{"id":1022595,"date":"2026-07-21T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022595"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:23:28","slug":"its-no-country-for-freshers-as-it-firms-revisit-campus-hiring-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/its-no-country-for-freshers-as-it-firms-revisit-campus-hiring-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no country for freshers as IT firms revisit campus hiring playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no country for freshers.<\/p>\n<p>Campus offers are being delayed, onboarding schedules are being pushed back, and in some cases, roles are quietly withdrawn. Joining dates are increasingly tied to shifting business demand, leaving thousands of engineering graduates waiting months\u2014sometimes over a year\u2014for jobs they once assumed were guaranteed. For decades, a campus offer from an IT company came with an unwritten promise: graduate, join training and begin work. That certainty is beginning to disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no country for freshers. Campus offers are being delayed, onboarding schedules are being pushed back, and in some cases, roles are quietly withdrawn. Joining dates are increasingly tied to shifting business demand, leaving thousands of engineering graduates waiting months\u2014sometimes over a year\u2014for jobs they once assumed were guaranteed. For decades, a campus offer from an IT company came with an unwritten promise: graduate, join training and begin work. That certainty is beginning to disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022596,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022595\/revisions\/1022596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}