1 November 2017 10:15 am
The Career Fair will be held on 25th and 26th November at NSBM Green University Town, Pitipana, Homagama.
NSBM Deputy Vice Chancellor Chaminda Rathnayake speaking at the MoU signing ceremony said: “We are committed to ensure the employability of our graduates and this career fair which is a part of our industry partnership programme is a mutually benefiting arrangement for the industry and the students.”
Omobio General Manager Samitha A. Nagasinghe added: “Omobio has many success stories of hiring undergraduates and fresh graduates and nurturing them to unearth their hidden talents. We hope to provide challenging career development opportunities to undergraduates and fresh graduates by partnering the career fair.”
This Career Fair is an opportunity to meet over 1,100 graduates from the School of Business and over 500 graduates from the School of Computing who are graduating from NSBM in December 2017 and are therefore, available for employment. In addition, over 2,000 undergraduates of NSBM who are available for internships will also be attending the career fair. In addition, the career fair will be open for the fresh graduates and undergraduates of other universities and education institutions.
Companies and employer organizations will be able to meet the above student groups, to inform them about their career opportunities, conduct interviews and recruit fresh graduates and interns at the event. The first day of the career fair (25th November) will have a greater focus on business management related opportunities while the second day (26th November) will focus on IT/computing related opportunities. A series of career guidance, skills development and personal development sessions and mini workshops will also be held on both days.
Over 35 companies have confirmed their participation to the career fair as of now. This includes companies such as Asia Asset Finance, Astron, BPO Connect, CAMMS, Commercial Leasing, Creative Software, Dankotuwa Porcelain, David Pieris IT, DreamJobs.lk, Ernst and Young, Everjobs.lk, Avery Dennison, Extrogene Software, Fidenz Technologies, Hatton National Bank, hSenid Business Solutions, IFS World, ISM APAC, Laugfs Holdings, MAS LEGATO, Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services, Omobio, OrangeHRM Inc, Prima Management Services, Rakiya.lk, Recruitme.lk, Royal Ceramics, Serendib Leisure, SimCentric Technologies, Sky Management Systems, Standard Chartered Bank, Unilever, VS Information Systems and zMessenger who will provide internships and entry level employment opportunities related to business management and IT/computing at the career fair.
Omobio Private Limited, the Gold sponsor for the School of Computing is a Sri Lankan company established in February 2011, built on a strong foundation of values and ethics. It has been able to expand its customer base to several other regions of the globe within a very short period of time and has solutions deployed in Sri Lanka, South Asia, Middle-east and African Regions with operators who own large market share.
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 post-graduate programmes in three streams namely Business Management, Computing
and Engineering.