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By Natnipha Vimuktanon
Close to eight hundred job seekers last week attended AIT’s
largest ever single day on-campus Career Fair. All attendees hoped to
catch the eye of recruiters representing some of the Asian region’s
most prestigious employers.
In the increasingly competitive global marketplace for education, the
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is determined to ensure its long
term sustainability by reducing its headcount and overhead to below
current levels. Key to this will be implementing a cost and salary
structure that reflects market rates in Thailand, senior administration
officials say.
On 6 November 2008, a group of approximately twenty students from the
School of Management (SOM), led by Dr. Ilkka Kauranen,
visited the Thailand Science Park and National Science and Technology
Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Science and Technology.
From left, Dr. Nitin Afzulpurkar,
Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai,
Mrs. Tarita Mehendale, Mr. Adesh Gaekwad and Dr. Pritam K.
Shrestha.
Mrs. Tarita Mehendale, Founder Secretary and Chairperson of Indira
Group of Institutes (IGI), India and Mr. Adesh Gaekwad, Executive
Director, Project and Public Relation Trustee visited AIT and met with
Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dean, School of Engineering and
Technology, Dr Nitin Afzulpurkar, Associate Dean, SET, Dr. Pritam K.
Shrestha, Head-ERCO and Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal, Program Officer,
ERCO.
Mrs.
· Charoen Pokphand Group, Asia’s leading conglomerate with businesses and affiliates operating within the agribusiness, retail and telecommunications industries. What are they looking for? Graduates with electrical, environment, mechanical, industrial and safety engineering and business management backgrounds having good business perspective and problem-solving capabilities.
Worried with what’s happening around - the milk scare; the US financial crisis; the political demonstrations; inflation? Do not fret…beyond the uncertainties of the times, employers are out there and they are eyeing to hire AIT’s excellent students and graduates.
AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust visited
the NanoThailand
Symposium 2008 with Vice President for Research, Prof. S. K.
Rakshit. Prof. Vilas Wuwongse, Vice President for External Relations
also
visited the exhibition on the morning of the November 6th.
The Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) will hold the Third GMSARN International Conference 2008 on "Sustainable Development: Issues and Prospects for the Greater Mekong Subregion", 12-14 November 2008 at Kunming, China.