FAQs on Campus Placement Programme released by ICAI

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has released FAQs on Campus Placement Programme.

As an endeavor to provide assistance to the Newly Qualified Chartered Accountants while registering on https://cmib.icai.org for participation in Campus Placement Program (AugustSept, 2023), the CMI&B has come up with answers to some of the frequently asked queries which are based on the queries received from the Newly Qualified Chartered Accountants who have participated in the Campus Placement Programmes earlier.

Various stages of the Campus Interviews Process:

1) Peruse the General Guidelines as given in the Announcement

2) In case of doubt, please refer to these FAQs

3) Online Registration by the Candidates on https://cmib.icai.org

4) Submission of the Undertaking into Candidate Login

5) Online payment of the fee of Rs.500 inclusive of taxes to get the Centre Code e.g DEL/KOL/MUM6) Online Shortlisting by the companies First Round

7) Online Consent by the candidates First Round

8) Online Shortlisting by the companies Second Round

9) Online Consent by the Candidates Second Round

Various categories of Queries:

a) Eligibility Online Registration and filling up the Form

b) Online Payment

Eligibility

Q.1 What is the eligibility criteria for Campus Placement Programme August-Sept 2023?

The candidates who fulfill the following criteria are eligible to appear in the Campus Placement Programme to be held in August-Sept 2023:

Q.2 If a candidate has qualified in the CA Final Exam held in May 2023 but the Articleship is not completing in accordance with the Eligibility Guidelines i.e., upto 31st October 2023, is he/she eligible for Campus Placement Program August-Sept 2023?

Where the candidates have qualified in final examination held in May 2023, but his/her Articleship training is not completing in accordance with the cut-off dates as mentioned above in the Eligibility Guidelines, he/she shall be permitted to appear in the next Campus Placement Program to be held in February-March 2024.

Q.3 If a candidate has qualified the CA Final Exam held in May 2023 and is below 21 years of age due to which he/she is not eligible to apply for ICAI Membership, is he/she eligible for Campus Placement Program August-Sept 2023?

A candidate who has completed Articleship training but to attain 21 years of age to secure ICAI membership, is required to seek special permission through email at [email protected] for attending Campus Interviews.

Online Registration and filling up the Form

Q.1 If Eligible, how to register for the Campus Placement Programme?

The registration for the Campus Placement Programme shall be online and would be carried out through https://cmib.icai.org.

Q.2 For which category of candidates, preliminary registration is required?

Only Chartered Accountants who have qualified CA Final Examination:

• held in November 2022 or whose CA Final results were declared in verification after 31st January 2023 and Completing their articleship between 1st May 2023 and 31st October 2023 and have not applied in earlier Campus Placement Programme have to go for preliminary registration.

Q.3 How to select your centre online?

Candidate should follow the below mentioned procedure to select the centre online:

a. A candidate who wants to opt for both bigger and smaller centre:

The candidate should select the bigger centre in the first choice (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune) and then in the second choice he should select the smaller centre (Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Durgapur, Ernakulam, Indore, Kanpur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Rajkot, Raipur, Ranchi, Thane & Vadodara, Visakhapatnam) from where he/she wants to appear.

Q.4 While registering for campus placement programme, if the candidate could not fill the entire form at one time, can he/she edit the form again?

Yes, the option to edit the form remains open until the entire online form is filled (Till the last date of registration) and successfully submitted and centre code has been allotted (E.g., DEL, MUM etc) to the candidate.

Q.5 While registering for Campus Placement Programme, if a candidate, due to mistake has given his/ her wrong e-mail address and wants to change email id then what should the candidate do?

The candidate may change email ids on his/her own by logging on to the placement portal and the option to change the email id appears at the profile of the home page (setting section on Update Profile).

Q.6 What if a candidate is not selected from the bigger centre from where one has registered? Will the candidate be given four fresh chances to select the Company at smaller Centre?

If any candidate of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune center has not been selected by the company or the candidate does not accept the offer, his/her database would be merged (after validation within the date of resubmission) with the centre of his/her second choice (smaller centre) i.e. amongst Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Durgapur, Ernakulam, Indore, Kanpur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Rajkot, Raipur, Ranchi, Thane & Vadodara, Visakhapatnam. Also, candidate would be given four fresh chances to select company at second choice centre.

Q.7 When the database would be merged with second choice centre?

The database of the candidates appearing for the interviews at the bigger centres would be merged with their second-choice centre after completion of first round of interview, in case the candidates do not get selected or do not give consent to the offer letter at the centre of their first choice after the completion of interviews at the centre of first choice.

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