How the Parikshak Growth Partner Program Can Fix India’s Placement Problem
Aug 25, 2025
Across India’s 50,000+ colleges, the placement story is familiar, and frustrating. Even in 2024–25, when India is producing more engineers and graduates than ever before, placement rates remain stubbornly low, especially in tier-2 and tier-3 campuses.
According to industry reports, less than 20% of graduating engineers land quality jobs directly through campus recruitment. Many more either take roles unrelated to their field, remain unemployed for months, or enter the workforce underpaid and underprepared.
The reasons are well known:
Companies recruit from a narrow band of top-tier institutions.
Students often struggle to perform in interviews despite strong academics.
Placement preparation begins too late, sometimes just weeks before recruiters arrive.
This isn’t just a student problem. It’s a national talent inefficiency.
Where Placements Break Down
The gap isn’t only about skills, it’s about readiness.
Practice deficit: Most students have never done a structured mock interview or taken a role-specific assessment before facing an actual recruiter.
Signal gap: Without measurable readiness signals, employers hesitate to visit certain campuses or make offers.
Access gap: Many students don’t even know where to find high-quality preparation tools until it’s too late.
That’s where the Growth Partner Program (GPP) comes in.
What is the Growth Partner Program?
The Parikshak Growth Partner Program is a student-led bridge between your campus and Parikshak.ai’s AI-native hiring platform.
Growth Partners are select students trained by our team to:
Onboard peers onto Parikshak.ai so they can access AI-powered mock interviews, coding tests, and job readiness assessments.
Guide students through the platform’s tools so they can identify skill gaps early and improve before real interviews.
Collect feedback from peers about their preparation experience, helping us fine-tune tools for maximum impact.
In short: Growth Partners don’t replace placement cells, they make them more effective by ensuring students are recruiter-ready well before placement season.
How This Can Change the National Placement Story
By creating a distributed network of Growth Partners across 500+ campuses, we can:
Level the playing field for tier-2 and tier-3 students by giving them the same preparation tools as top-tier campuses.
Increase placement readiness rates, students using Parikshak.ai can measure and improve their performance months before recruiters arrive.
Expand recruiter confidence, when companies see a campus producing consistently well-prepared candidates, they’re more likely to visit.
Boost placement quality, readiness doesn’t just increase the number of offers, it improves the relevance and package of those offers.
Why Student-led Works Best
Placement cells have limited bandwidth, especially in larger colleges. A Growth Partner works from within the student community:
They know how to motivate peers.
They understand the local academic environment.
They create a culture where practice before the big day becomes the norm.
This is not a one-season campaign, it’s a year-round readiness movement.
The Vision: From Campus to Career
Imagine this at a national scale:
10,000+ students trained in AI-powered interview readiness every month.
Hundreds of campuses consistently improving their placement stats.
Recruiters expanding reach beyond a handful of elite institutions.
That’s what GPP is designed to deliver, a predictable, measurable improvement in campus placements across India.
The Ask
If you’re:
A student leader, apply to become a Growth Partner and bring Parikshak.ai to your campus.
A placement officer, Onboard your college to GPP and equip your students with year-round preparation.
An employer, tap into our network of pre-assessed, recruiter-ready candidates from campuses you may have never visited before.
We believe the placement crisis in India isn’t a lack of talent, it’s a lack of readiness and access. The Growth Partner Program fixes that.