11 December 2017 11:01 am
NSBM Green University Town Acting Chairperson Ruwanthi Gunathilake recently declared open the NSBM Career Fair with the presence of Deputy Vice Chancellor Chaminda Rathnayake, School of Business Dean Thilini De Silva, School of Computing Dean Chaminda Wijesinghe, Head of Student Affairs Baratha Dodankotuwa and academic and non-academic staff at the NSBM Green University Town, Homagama recently.
Representatives from the sponsoring organisations were also present at the opening ceremony.
It was able to link 63 leading companies with 2,850 students from NSBM and 43 other higher education institutions over the two days.
NSBM Career Fair was organised to support graduates of the Schools of Business and Computing of NSBM who are graduating in December 2017 and are therefore, available for employment. In addition, undergraduates of NSBM who are available for internships also attended the career fair. Further, it was also opened for the fresh graduates and undergraduates of all other universities and education institutions.
Companies at the fair were seeking candidates for entry-level employment and internships/training opportunities; they conducted walk-in interviews and successful candidates received their letters of appointment at the fair itself.
Laugfs Holdings, Omobio and IFS R&D International conducted workshops on career guidance and skills development.
IFS R&D International Director Software Development Mangala Perera, who spoke at a workshop, said: “We really appreciate the effort made by NSBM to prepare students with the right skills and behaviours they need to succeed in the industry. We believe that the industry should actively support universities to improve the quality of the IT education because the IT industry itself mainly depends on the quality of professionals we get from the universities.”
Laugfs Holdings and Omobio were the Gold sponsors for the career fair (Laugfs Holdings was Gold sponsor for Business category Omobio was Gold sponsor for IT category) while Avery Dennison Lanka, Commercial Leasing and Finance, Hemas Consumer, Hirdaramani Group, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, IFS R&D International, ISM APAC and Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services joined the event as Bronze sponsors.
Laugfs Holdings Manager Talent Acquisition Tharindu Somiratna said: “Laugfs as a growing conglomerate, counts on Sri Lankan talent. NSBM Career Fair was a great opportunity to reach such young marketable talent.”
Omobio General Manager Samitha Nagasinghe said: “NSBM Career Fair was a very positive and well-organised event. We look forward to this again next year and years thereafter.”
The sponsors of the event were awarded with a token of appreciation by Ruwini Gunathilake for their contribution at the event.
NSBM Green University Town is a fully-fledged university town built on a 26-acre premise at Homagama. It currently houses over 9,000 on-campus students, which will record the highest student population among the state and private universities by the end of year 2018. NSBM offers UGC-approved and foreign undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in three streams namely business management, computing and engineering.