IIT Madras, Diamondpick to train fresh engineering students

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation and Diamondpick, a talent solutions company, signed an agreement to jointly provide comprehensive training to fresh engineering students.

Diamondpick will oversee the recruitment process under the "hire-train-deploy" model, for freshers. Students will undergo training provided by the company for four to six months after the selection.

The collaboration aims to equip students with technologies and assist them in securing employment with leading IT organizations.

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Diamondpick will provide employment opportunities to the best-performing students. The company will also assess the skill gap among industry professionals. Diamondpick and IITM Pravartak jointly aim to help students improve their skills by providing guidance from the experts and also aims to deliver a skilled workforce using its proprietary recruitment framework.

The agreement was signed in the presence of V Kamakoti, director of IIT Madras; Lakshmi Narayanan, chairman of the governing council of Digital Skills Academy, IIT Madras;

Mangala Sunder Krishnan, founder and mentor of Digital Skills Academy, IIT Madras; MJ Shankar Raman, CEO of IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation; Balamurali Shankar, general manager of Digital Skills Academy, IIT Madras; Sriram Rajagopal, founder and director of Diamondpick; Satish Jeyaraman, CEO of Diamondpick, and Santhosh Srinivasan, CFO of Diamondpick.

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The foundation operates as a Section 8 company. The funding to IITM Pravartak is provided by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems.

Shankar, the general manager of Digital Skills Academy, IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation, said, “Our vision is to provide opportunities for fresh graduates by providing industry-relevant skilling with tools and techniques that will enable them to secure meaningful employment and pursue fulfilling careers. IITM Pravartak will jointly work with Diamondpick to analyse the demand of the industry in leading edge technologies and skill students with academicians and industry experts towards employment.”