Career Quips: BHEL Recruitment 2012 (ET) Notification, Eligibility & Form

BHEL ET Recruitment 2012 Notification Eligibility Form

BHEL had issued recruitment notification 2012 for 800 Engineer Trainees from the disciplines of Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics. These vacancies are open for freshers. Although the notification had come out in October 2011, the Online application form has become available only from 4th January, 2012. The last date to apply online for this BHEL ET recruitment is 28th January, 2012.

But there is a catch - you can apply for these BHEL jobs only if you had applied for GATE 2012 earlier, last date of form submission for which was already over on 21st October 2011. What are the eligibility and how to apply for these engineer trainee positions in BHEL? This is the subject matter of current blog article.

You can click here to download the BHEL ET Recruitment Notification 2012. You should also go through this FAQ page.

But before we go further, a small introduction on BHEL.

What is BHEL:

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), established in 1953, is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-related/infrastructure sector and is also one of leading power generation equipment manufacturers in the world. The company has been earning profits continuously since 1971-72 and is paying dividends since 1976-77.

BHEL manufactures over 180 products under 30 major product groups and caters to core sectors of the Indian Economy viz., Power Generation & Transmission, Industry, Transportation, Telecommunication, Renewable Energy, etc. The wide network of BHEL consists of 14 manufacturing divisions, four Power Sector regional centres, over 100 project sites, eight service centres and 18 regional offices.

BHEL is on a rapid expansion mode - it plans to become a Rs. 45,000 crore company by 2011-12 and double that amount by 2016-17.

More about BHEL can be found from this BHEL site.

BHEL ET Recruitment process:

From 2012 onwards, there has been a major change in how BHEL is going to recruit Engineer Trainees - till 2011, BHEL used to conduct its own Written recruitment test which was of 2 hour duration having two papers: Aptitude & Technical. The selection process for ET was hence: Written Test -> GD/Interview.

But from 2012 onwards BHEL is not going to conduct the written test itself - it is going to use the GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) scores to shortlist the candidates for its further selection process. The changed selection process form now onwards would be GATE-> GD/Interview.

Hence for the ET positions in BHEL from now onwards, you have to appear in GATE relevant to your discipline and do well in the same, so that you can be shorlisted by BHEL for GD & Interview.

GATE 2012 scores of applicants would be used to shortlist the candidates for Interview. Almost 2400 candidates are expected to be shortlisted as the ratio used by BHEL is 1:3 for each category/discipline. In the final merit list 75% weightage would be given to GATE 2012 score and 25% for Interview.

Branch-wise BHEL ET vacancies for 2012:

A total of 800 ET vacancies exists: Mechanical(550), Electrical(175) & Electronics(75).

BHEL ET Salary:

Salaries offered by BHEL for ET is: pay scale of Rs. 20600-46500/- at the basic pay of Rs. 20600/- during one-year training. With this pay scale, minimum CTC is Rs. 7.5 lakhs/annum. Post training pay scale is Rs.24900-50500/- with a basic pay of Rs.24900/-. This is apart from other benefits.

Eligibility for BHEL Engineer Trainee :

Age Eligibility: (as on 01.08.2012)

Maximum 27 years (DOB earlier than 01/08/1985 are not eligible) if you are a BE/B.Tech.
Maximum 29 years (DOB earlier than 01/08/1983 are not eligible) if you are a PG in Engineering or Business Administration/Management with basic degree in Engineering.

Age relaxations exists for reserved categories.

Final year students can also apply provided you can submit your final mark sheet by 20th August, 2012

Educational Eligibility:

Bachelor’s degree holders in Engineering /Technology (4 years after 10 +2 ) / or Five year integrated Master’s degree or Dual Degree programme in Engineering or Technology in the disciplines of Mechanical /Electrical /Electronics Engineering.

If you have engineering degree in some other allied disciplines as given in page-3&4 of the Notification, than also you will be considered but you have to appear in GATE 2012 in the disciplines of ME, EE & EC only.

Since you have to appear in GATE for these ET positions, it is needless to say that you also have to possess the eligibility for GATE, details of which can be found in my blog article titled: GATE 2012 Notification, Eligibility & Forms.

How to apply for BHEL ET Recruitment 2012:

There is no offline form for BHEL ET Recruitment 2012. You have to apply online only. You have to register (i.e. apply) actually twice for BHEL ET positions- Once for GATE & than for BHEL. And while applying for BHEL, you have to use the "GATE-2012 Registration Number" as given in the GATE admit card.

How to apply online for the BHEL recruitment is described clearly in this webpage.
You can click here to find the BHEL ET Recruitment 2012 Online Form.

BHEL ET Recruitment 2012 GD/Interview Dates:

BHEL 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.

How to prepare for BHEL GD Topics/Interview Questions:

Post-GATE, the selection process for GATE ET position consists of only GD/Interview. Hence 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 BHEL 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 BHEL.

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.

IMPORTANT BHEL ET Recruitment 2012 DATES:

Start date of online registration for BHEL ET Recruitment 2012: 04.01.2012.

Last date of online registration for BHEL ET Recruitment 2012: 28.01.2012.

Date of GATE-2012 exam: 12.02.2012.
Date for receipt of Acknowledgment Slips at BHEL: : 22.02.2012. (29.02.2012 for far flung area)

In my subsequent blog post, I would cover more on GATE exam preparation and BHEL ET GD & Interview materials. So keep visiting this blog!