The Recruitment Co-ordination Committee (RCC) of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) has got the ball rolling for campus recruitment with many firms invited by the panel scheduling interviews on April 9.
The committee comprises student representatives who streamline the recruitment process for the benefit of fourth year NLSIU students.
Divyanshu Agarwal, member of the RCC, said placements begin soon after the pre-placement season ends, which is usually by way of employment opportunities that come during or at the end of internships.
“This year, among the 30 students who undertook internships, 15 of them landed up with jobs,”he said.
The RCC invites well-known law firms such as Luthra and Luthra Law Offices, Azd and Partners, Trilegal, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., and Khaitan and Co.
“They all come on a particular day, and usually five firms come on the first day. They conduct interviews and at the end of the day offer jobs,” Mr. Agarwal said, adding that five-year B.A. LLB students are offered jobs that fetch them Rs. 12 lakh to Rs. 18 lakh per annum.
“This year there are 75 students studying in the fourth year, and over half the number may participate in campus recruitment process. The rest have either secured jobs or want to venture into other avenues. We conduct the placements in stages depending on how many students are left out,” he added.
V.S. Elizabeth, professor and placement officer, NLSIU, said: “The batch of 2015 has just begun its recruitment process. They are in the last term of their fourth year. So their employment opportunities are just emerging since January this year, when they began applying to companies and law firms after the latter made some pre-placement offers during their January-March internships.”
Speaking of trends that have been noticed in the placements over the years, Prof. Elizabeth said: “Over the last few years we have found that foreign law firms and companies begin this process early in the fourth year and are thus the first ones to make the pre-placement offers during or at the end of the compulsory internships. The Indian law firms not to be left behind come to the campus during the last trimester of the fourth year to actually interview and make offers. So generally about half the number of students who decide to participate in the recruitment process get a job offer before they enter the fifth year, and the process of recruitment goes on till the last trimester of the five-year programme.”
