Alstom India has announced the commencement of a unique induction programme --- Alstom Ki Pathshala --- for its fresh batch of 126 Young Engineering Graduates (YEG). Started in the first week of July 2011, the Young Engineering Graduates program has been specially designed by an in-house panel of 14 members and will run for a period of 75 days. The program aims to promote a new generation of technical workforce to build a talent pool and future leaderships within the organization. The pedagogy used during this program is through active experimentation, feedback and reinforcement of learning. There will be special briefing sessions by top management as well as training sessions by experts on topics such as business etiquettes, tools and processes, power plant familiarisation, among others, to help each one of them to build strong competencies for a smooth transition from academia to the industry. Throughout the program, participants will have an opportunity to innovate and find working solutions to problems faced in professional life with the help of experiential exercises such as T-Shirt painting workshop, Innovations and CSR workshop, Offsite, team-building exercise, among others. A total of 1,500 students from across 40 renowned engineering colleges in India went through the 45-day on-campus recruitment procedure. The students were recruited by a panel of 48 members from across various businesses in Alstom. A special team did the rounds of renowned colleges, even stationed themselves in the campuses, to ensure consistency and need-based recruitment. Besides this, a strict screening criterion was followed to tap the best talent in the institutes, including Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Vellore Institute of Technology and National Power Training Institute at Durgapur.
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