The Modal Career Centre at NIELIT, Calicut has conducted a Mega Job Fair on 23rd April 2017 at Krishna Menon Memorial Govt Women’s College, Kannur, Kerala in collaboration with NCS Centre for SC/STs, Society for Integrated Growth, Kerala Chamber of Commerce. Mr Ramachandran P G, SREO, NCS Centre for SC/STs, Trivandrum welcomed everybody to the job fair. The fair was inaugurated by Hon Minister for Ports, Museums, Archaeology and Archives, Shri. Ramachandran Kadannappally and presided over by Mr. A N Radhakrishnan, President, SIGN. Hon Member of Parliament, Smt P K Sreemathi was the chief guest of the program. Mr Lalmohan K S, Scientist/Engineer “E”, NIELIT, Calicut delivered the key note address. The job fair was intended for job seekers with qualification from 5th standard to Post graduate level. 54 private companies including ESAF Microfinance, Reliance Nippon Life insurance co Ltd, ICICI Bank, Muthoot Microfinance Ltd, Chicking India, Malabar Gold Pvt Ltd, Joy Alukkas Pvt Ltd participated in the fair for which around 3700 job vacancies were made available. Around 12977 job seekers participated in the job fair. At the end of the day 3110 job seekers were short listed for placement by various employers.

The MCC@NIELIT, Calicut made elaborate arrangements for registration of job seekers in the NCS Portal. Officers from various Government departments like NORKA Roots, SC/ST development corporation - Kerala, Women Development Corporation - Kerala, NCS centre for differently abled-Govt. of India, Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology, MoT – Govt. of India were also present to give awareness of Government schemes in their respective area. Even though there was a huge crowd in the venue the Mega fair was incident free and conducted in a professional manner by the organizing team and more than 100 volunteers. Upon registration, each job seeker was given four coupons to attend four interviews depending upon his/her qualification.