Office of Corporate Linkages and Placements - OCLP

Concept Note
Project Academia - Industry Linkages (Corporate Networking)

Organisation Name University of Management and Technology

Department Name Office of Corporate Linkages and Placements ( OCLP )

Concerned Team 1. Khalid Naqi

2. Muhammad Omer Imran
3. Sannan Ahmad
4. Wasif Islam Sheikh
5. Abdul Moeed Malik

Target Industry  Hospitals

 Medical Centres
 Pharmaceutical Companies
 International NGO's (Health and Nutrition)
 Engineering industries
 IT and SMEs
 Business groups and companies

Problem
At this time of pandemic crisis, COVID 19, we are driving towards the “Way out Strategy” that will
help us steer the continuous planning towards achieving the target/ goals of year 2020.

Target Area
Pre-COVID19 Pandemic state lockdown, our strategy was to domain wise targe the above mentioned
industry and we were successfully steering 3 to 4 meetings a day. We were deriving the maximum
output and valuable deliverables.

Goals/ Objective
Academia - Industry Linkages (Collaboration Potentials)

Outcomes

 Employer Portal Registration - Placement Leads

 UMT Consulting
 Lead generation
 Joint Collaborations- Research and development
 Invitations to Academic Conferences/ Events and Mega Fairs at UMT
 Board of Studies Lead
 Recruitment Drives
 Panel Discussions

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 Office of Corporate Linkages and Placements - OCLP
 MoU's
 Brand Projections at UMT
 Seminar/ Sessions/Awareness Camps at UMT
 Maintaining current and future UMT & Corporate relationships
 Learning about industries insights and UMT’s feedback

Approach

Stage Particulars Details

Stage 1 Explore  Will explore and review the existing targeted industry
 Keeping in touch with them through all mediums of
communication e.g SMS , Emails, Phone calls etc.
 Listing down the Agenda points of collaborations and
reviewing the execution plan once back to office like
organizing the recruitment drives, sessions, panel
discussion , camps etc.

Stage 2 Approach  Using the IKIGAI approach

 More meetings a day
 More follow up
 More research on industry and specific collaboration
 Improved and affirmative Academia Industry Linkages

Stage 3 Assumptions  Economic Crisis

 Rebuilding the momentum
 Hesitate to meet/Non interest
 More concerned of business and least concern of CSR
 Social Distancing Measures

Stage 4 Way out Strategy  Visual Meetings

 Soft Calls, Video Calls, assuring the Social Distancing
approach
 Emails follow-up
 Through Phone Calls
 SMS and Social Media

Conclusion
At OCLP we believe in fostering the long term relations between Academia and Industry. Our main
focus would be staying in touch with current connections and strategizing the execution plan once
back in the office. Concerned team will be staying in touch with all connections through phone calls,
emails, sms, video calls etc. Also Research Analyst will be working towards creating the lists of
Industries- targeting the school wise collaborations.

At this time of crisis, we should support each other and prays to Almighty Allah for his blessings for
the whole Globe. ( Ameen )!