Where students and fresh graduates can actually find a first job: portals, hiring programmes and official registration pages, with eligibility and warnings.
Pick the situation closest to yours. Each page explains why those options suit it.
Grouped by what each one is built for. Order within a group is not a ranking.
Indian platform listing internships and fresher jobs, alongside paid courses, placement courses and online degrees.
Long-running Indian job portal aimed at fresh graduates, with job alerts, placement papers and interview prep.
Student platform for competitions, hackathons, quizzes, scholarships, internships and jobs, formerly called Dare2Compete.
Naukri.com's career platform built only for college students, with contests, aptitude tests and internship links.
AICTE's national internship portal under the Ministry of Education, listing government and industry internships.
Campus placement platform used by colleges and employers; students can also register individually.
Paid ability test by TCS iON whose score is accepted by TCS and other participating companies.
Cognizant's hiring and development programme for freshers, applied to via campus drives or Superset.
Wipro's careers section for early-career candidates, with job search and a talent network sign-up.
Accenture India's careers pages for students (internships) and early-career roles.
Coding practice and competition site where companies run branded coding events and hackathons.
Coding practice and contest platform widely used by companies for technical assessments.
Ministry of Labour and Employment portal for job search, career counselling and job fair information.
Government apprenticeship scheme portal where graduates and diploma holders register for paid on-the-job training.
Global professional network with job listings, company pages and recruiter search.
Indian job app and site covering fresher, part-time, work-from-home and local jobs across many cities.
Global job search engine with an India site that aggregates listings from employers and other sites.
Hiring marketplace focused on startups, where candidates build one profile and apply to startup roles.
Nothing matches that filter.
If you are still in college, internship-first sites and government internship portals give you experience before placement season. If you have already graduated, lean on job boards, employer careers pages and apprenticeship schemes. Using a student-only platform after graduation, or a lateral-hire board while in second year, wastes time. Pick two or three that fit where you are today and use them properly.
Mass-hiring programmes usually fix a degree type, a batch year and sometimes marks cut-offs. Read the official page for each programme and confirm your batch and degree are listed before preparing for weeks. If a third-party blog and the company page disagree, trust the company page. If neither states the rule clearly, write to the employer's official contact rather than guessing.
Applying to jobs is free on almost every genuine portal. What costs money is usually an add-on: premium memberships, courses, test prep, or paid assessments such as some versions of a qualifier test. Decide whether the add-on gives you something you cannot get free, and never treat a paid course as a substitute for applying directly.
Aggregators and Telegram channels repost drives quickly but often carry old dates or wrong eligibility. When you see a drive you like, open the employer's own careers page and apply there or through the link it gives. This also protects you from fake forms that collect your documents or ask for payment.
Applying for jobs is free on genuine portals, and government platforms like NCS and the AICTE internship portal state clearly that they charge nothing. Some private sites sell optional extras such as premium memberships, courses or paid tests. These are not required to apply. If anyone says you must pay just to be considered for a job, treat it as a warning sign.
The TCS iON National Qualifier Test listed on the TCS iON site is paid, with prices from Rs 599 to Rs 2,298 depending on the variant. Its score is valid for two years and is used by several companies, but it does not guarantee a job. TCS's own hiring drive pages could not be checked for this guide, so confirm the current process on TCS's official careers site.
Common signs are a request for money (registration, training, laptop or deposit), an offer without any interview, messages only over chat apps, and email from free mail domains instead of the company's own. Cognizant states it charges no fee at any stage. Check the offer on the company's official careers or fraud page, and report fraud on the national cyber crime helpline 1930.
Read the exact promise. Many courses offer 'placement assistance', which usually means access to openings or interview prep, not a guaranteed offer. Ask for the refund policy in writing and check whether the jobs they share are ones you could apply to free. Plenty of freshers get hired by applying directly and practising on free contests and mock tests.
Superset says anyone can register without their college being onboarded. Some employers, such as Cognizant for its GenC programme, link their application through Superset, so having an account can help. Campus-only drives run by a college for its own students will still be visible only to that college's students.