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HCL Ties up With Chennai Colleges

22 Nov, 2007, 2:54 pm IST | by tech2 News Staff |

HCL Technologies has signed an MoU with six colleges in Chennai, starting its first campus initiative.

This initiative includes  'GoPro' - a career development program to develop the next generation of corporate community and tie-up's with women's colleges to encourage and widen the gender representation in the corporate world.

The 'GoPro' program aims at training in non-technical and soft skills in preparing a student to become  a professional, to increase their 'employability' quotient. The training  module would include soft skills, communication, etiquette and attitudinal and behavioral skills. The initiative is also structured to encourage 'innovation and creativity' among students. Varied competitions and campaigns on innovation and creativity would be rolled out.
 
Apart from tie-ups with Engineering colleges, this initiative includes tying up with  women's colleges from arts & science backgrounds to encourage gender representation and diversity in the professional workforce. HCL will also set up 'Technology Labs' to facilitate training and research work for students and introduce 'Faculty Enablement Program' for the faculty, to engage them to interact with experts in certain areas of technology.
 
The colleges that HCL is signing this MoU with are the Chennai based  Ethiraj college for Women, MOP Vaishnav college for Women, Stella Maris, SSN College of Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Thiagarajar College of Engineering from Madurai.

Ravi Shankar, Global Head - Talent Management Group said, "It is important for students to be developed in all aspects of a profession, apart from expertise in a particular field. This is a first step in our engagement with educational institutes to equip students to face the challenges of the corporate. Going forward HCL plans to associate with various other colleges across the country including in Delhi and Bangalore. Our training programme is designed essentially to help the young graduates to imbibe qualities as per the present industry requirement and learn to experiment and innovate for their future growth."
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