Career fair

Siliguri, May 17: Several universities ad colleges from across the country will set up stalls at career fairs that will be organised in Gangtok, Darjeeling and Siliguri by SAPE Events and Media Private Limited in association with The Telegraph Careergraph next week. This is the first time that the fair is being held in Gangtok and Darjeeling and the 10th year that the event is being organised in Siliguri. “This year, we will be organising the 10th career fair in Siliguri. We will be holding the fairs in Gangtok and Darjeeling for the first time this year,” said Sanjay Thapa, the managing director of SAPE Events and Media Private Limited, a Calcutta-based event management firm. The career fair in Gangtok will be organised on May 20 at Chintan Bhawan, in Darjeeling, it will be held at the Gymkhana Club on May 22 and in Siliguri, the event would take place at the City Garden on Sevoke Road on May 24 and 25. Seventy-five institutions will set up stalls in the Siliguri fair and 50 each in Gangtok and Darjeeling. Some of the institutions are Lovely Professional University, Amity University and Punjab Technical University. “We will provide guidance on a whole gamut of traditional and non-conventional courses like medicine, engineering, law, management, hospitality management, tourism, film technology, graphic designing, mass communication, interior designing, aviation and fashion designing. Students will get to know about the content, fee-structure and career prospects of courses they want to take up,” Thapa said.