Career Development Cell, IIT Dharwad

What Career Development Cell, IIT Dharwad does

Career Development Cell (CDC) is the centralized placement and internship facilitation body of the Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IIT Dharwad), a government-funded public technical institute established in August 2016 under the mentorship of IIT Bombay by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. CDC operates as a student-driven organization that supports IIT Dharwad students across undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs in building career readiness, securing internships, and obtaining full-time placements. It serves a dual audience: an internal student population across ten academic departments, and an external pool of corporate recruiters seeking to hire IIT Dharwad talent.

CDC's core products are institutional services rather than commercial software. Its technical platform consists of a Student Portal for managing placement and internship processes, a Recruiter Portal with Job Notification Form (JNF) and Internship Notification Form (INF) submission workflows, a public Placement Statistics Dashboard, a careers-focused blog, and an events platform. The platform architecture is a standard web-based portal system hosted at cdc.iitdh.ac.in. CDC also organizes in-person engagement events such as HR Conclaves, career counseling sessions, and pre-placement talks, and publishes a recruiter-facing brochure with student insights.

The CDC operates on a non-commercial model. It does not have pricing, does not generate independent revenue, and does not raise venture funding. Its operations are funded through institutional budgets of IIT Dharwad, which is itself funded by the Government of India. Headcount is reported at 33 personnel, with faculty-level leadership comprising Prof. Satyapriya Gupta (Chairman), Prof. Aniket Kataware (Vice Chairman), and Director Venkappayya R Desai. The CDC's customer base is structurally bifurcated: an internal captive student population and an external distributed recruiter base. The institute is currently situated at a 135-acre transit campus at WALMI, with a permanent campus allocated at Chikkamalligawad village by the Karnataka Government.

Name

Career Development Cell, IIT Dharwad

Legal name

Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad

Website

https://cdc.iitdh.ac.in

Company type

Public

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Career Development Cell (CDC) is the student-driven placement and internship facilitation body of IIT Dharwad, a government-funded public technical institute. It operates Student and Recruiter Portals, organizes HR Conclaves, and connects students across ten academic departments with corporate employers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dharwad

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Career Development Cell (CDC) at IIT Dharwad is a student-driven body that supports students in shaping and managing their careers by facilitating placements, internships, and entrepreneurship opportunities. It connects IIT Dharwad students with recruiters through dedicated student and recruiter portals, JNF/INF submission processes, pre-placement talks, HR Conclaves, and career counseling sessions, while publishing placement statistics to support hiring decisions.

Product overview

The Career Development Cell (CDC) at IIT Dharwad operates as a student-driven body that functions as a unified career services platform rather than a modular software product. It provides an integrated ecosystem of services including a Student Portal for managing placements and internships, recruiter-facing JNF/INF submission facilities, placement statistics tracking, and career development content through blog posts and events. The platform serves the dual purpose of supporting students in career planning while enabling recruiters to connect with talent from IIT Dharwad's engineering and science programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Placement Services Facilitates recruitment drives and placement activities connecting IIT Dharwad students with employers for full-time employment opportunities, coordinated via the Student Portal and Recruiter Portal, with recruiter submissions via JNF forms.
• Internship Services Manages internship opportunities and recruitment for pre-final year students at IIT Dharwad, accepting recruiter internship openings through INF forms and driving internship recruitment through CDC events and outreach.
• Student Portal A dedicated online portal for IIT Dharwad students to access placement opportunities, internship listings, entrepreneurship support, and career development resources.
• JNF/INF Portal Job Notification Form (JNF) and Internship Notification Form (INF) platform enabling recruiters to submit job and internship openings to IIT Dharwad students.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IIT BombaycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2016IIT Dharwad was established under the mentorship of IIT Bombay as one of the third generation (3-G) IITs, under the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India (GoI).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IIT Bombay Placement Cell: The career services and placement body of IIT Bombay, the mentor institution for IIT Dharwad. Operates the same model of recruiter engagement, JNF-style job notification portals, and HR conclaves for a top-tier IIT student base.
• IIT Madras Office of Career Services: Centralized placement and internship office of IIT Madras. Same institutional model (premier IIT, government-funded) with structured recruiter portal and placement processes analogous to IIT Dharwad's CDC.
• IIT Delhi Placement Cell: Career services cell of IIT Delhi, a peer 3-G / older IIT placement office. Directly comparable in scope (B.Tech, M.Tech, PhD students) and the same event-driven recruiter engagement model.
• IIT Roorkee Placement Cell: Placement cell of IIT Roorkee, another older IIT with a similar career services mandate covering B.Tech, M.Tech, and PhD students across multiple departments.
• IISc Bangalore Office of Career Counselling and Placement (OCCP): Career services body of the Indian Institute of Science, a peer government-funded premier research institution with a comparable recruiter-driven placement mandate and Karnataka geographic footprint.
• IIT Kharagpur Career Development Centre: IIT Kharagpur's dedicated career services centre serving one of the largest and most diverse IIT student bodies. Comparable in offering JNF/INF portals, recruiter events, and placement statistics.
• IIT Kanpur Placement Office: Placement office of IIT Kanpur, a top-tier IIT with an analogous role in facilitating internships, JNFs, and full-time placements for engineering and science students.

Emerging players

• Internshala: India's largest internship and online training platform. Comparable because it directly competes with the CDC's internship placement function by aggregating student-employer matches at a national scale.

Broad incumbents

• HirePro: A campus hiring automation platform widely used by Indian engineering colleges for end-to-end placement, assessment, and recruitment workflows. Overlaps with the CDC's portal-based recruitment facilitation.
• Handshake: A leading US campus recruiting platform connecting students, universities, and employers for jobs and internships. Thematically comparable to the CDC's student-recruiter portal model, though operating in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cdciitdharwad

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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