Puttur : Training and Placement Cell and Internal Quality Assurance Cell of St Philomena College ,Puttur in association with OPTUM ( XL Health ) organized a Campus Recruitment Drive - 2022. Inaugurating the program,  Orville James D’ Souza, Vice President India Operations of OPTUM, said, the company is expanding and in differner states Gujarat, Tamilnadu , Kerala its branches are working and also now operating from Bangalore which is the fourth biggest IT hub. The company is not recruiting the talents only from cities, and its endeavor of Campus Recruitment in semi urban area is an intention to educate the rural students with regard to Medical Coding which is the emerging field. We have been visiting more than twenty Campuses in Karnataka he said.

Principal of the College Rev. Dr Antony Prakash Monteiro, President of the program said, the students have to involve themselves in understanding the concept of learning to find a better position in life by acquiring necessary skills like communicative and practical skills along with problem solving skills. The qualities like confidence, commonsense, reasoning and sensitivity are the necessary skills to make the complete personality which are essential to swim in the currents of competitive world which everyone has to face.

Clement Joel Sequeira, Head, Talent Acquisition,  Bhasker Mandlem ,Segment Leader and Senior Manager – Medical Coding , Mischelle Pinto , Senior Recruitment Specialist enumerated the various stages of company recruitment. One twenty students have participated in the campus recruitment program.

Dr Radhakrishna Gowda, HoD of BBA and the Convener of the Training and Placement Cell, welcomed and gave introductory remarks.  Bhagyashree Rai P, III B.A student rendered prayer. Lt Johnson David Sequeira, HoD Sociaology proposed vote of thanks.  Nancy Laveena Pinto, Assistant Professor, Dept of Social Work compered the programme.