIT program of NIIT . As an NIIT student, he opted for the Software

Track as his specialization area. The “Grooming Session” provided by NIIT played the role of a catalyst to crack the interview.

He can see how the things he learnt are put to use and there is nothing more that he could ask for than for the opportunity of application of his knowledge. He likes

the new confident self and there’s a world of knowledge that he continues to explore after the starting boost that NIIT has provided him. He started his

Professional Practice as a SME Trainee at Amdocs Limited . The continuous evaluation from NIIT and Mentoring from AMDOCS. Ltd.during his internship professionally groomed Ankur. Besides implementing his technical knowledge he has developed other competencies like Planning, Analytical and learning ability, communication and documentation skills etc .Thus transforming a student into a complete professional. His performance during the internship was adjudged excellent and he was absorbed

as a regular employee by the same organization as an SME. NIIT wishes him a bright and successful future.

It is an awesome feel to study and learn using the online sessions. (Shruti Jain, NIIT Delhi Preet Vihar Centre)

Brilliant and extremely capable staffs. They give a very friendly environment to learn and practice which is very helpful in developing the knowledge of the students. The students here have the opportunity to know the real and professional stuff of programming and entire Information Technology.(Aravinth S, NIIT Chennai Adayar Centre)

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I am enjoying my studies and learning it easily with the help of excellent faculty in NIIT (Shoheb H Maldar, NIIT Mumbai Andheri W Centre)

I am a B.A. Student. I decided to opt for a Diploma course in Computer Applications from NIIT. The course gave me the opportunity to get the kind of job I was looking for. I would like to thank NIIT for their guidelines, excellent faculty members and GD & PI grooming sessions, extra tech sessions helped me to crack my important interview. (Pooja Shaw, NIIT Kolkata Dunlop Centre)

I had joined this course at a time when I needed a bit of direction and was still deciding on the career line .My only intention was to be technically strong . At NIIT , I gained valuable inputs on body language and mannerisms.I got selected in the First interview, which was provided by NIIT as .Net Developer. (Ashim Chatterjee; NIIT Bangalore Malleswaram centre)

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Are you interested to contribute for the forthcoming issue of this

student magazine… send in your inputs and do mention your

name, Student ID, centre name and mobile number mentioning a

brief about your interests and aspirations. Await your feedback

and suggestions too! Write to us at studentconnect@niit.com

For Internal Circulation Only.

HIRING ORGANIZATIONS (Apr – June, 13)

IBM (231)

WIPRO (38)

TCS (38)

TECH MAHINDRA (59)

HCL TECHNOLOGIES (25)

Industry Snippets

“Firms are struggling to find employees with suitable soft skills” -Recent recruitment trends in India suggest that while most sectors in 2013 will go slow on hiring, IT, ITeS, retail and banking will keep recruiting in large numbers. According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, several organizations are struggling to find employees with suitable domain knowledge and soft skills (Based on data collected from 5,265 Indian employers). Prominent Job sites released the latest hiring data, according to which overall hiring for the month of May 2013 was 10 per cent higher than in the same period last year. Among the metro cities, in Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad, hiring was up by 12 per cent in May this year, compared to the corresponding period last year.

NIIT Placement News (April-May-June’13)

6410 Students placed

Average Salary(Metro) : Rs.12,285

New Companies who recruited students from NIIT : 211

24 Job fair conducted across Nation.70 Clients Participated.259 students

selected only through Job Fair

rattle your BRAINS

1. The terms “bug” and “debugging” are popularly attributed to _____ 2. Think : IBM = Think Different : _____ 3. Which popular mobile application completed 20 years in 2012? 4. What is common here - Magiq, Enjoy, Slide, Xoom 5. Name the author of the book “Does IT Matter?” Rush your answers alongwith your Student ID and Centre name to studentconnect@niit.com. Top 5 students will be mentioned in our next edition.

Contact your Academic Counselor for more information about the Apps Development program

‘First impression is the last impression’.. And when it is the job interview, the impression business gets all the more critical.

Some Basics for MALES Neat Ironed Clothes: Long Sleeved white shirts with dark coloured trousers test best For an interview. No T-Shirts & Cargos please! Tie: If you have to wear , select an “updated” silk tie, keeping in mind the importance of width. The tip of the tie should barely touch the top of your belt buckle. Also, the pattern of the tie should be small, subtle, and repetitive. Shoes: Wear shoes to match your belt, but be sure not to wear casual / sports shoes. Leather Belt: A black or burgundy belt to match your shoes should always be worn. Socks: All socks should reach to your mid-calf. & match your trouser colour. Hygiene: Close shave or well groomed facial hair; short & clean nails. Perfume : A small amount goes a long way. Should not be very strong smelling. Some Basics for FEMALES Professional skirt/ Pant/ Suit/ Saree: Navy, grey, black are all conservative suit colors to invest. Calf-length skirts are always more appropriate. Sarees/ Suits should not be flashy & be neatly ironed. Shoes: Well polished shoes, Heels should not be greater than three inches in height. Jewellery: Wear simple yet elegant jewellery; avoid being overloaded & shining. Make-up: The goal is to look natural, neat & clean Perfume: A small amount goes a long way. Should not be very strong smelling. Nails: Clear or light nail paint is the safest option. Beyond your clothes, the initial impression that you make also includes: –Smile, Maintain eye contact –Greet with a Firm handshake –Remain positive, enthusiastic, poised, and confident, Attitude –Ability to communicate –Social skills Remember, if you don’t dress seriously, they can’t take you seriously!

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• Present yourself as a professional ..Yes! Dress for the interview, not a party • Don’t distract the interviewer’s attention; it should be on what you have to say, not your appearance • A smile, a firm handshake, and a positive attitude makes a good first impression