A unique induction program for Young Engineering Graduates 

126 recruits in 75-day induction module designed and conducted by experts

New Delhi, 28July, 2011: Alstom India has announced the commencement of a unique induction program –Alstom Ki Pathshala - for its fresh batch of 126 Young Engineering Graduates (YEG). Started in the first week of July 2011, the Young Engineering Graduates program has been specially designed by an in-house panel of 14 members and will run for a period of 75 days. The program aims to promote a new generation of technical workforce to build a talent pool and future leaderships within the organization. 

Commenting on the unique initiative, Mr. Sunand Sharma, Country President, Alstom India, said, “At Alstom, our people are our most valuable assets. Our Young Engineering Graduates program will further orient the new employees and help to cater to the growing demand of skilled manpower. It has been designed to focus on talents from the start to ensure a holistic and continuous success of the company. It will aim to instill a work culture that empowers, innovates and promotes technical excellence in whatever we do.”

The YEG program has been designed with an objective to bring out the best of our Values of Trust, Team and Action, which are at the core of all business activities at Alstom. The pedagogy used during this program is through active experimentation, feedback and reinforcement of learning. There will be special briefing sessions by top management as well as training sessions by experts on topics such as business etiquettes, Tools and Processes, Power Plant Familiarization etc to help each one of them to build strong competencies for a smooth transition from academia to the industry. 

Throughout the program, the participants will have an opportunity to innovate and find working solutions to problems faced in professional life with the help of experiential exercises such as T-Shirt painting workshop, Innovations and CSR workshop, Offsite, team-building exercise etc. 

A total of 1,500 students from across 40 renowned engineering colleges in India went through the 45-day‘on-campus’ recruitment procedure. The students were recruited by an expert panel of 48 members from across various businesses in Alstom. A special team did the rounds of renowned colleges, even stationed themselves in the campuses, to ensure consistency and need-based recruitment. Besides this, a strict screening criterion was followed to tap the best talent in the institutes, including Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Vellore Institute of Technology and National Power Training Institute at Durgapur.

Other key highlights of the Alstom Ki Pathshala Induction program are:

- Alstom University Tube workshop is a creativity workshop designed around learning about the interpersonal competencies, using movie-making as the vehicle. The participants will focus on researching and self-discovering the nuances of situations, problems they lead to and finding solutions.

- Alstom Olympics a two day program that engages and tests the participant's resilience, drive and optimism through various learning tools / games.

- CSR and Innovation Workshop is a 48 hour non-stop creative journey where the participants will understand how Alstom, as an organization, lends itself to the outside world. The participants will have an opportunity to innovate and find working solutions to selected problems faced by society and suggest implemental solutions.

- Ice-Breaker Session - Connect 101 - Initiates the participants to the Alstom values of trust, team and action through various experiential learning in the context of self, others and Alstom.

About Alstom in India 

ALSTOM is a global leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure. Present in India since 1911, ALSTOM has strong capabilities in engineering, manufacturing, project management and supply of products and solutions for infrastructure. With 2 R&D centres: Alstom Infosys R&D Centre in Bengaluru, Hydro Global Technology Centre in Vadodara and six manufacturing units dedicated to: Hydro in Vadodara, Boilers in Durgapur and Shahabad, Steam turbines in Mundra (upcoming) and Transport at Coimbatore and SriCity (upcoming), Alstom's presence cuts across the length and breadth of India.

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