Janus Job Fair

Creative writing

On the 28th of February, Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous held three important events and one of them was the Janus Job Fair. The Centre for Media Studies dept. Of Jyoti Nivas hosted their 26th Janus Job Fair this year again continuing the trademark. The job fair was exclusively for the media students of the college. There were close to 20 companies who graced the occasion with their presence offering internships, jobs and other courses related to media.

A few notable companies were Gloss&Glass, Manya, travel and tourism agency and Meraki institute of design. This job fair was hosted to help the media students get a better exposure and shot at internships and jobs and to also help prepare themselves career wise. As most first years even had an internship based exam in their 3rd semester, this was taken up seriously . This would also get them better placements and work experience , not to mention the valuable knowledge they gain in their field of interest, whether it came to blogging, creative writing or simply photography.

The job fair was coordinated in equilibrium by both the department teachers and the students. The student council of CMS contacted media based companies and got the campus job fair ready. Mouna Dhananjay,the depts’ treasurer handled the finances incurred for the fair, Muskan Raj, Publicity Head of the dept. coordinated the events and timings with the companies. Refreshments and campus decoration was simultaneously done by the students and teachers.

The day started off with an inaugural cutting of the ribbon by Dr.Sr.Elizabeth C.S, the lamp was lit and the cake was cut raising a loud applause and cheer from the crowd. The principal then gave an encouraging message to the students .

Students then started swarming in to all the stalls put up with different companies. The companies’ representatives started off by giving a full fledged introduction about them, there were banners put up too. Although most students went to most stalls for the purpose of gaining attendance, few of them turned out to find their interests coinciding with that of the company and were soon eager to join in either an internship or a course offered by them. The travel/blogging company attracted a lot of students as it seemed most of them had a flair for content writing and blogging. Since it was on a scorching afternoon cooling refreshments were a necessity and we could see the students refuelling themselves with it as well as people representing their companies get their share too. There were few companies who had worked with the college for a solid amount of years and were very familiar with the staff and CMS dept.

Overall the day was a success with many students going back home with a clearer set goal or atleast an inkling of what they would like to pursue and what they would not. As for the CMS dept. This was one of the countless fests they had hosted in the same month and they made sure nothing went wrong even in the end. Getting to rest their feet for once felt like paradise. All their hardwork had paid off.