Jamshedpur, March 18: Eleven final year students of Jamshedpur Women’s College have been shortlisted for jobs with the HSBC Bank.

The students fared well in an interview conducted by Ma Foi, a multinational human resource consultancy firm, on the college campus yesterday.

Sources in the college said it was for the first time that an organisation visited a non-professional college in the city to recruit final year graduation students.

College principal Shukla Mohanty said a three-member team led by city centre head of Ma Foi, Deepak Singh, visited the campus on March 17.

Altogether 34 students had appeared for the preliminary round of recruitment process, of which 11 were shortlisted after two rounds of test, Mohanty said.

According to Singh, the screening process was divided into two rounds.

In the first phase, the main emphasis was on sense of self-presentation and communication skill of the candidates.

This was followed by an aptitude test of the aspirants, he said.

“We were looking for candidates who fit the bill for attending calls at the HSBC Bank call centres at Hyderabad, Bangalore and Vishakapatanam. Since the candidates were final year student, the aptitude test was necessary,” he said.

In the final stage, all the 11 successful candidates were called for a live role test in which they were made to interact directly with executives of HSBC Bank on telephone, Singh said.

He hinted that all the successful candidates, who join the job in any of the three centres, will have one of the best pay packages in the industry.

“It will be somewhere around Rs 9,000 per month,” he added.

“We are impressed by the knowledge and skill of the candidates. They have excellent communication skills and extraordinary exposure, which is not expected of in students from a city like Jamshedpur,” Singh said.

In the next phase, the company plans to visit some other colleges, including the Graduate School College for Women and Karim City College.

Very soon a team will visit some of the colleges in Ranchi, including St Xavier and Ranchi Women’s College.

R Neela, a B.Com final year student of Women’s College, who cleared the campus interview said she had never dreamt that a company would visit the college for recruitment.

“Though I was hesitant in the beginning, after the first phase of screening, everything went on smoothly,” said Neela, adding “the interview has helped me understand the real situation.”