POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013 through GATE 2013 : Career Quips

POWERGRID (PGCIL) has just today issued recruitment notification 2013 for Executive Trainees (ET) through GATE-2013 from Electrical engineering disciplines. It is the most opportune time for those of you graduate engineers aiming for a job in blue chip PSU companies. In last two days, three other PSU organisations have issued recruitment notification 2013 through GATE-2013: NTPC, HPCL & GAIL. So GATE - the exam has truly become the GATE-way for you to grab those lucrative PSU jobs.

You can find a list of PSU recruiting through GATE in my earlier blog article titled: Jobs through GATE 2013 List of PSU Organisation recruiting,

The current blog article is being written to apprise you about the POWERGRID ET job and helps you to apply for the same with summary of information on the eligibilities and application form. Towards the end of the article, you would find the prep materials for POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013 - the written part (i.e. GATE 2013) and also GD/Interview..

You can click here to download the POWERGRID Graduate Engineer Recruitment Notification 2012.

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

What is Power Grid Corporation?

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. is the largest transmission utility organisation in India and is one of the largest in the world - accounting for 50% power transmissions in India (the other Indian organisations in this sector being - NTPC, NHPC & NPCI). It is responsible for the inter-state transmission of electricity and the development of national grid.

Power Grid has a pan India presence with around 95,329 circuit KMs of Transmission network and 156 nos. of sub-stations (EHVAC & HVDC) with a total transformation capacity of 93,050 MvA. Power Grid has consistently maintained the transmission system availability over 99.00% which is at par with the International Utilities. In the recent times, it has also diversified into Telecom business and established a telecom network of more than 20,000 km across the country. You can know more about this PGCIL from this About Us Page.

POWERGRID ET vacancies 2013 & GATE 2013 Papers:

Exact Number of Executive Trainee vacancies is not available at this moment, but POWERGRID is going to recruit through GATE 2013 from Electrical engineering branch and hence you have to appear in EE paper of GATE 2013.

Eligibility for POWERGRID ET:

Age Eligibility:

Maximum 28 years. (as on 31.12.2012)

Age relaxations exists for reserved categories.

Educational Qualification Eligibility:

Minimum 65% aggregate (just pass mark for SC/ST/PWD candidates) marks in Batchelor degree of Engineering (B.E. / B.Tech. / B.Sc. Engg.) or AMIE (Minimum 65% with both Sections A & B cleared by 31.03.2013)

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 2013 Notification, Eligibility & Forms.

POWERGRID Recruitment 2013 Online Form:

You have to register (i.e. apply) actually twice for POWERGRID ET positions: once for GATE & than for POWERGRID.

First you have to apply online for GATE 2013.

Click here to find the GATE 2013 Online Form.

How to apply for for GATE has been described in detail in this webpage.

Last date for applying online for GATE 2013 is 30th September, 2012. So better hurry!

Subsequent to your online registration for GATE 2013, you would be able to download the GATE 2013 Admit card from 5th December, 2012 onwards. Now you have to use the "GATE-2013 Registration Number" as given in the admit card to register online for POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013.

The POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013 Online form would be available from 7th January, 2013 in this POWERGRID Career website. Last date for submission of POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013 Online form is 8th February 2013.

IMPORTANT POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013 DATES:
Start date for online registration for GATE 2013: 01.09.2012.
Last date of online registration for GATE 2013: 30..09.2012..

Date of availability of GATE 2013 Admit Card (hence GATE-2013 Registration Number): 05.12.2012.

Start date of online registration for POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013: 07.01.2013.

Last date of online registration for POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013: 08.02.2013.

Date of GATE-2013 EE Paper: 10.02.2013 (Offline).
Date for GATE 2013 result: 15th March 2013 (Friday)

Date of GD & Interview for POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013: April/May 2013.

Subsequent to your online registration for ET positions, POWERGRID would procure the GATE scores from GATE authority, shortlist the candidates and if you are within the merit list, would call you for the subsequent selection process - Group Discussion (GD) & Interview.

Prep Materials POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013:
To qualify in POWERGRID Recruitment 2013 and get that lucrative Graduate Engineers job, you have to prepare for two things - for the written exam (i.e. GATE 2013) and GD/Interview. This blog has enough prep material for you to crack POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013.

My previous blog article titled: GATE EE Syllabus, Sample Papers & Books would help you prepare for GATE 2013, by pointing you to the sources for downloading syllabus, sample papers, books & coaching institutes for the exam:

Prep Materials for the POWERGRID Interview: Please visit my blog article titled: Interview for Jobs, 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.

You should also be ready to face questions on "What is POWERGRID", as the interviewer would want to know how much interested you are for this job. So go through this About Us Page of the POWERGRID

Prep Materials for the POWERGRID GD (Group Discussion): Please visit my blog article titled: Group Discussion for jobs, 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 above information on POWERGRID ET Recruitment 2013 through GATE 2013 and the prep material is useful to you in getting the POWERGRID job.Please keep visiting this blog. I would be on the look out for more job avenues through GATE and post the same here, as and when I find them.