EMN
Dimapur, February 6
NIIT Limited, leading Global Talent Development Corporation, today announced to conduct the country’s largest IT Aptitude Test - the 10th National IT Aptitude Test (NITAT) - to enable students and graduates to ascertain their potential and aptitude for a career in the IT industry. NITAT 2014 will be simultaneously conducted by NIIT in over 200 cities nationwide on February 16. Students can find out the benefits of appearing in the 10th NITAT and register online by logging on to www.niit.com/nitat or by visiting the nearest NIIT centre. NITAT has reached out to more than 10, 50,000 students since inception towards meaningful careers in the fast evolving IT sector.
NITAT aims at fulfilling the need of IT industry by identifying a ready talent pool for immediate absorption by the industry.
Students who desire to appear for NITAT will receive an assessment score card and personalized career counselling from NIIT. NIIT will also award special recognition certificates to the top 30% merit list candidates and encourage their pursuit of a career in IT. Top 1000 candidates will also be awarded a congratulatory letter signed by NIIT Mind Champion Viswanathan Anand.
Additionally, high performers will get skill-up subsidy on NIIT programmes for acquiring technical skills to make them day-one industry ready.
NIIT’s pioneering initiative – NITAT- was introduced in 2004 to enable graduates and students pursuing their studies in engineering, arts, commerce and science streams to gauge their aptitude for a career in the IT sector, identify skills further required, if any, and thus systematically charter their career into the IT industry.
The test was designed scientifically to assess students and provide a relative ranking system, which helps them to identify their position amongst all test takers. In Nagaland, NITAT will be conducted at Dimapur and Kohima.
