“It was disheartening to see the world getting digitised but campus placements still working the way it was working in the 90s”, says Vidyarthi, the other co-founder. He adds, “Once Kajal and I joined the Placecom at FMS, we realised that not just us but almost all the top b-schools were using primitive tools to handle the most critical part of a b-schooler’s journey, i.e. campus placements. I wanted to challenge the status quo even after being told repeatedly not to play around with well-established processes. Digitising placements only for FMS during my term wasn’t an easy task; organising it for the entire nation will definitely be difficult, but the need of the hour”. Vidyarthi and Kajal were members of the Placement Committee at FMS until very recently (2015).
I gather that Reculta aims to be the one-stop solution for all the placements related activities across campuses. A solution that is not just aimed at making the life of all its stakeholders easier but also adding a lot of value by providing them analytics to make smarter decisions. But campuses already have internal systems for all of that, I say (coming from a top b-school, I always assumed we had the best possible systems)
“Every piece of information that a student places on his/her CV is a data point. If we aren’t capturing and analysing that data, we are essentially flying blind. In a space as critical as campus placements, where every shortlist, every offer is hard fought for, it’s amazing how minimal is the effort given to capturing and organising this data. The waste of such valuable data is criminal. And we want to change all of that”, answers Kajal. You can see that they really mean it when they say they want to revolutionize this space from the passion of which they speak. And with final placements not so far away, I hope they do it soon (at least before our campus placements start, thinks the selfish me). I wish them the very best for their journey. Go Reculta!
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