What Career Development Centre - IIT Palakkad does

The Career Development Centre (CDC) is the placement and internship facilitation cell of the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad (IIT Palakkad), a public technical university established in 2015 under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 as an Institute of National Importance. The CDC connects IIT Palakkad students with employers for full-time placements and internships, coordinating on-campus recruitment drives that encompass company registration, student profile management, testing, interviews, and offer management. It serves two principal constituencies: students seeking career opportunities at a premier engineering institution, and recruiting companies seeking structured access to IIT-trained talent. The CDC publishes annual placement reports (from 2018) and internship reports (from 2017-2018), runs industry expert sessions and outreach programmes, and participates in cross-IIT coordination through the All IITs' Placement Committee (AIPC).

The CDC's product surface comprises Placement Services and Internship Services as core offerings, supplemented by documentation resources (CDC Brochure / AIPC Guideline, Placement and Internship Policy) and reporting services (Placement Reports, Internship Reports). The technology platform is a Drupal CMS-based web portal at cdc.iitpkd.ac.in that manages student profiles, company registrations, placement procedures, and news dissemination. The recruiter base spans approximately 35+ named organisations across enterprise technology (Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Texas Instruments, MathWorks, Sprinklr, Arista Networks, Trimble), IT services (TCS, Capgemini, Virtusa, UST, Soroco, Perceptive Analytics), banking and financial services (ICICI Bank, Maybank), conglomerates (Tata Group, L&T, GE), automotive and manufacturing (Maruti Suzuki, Daikin, Titan, Timken, Wabtec, Toshiba), and consumer / emerging-tech (Ola, Paytm, FourKites, Indeed, Ninja Cart), with public-sector engagement via IGCAR.

The CDC does not generate commercial revenue. As a department within a government-funded public institution, it provides placement and internship facilitation free of charge to both students and recruiting companies, operating under the supervision of IIT Palakkad's Director (Prof. A. Seshadri Sekhar) and Board of Governors, with a Placement Professor-in-Charge (Dr. Manas Kumar Jena) leading day-to-day operations. Funding flows through the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and the entity has approximately 40 staff based at IIT Palakkad's Nila Campus in Palakkad, Kerala.

Name

Career Development Centre - IIT Palakkad

Legal name

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad

Website

https://cdc.iitpkd.ac.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Career Development Centre is IIT Palakkad's placement and internship cell. It facilitates on-campus recruitment connecting engineering students with employers via a Drupal-based portal, operating as a free institutional service within the public Indian Institute of Technology's academic mission.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Palakkad

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Institutional Service: As a government-funded educational institution, the CDC does not generate commercial revenue. It provides placement and internship facilitation services free of charge to students and recruiting companies as part of IIT Palakkad's academic support functions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Career Development Centre (CDC) at IIT Palakkad facilitates campus placement and internship opportunities for students by coordinating on-campus recruitment drives, employer registrations, tests, interviews, and offer management. It serves as the official liaison between IIT Palakkad students and recruiting companies, providing structured placement and internship procedures in alignment with AIPC standards. All services are provided free of charge as part of the institute's academic support functions.

Product overview

Career Development Centre - IIT Palakkad operates as a university placement and internship portal for the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad. It provides a unified platform offering placement services, internship facilitation, and career development support to connect students with employers. The core offerings include Placement Services and Internship Services as the primary functions, supplemented by documentation resources (CDC Brochure/AIPC Guideline, Placement Policy, Internship Policy) and reporting services (Placement Reports, Internship Reports) that document outcomes and statistics from academic years 2017-2018 through 2023.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Placement Services
• Internship Services

Named customers35 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (Department of Atomic Energy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIGCAR conducted an outreach programme on career opportunities for IIT Palakkad students, providing exposure to career paths in atomic energy research and development.
• AIPC (All IITs' Placement Committee)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIIT Palakkad participates in the All IITs' Placement Committee (AIPC), a unified placement coordination body across all Indian Institutes of Technology for standardized placement procedures.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IIT Kharagpur Career Development Centre: Career Development Centre of IIT Kharagpur, the first IIT established. Functions similarly to coordinate campus placements and internships across a large multi-disciplinary student base, with the same IIT branding and AIPC participation.
• IIT Bombay Career Services: Career services and placement office of IIT Bombay, India's flagship IIT. Operates a near-identical model of campus placement, internship facilitation, and industry-academia interface, with an overlapping recruiter base that includes Microsoft, Amazon, and Texas Instruments.
• IISc Bangalore Career Counselling and Placement Unit: Career services office of the Indian Institute of Science, India's premier research institution. Comparable in facilitating campus recruitment for science and engineering graduate students, including PhD and M.Tech talent.
• IIT Kanpur Placement Office: Career services office of IIT Kanpur, a founding IIT. Comparable in providing campus recruitment and internship facilitation for engineering and science students, with shared recruiter relationships and AIPC membership.
• IIT Guwahati Career Development Centre: Career Development Centre of IIT Guwahati, comparable to IIT Palakkad as a second-generation IIT with similar placement structure, recruiter base, and AIPC participation for engineering graduates.
• BITS Pilani Practice School and Placement Division: Placement division of BITS Pilani, a premier private Indian engineering institution. Comparable as a non-IIT but elite Indian technical school with similar recruiter base, campus placement model, and the same Practice School internship structure.
• IIT Roorkee Career Services: Career services office of IIT Roorkee, one of the legacy IITs. Similar campus placement and internship facilitation model for engineering students with the same AIPC framework and recruiter base.
• IIT Madras Career Development Centre: Career Development Centre of IIT Madras, consistently India's top-ranked IIT. Most directly comparable to IIT Palakkad's CDC by name, function, and operational model, running the same campus placement and internship facilitation services across engineering and science disciplines.
• IIT Delhi Placement Office: Career services and placement office of IIT Delhi, one of the founding IITs. Runs parallel campus placement and internship programs with similar recruiter base, AIPC coordination, and standardized procedures.

Broad incumbents

• NIT Trichy Placement and Training Office: Placement office of NIT Trichy, a top National Institute of Technology. Comparable as a premier Indian technical institution placement cell with similar campus recruitment model, though with somewhat lower recruiter pull and brand recognition than the IITs.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/career-development-centre-iit-palakkad

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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