Students with job offers in a tight spot in absence of DMCs

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 14

Around 300 students of Guru Nanak Dev University who recently graduated from the university had got job offers from multinational companies at handsome packages. But these students are now facing a peculiar situation on account of non-availability of detailed marks certificates (DMCs) of their intermediate semesters, as they were promoted last year on the basis of the cumulative average of their grades of previous semesters as per the directions of the government in the wake of the Covid.

Some of the companies offering jobs are finding it difficult to evolve a criterion to hire prospective employees in the absence of a concrete and comprehensive evidence of their academic performance in the form of DMCs of all semesters. As a result, their job offers have been held and the students had to turn to the university to look for a solution. “Most of these students had appeared in off-campus recruitments and received jobs offers. We are working on all possible ways to resort the issue. The companies are not asking for DMCs but an aggregate of marks. We’re working on it,” said Dr Hardeep Singh, Dean Academic Affairs and Welfare, GNDU.

Reservations are also expressed on the system of conduct of non-proctored email-based examinations of the exit class students. The system of conducting non-proctored email-based examinations by sending question papers and then receiving answer sheets of students through email has not been taken very kindly by students and their employers.

“The GNDU placement cell is in contact with the recruiters and making efforts to sort out the issue. We have already intervened in the matter by sending correspondence to several MNCs,” said Amit Chopra, assistant placement officer, GNDU. We have placed around 700 students from various professional courses through on-campus online recruitments and most recruiters, knowing the special circumstances created by the pandemic,” he said.