Placement pipelines: what employers actually screen for
- Career Development Unit
- 9 min read
Our career unit interviews hiring managers each term to keep placement guidance honest. The consistent message: working projects beat buzzwords, and communication in interviews matters as much as technical depth.
Employers want readable portfolios — repos with setup instructions, sensible commits, and concise README narratives. They also watch how candidates explain trade-offs, not whether they memorised a sorting trick under pressure.
IJSE workshops mirror those screens: mock technical conversations, portfolio clinics, and pairing exercises that surface collaboration style early.
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