Industrial Liason & Placement Office
Liaison Activities

The major objective of this activity is to facilitate co-operation between industries and the Polytechnic and the community in general by contacting industries, statutory bodies, institutions and other relevant bodies. The co-operation is facilitated by means of personal contacts and publications, bulletins and information pamphlet on institutional facilities and the possibilities and arrangements for their use. Among others, the office also has the following important operational liaison objectives.

To convince industry that there is a margin of benefit over cost in this type of relationship.

To assist in coordinating decentralized arrangement in the teaching departments and thus ensure adequate and appropriate supply of manpower to the nation.

To evolve adequate information that can assist the institution in its staff training and development programme

Guidance/Counseling Services

As a new service just embarked upon, the guidance and counseling services is gradually taking shape. The major objective of introducing the service is to assist students in adjusting to their courses of study and the choice of occupational career after graduation. Other Objectives of the services are:

To assist the students to identify themselves with the objectives of the institution in which they find themselves with a view to enabling them derive satisfaction from their college experience.

To create an environment in which students can face and explore their own feelings without fear, learn how to cope more effectively with decision-making, and examine their values and objectives within the overall value systems of the society.

Placement Services

Placement is generally concerned with securing practical training places for students as an integral part of their training in the institution. Assistance is also rendered to students for post graduate employment by arranging for on-the-campus interviews by various employers. Other objectives of the placement services are:

To establish cordial relationship on behalf of the Polytechnic with the employing public.

To assist students in implementing their choices of careers and invent and explore all avenues to establish means of dialogue between the employers and the institution.

To assist students with respect to the technique of job hunting for post graduate employment.