New Delhi, May 31, 2006: Reinforcing its commitment to the students, the Global Learning Solutions Company , Aptech Ltd. has announced the Year 2006 as the “Year of Placements” for all its centres world-wide. Aptech's various education brands such as Aptech Computer Education, Arena Multimedia & SSi Education in India as well as internationally, have an enhanced placement focus this year.

Under this, various initiatives like workshops viz. ‘TechWize' - cutting-edge technology inputs and ‘CareerWize' - behavioural skills inputs, are being conducted all across. The students have the advantage of Campus Recruitment Programs, Placement Weeks, Job Fairs, eNewsletters and Personal monitoring, grooming and placement of each student. Under the Year of Placements, the goal is to achieve 100% placements.

This year, to add value and increase the employability of the students, Aptech has conducted close to 100 CareerWize workshops & over 50 TechWize workshops across the country benefiting 5000+ students. More than 50 campus recruitment programs have been conducted till date in 2006. This is in addition to the off campus programs that are routinely conducted by the client organizations.

Aptech has been very active in it's placement activity all through and has placed students in prominent organizations. 72% of Aptech students were placed in pure technical roles in 2005. Aptech Computer Education & SSI students got opportunities in areas like Programming, Training, Customer Support, Technical Support, System Administration and Web Designing, whilst Arena students were placed as Animators, AV Editors, Graphic Designers, Web Designers, Game Designers, Content Developers, Compositors and Visualizers.

Accenture, Birlasoft Technologies, CGI Information Systems, Cognizant Technology Solutions, EDS, HCL Comnet Ltd, HCL Technologies, HSBC Software Ltd, IBM Global Services, Iflex Infosolutions, Infosys Technologies, Mahindra British Telecom, Mphasis, Oracle Corporation, PCS Technologies, Polaris Software Lab, Satyam Computers, Sonata Software, TCS & Wipro Technologies are some of the organizations which have absorbed students from Aptech & SSi.

Arena students have been placed in organizations like Asianet Satellite Communications, 123greetings.com, Balaji Tele Films, Crest Communications, Datamatics, Dataquest, ETV, India TV, Macmillan (I) Ltd, Mudra Communications, NDTV, Paprikas, Animation Studio, Paradox Studio, Paxar India Pvt. Ltd, Prime Focus Ltd, Rhythm & Hues, Sify, Star TV, Tata Interactive Systems, Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd & Zee Telefilms.

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