Placement fair for retired IAF personnel

A placement fair will be held next month in Barrackpore near here for retired IAF personnel, including pilots, for recruitment by airlines and business associations.
“A placement cell has been opened at Indian Air Force’s Barrackpore premises. The officers are contacting civil airline companies, business associations like CII to invite prospective recruiters,” the Army’s Eastern Command spokesperson Group Captain R K Das said.
With IAF pilots and other engineers, the fair is expected to attract several civil airline companies.
Group Captain Das said all national civil airline companies have been invited.
All national airline companies participated in last year’s placement fair held in New Delhi. “Sixty pilots due to retire in a week were recruited right at the fair ground,” Das said.
The two-day career fair for the IAF veterans will begin on May 17. Nearly 10,000 retired or to retire personnel would participate in the fair.
According to the defence spokesperson, apart from the civilian airline sector, they could be absorbed in the fields of human resource management, administration, housekeeping, education, stores management, driving, security, catering, fire-fighting, legal services, hospital management and metrology.
Every year nearly 5000 multi-skilled personnel retire from the service after completing their terms of engagement in the age group of 35-54 years.
22/04/08 PTI/Deccan Herald

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