Career Quips: IOCL Recruitment 2012 (Engineers) Notification, Eligibility & Form

IOCL Recruitment 2012 Engineers Notification Eligibility Forms

IOCL Recruitment Notification 2012 for 225 Engineers has come out recently and the process for online submission of the form is set to start from 2nd January, 2012. Last date to apply online for IOCL Engineer Recruitment 2012 is 11th February 2012. This is an IOCL opening for freshers and if you are a BE/B. Tech in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Computer Science & IT, Instrumentation or Metallurgical Engineering, you can apply for this IOCL job, which has been named as Graduate Apprentice Engineer (GAE), as you would be under apprenticeship/training for 1-year.

You can click here to download IOCL Recruitment Notification 2012 for Engineers.

This blog article of mine touches upon the salient points in the notification to help you apply for the same – it also archives the info for future i.e. say for IOCL Recruitment 2013/2014. Towards the end of the article, you would find some prep materials for IOCL GD Topics/Interview questions.

But before that, a small synopsis on IOCL as an organisation since you should know about the organisation in which you are interested to work in.

IOCL as an organisation:
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), is one among the only five Maharatna company - the highest rating for Indian PSUs. It is the highest ranked Indian Company with 98th position in the prestigious ‘Fortune Global 500' list of companies. IOCL is recognized as one of the ‘Best Employers in India’ by the Great Place to Work Institute (GPW), India.

It is the 18th largest petroleum company in the world - owning 10 of 20 Indian refineries and selling more than 48% of total petroleum product sold in the country. It is India's largest commercial enterprise, with a sales turnover of Rs. 3,28,744 crore and profits of Rs. 7445 crore.

Its geographical spread includes 19,463 retail outlets and 5456 LPG distributor, which caters to more than 56.8 million households throughout India. It has international presence with subsidiaries in Sri Lanka, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), besides exporting products to countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam, Norway, Oman etc.

More about IOCL can be found from this About us page.

List of disciplines for IOCL Engineers Recruitment 2012:

List of seven engineering disciplines for which these jobs in IOCL have been notified are as follows:

Civil Engineering (excluding Construction/ Transportation Engineering).

Chemical Engineering (including Petrochemicals Engineering).

Computer Science & Information Technology.

Electrical Engineering (including Electrical & Electronics engineering but excluding Electrical & Communication/ Telecommunication engineering).

Instrumentation Engineering (Including Electronics & Instrumentation engineering but excluding Electronics & Communication engineering/ Telecommunication engineering).

Mechanical Engineering (excluding Production/ Manufacturing/ Industrial Engineering).

Metallurgical Engineering.

You should know that only disciplines as named above would be considered for employment – and you should appear in GATE 2012 for that specific discipline (I.E. CE/CH/CS/EE/IN/ME/MT).

Eligibility for IOCL Graduate Engineer Recruitment:

Age Eligibility: Max 26 years as on 30th June 2012. (Relaxations exists as per Govt. rule).

Academic Qualification Eligibility: Minimum 65% marks in BE/ B.Tech for General/OBC category and just pass mark for SC/ST/PD from a recognized Indian Institute/University.

Final year students may also apply but you have to submit your final mark sheet by 31st August 2012.

In addition to above, you must have already applied for GATE 2012, last date for which was over on 21st October, 2011. You should also appear in the same, which is scheduled to be held on 12th February 2012 as IOCL would short list candidates for GD/Interview based on GATE 2012 core.

Salary for IOCL Graduate Engineer Trainees:

IOCL is offering a consolidated stipend of Rs.35,000/- per month during the 1-year apprenticeship/training period. Upon the successful completion of the same, you will be absorbed as engineers/officers with the basic pay of Rs.24900/-per month in addition to which you will be entitled to DA and other allowances/perks. CTC for an IOCL engineer/officer is approx. Rs. 9 lakh per annum.

Selection process for IOCL Graduate Engineer Trainees:

As said above, IOCL would short list the candidates for GD/Interview based on GATE 2012 core. IOCL itself will get the GATE-2012 scores directly from GATE authorities; you do not have to send it to them.

So GD & Interview are the only two stages which will be conducted by IOCL for selecting Graduate ET.

IOCL Recruitment 2012 GD/Interview Dates:

IOCL notification is silent about the date on which GD/Interview would be held, as they would shortlist the candidates only after GATE 2012 result is declared on 15th March, 2012. Therefore, you can expect the call letter only after this date – may be in the last week of March or first week of April, 2012.

IOCL Recruitment 2012 Online form:

You have to apply only online for IOCL GAE recruitment. There is no offline form.

Click here to find the Online form for IOCL Recruitment 2012 for Engineers.

(To be available only in between 2nd January to 11th February 2012).

How to apply online has been given in detail in the recruitment notification.

How to prepare for IOCL GD Topics/Interview Questions:

As the selection process for IOCL Graduate Engineers post-GATE consists of only GD/Interview, you have to focus on these two areas alone. This blog has some excellent prep materials on GD & Interview to help your prepare for the IOCL recruitment.

For Interview, click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the requirements an interviewer looks for in you. It also gives you an interesting YouTube video telling you how you can also analyze an interviewer and hence be prepared for it. And than it gives you a list of 99 interview questions, which are most repeated in every other interview! These questions helps you prepare yourself. In addition, since questions about how much you know about IOCL as an organisation may be asked in the interview, please go through the About us page of IOCL.

Similarly for GD, click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the essential qualities you need to have and how you can prepare for the same, along with a YouTube video of a mock-GD. Further this article tells you what are the different types of GD, along with example of GD topics.

Hope with information you can apply & appear in IOCL Engineer Recruitment confidently. Some of the readers of this blog missed applying for GATE 2012 (since the date has already passed on 21st October, 2011) and hence now can not apply for IOCL job this year. They are asking me when the next recruitment for IOCL is likely to be conducted i.e. in 2013. Are you one of them? Than visit my next blog post titled: IOCL Engineer Recruitment 2013 probable dates. Also do you know that with GATE 2012 score you can get job in three other major PSU in India - NTPC, BHEL, Power Grid? Please go through about this in my article titled: List of PSU recruiting through GATE 2012– Notification Eligibility Forms.

Best wishes!