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Campus Recruitment Specialist

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Campus Recruitment Specialists own the end-to-end university hiring pipeline for Indian companies — mapping target institutes (IITs, NITs, IIMs, BITS, tier-2 engineering colleges), negotiating placement-season slots with TPO offices, running pre-placement talks and hackathons, interviewing candidates on-campus, and converting offers before a rival recruiter swoops in with a better CTC. The role is the bridge between a company's workforce plan and the graduating batch: you decide which 15 out of 200 colleges get your time, what the PPO-to-offer conversion target is, and how to build the employer brand in the minds of 21-year-olds who have never heard of your company. In India, campus hiring volumes are enormous — TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, and Cognizant each hire 30,000–80,000 freshers a year; GCCs (Microsoft India, Goldman Sachs, Amazon) hire smaller, curated cohorts from 10–30 elite institutes. Campus recruitment specialists sit at the intersection of sales (selling the company to sceptical students choosing between 5–8 offer letters), logistics (coordinating drives across 40–100 colleges in 3 months), and analytics (converting test scores, GPA cut-offs, and PI feedback into hire/no-hire verdicts). Strong performers move into TA management, employer-branding leadership, or HR-business-partner tracks.