How to Verify a Training Institute's Placement Claims Yourself

The problem with "100% placement"

Every institute claims it. The claim is unfalsifiable as stated, because the interesting question is not the percentage but the denominator.

100% of whom?

• Everyone who enrolled?
• Everyone who completed the course?
• Everyone who completed and attended every interview and met the eligibility criteria?
• Everyone the institute chose to count?

The same cohort can honestly produce 100%, 60% or 30% depending on which denominator you use. Ask for the denominator first. If it is not offered, that is information.

Six checks you can run yourself

1. LinkedIn, searched properly

Search the institute's name on LinkedIn and look at people who list it. Then:

• Look at where they work now, not what they studied. Are they in automation roles, or did they end up somewhere unrelated?
• Check the dates. Are the placements recent, or is everyone from four years ago?
• Look at the volume. An institute claiming hundreds of placements a year should have hundreds of alumni findable.

Alumni who are hard to find in an industry where everyone has a LinkedIn profile is worth noticing.

2. Google reviews, read past the star rating

The rating tells you little; the text tells you a lot.

• Sort by most recent. A strong history and poor recent reviews is a trajectory.
• Look for specifics. "Great faculty, good environment" appears on every listing for every institute. "I was placed at [company] in [month]" is a real review.
• Look for the pattern in complaints. One angry review is noise. Six people saying the same thing about placement support is a finding.
• Be suspicious of clusters. Twenty five-star reviews in the same week, all short and generic, are not organic.

3. Ask to call two recent students

This is the single most effective check and almost nobody does it.

Ask for the phone numbers of two people placed in the last three months. Not testimonials on the wall, not a video. A phone call with someone who has no script.

A confident institute will arrange it. Hesitation here tells you more than any brochure. When you speak to them, ask what they were doing before, how long placement took after the course ended, what the actual starting salary was, and what they would warn you about.

4. Look at the offer letters

Ask to see real offer letters with the company names visible. Logos on a website prove nothing; anyone can put a Siemens logo on a page. An offer letter on a company letterhead naming a student is evidence.

Reasonable institutes will redact salary and personal details. That is fine. The company name and the date are the parts that matter.

5. Verify the accreditation independently

If they claim an accreditation, go to the accrediting body's own website and search for the provider. Do not use a link on the institute's site, which can point anywhere.

For UK CPD accreditation, the CPD Certification Service maintains a searchable provider list. Ours is provider number 785368. Check it there rather than believing this page.

If a body cannot be found independently, or exists only as a certificate design, it accredits nothing.

6. Check the companies actually hire for this

Take three company names from their placement list and search those companies' own careers pages and the job boards for automation roles. If a named employer does not hire automation engineers at all, ask about it.

Questions that produce useful answers

• "What is your placement percentage, and of what denominator?"
• "What was the median starting salary of last quarter's placements?" (Median, not the best one.)
• "How many students from the last batch are still unplaced today?"
• "How long, on average, between finishing and the first offer?"
• "Can I call two of them?"

The median question is quietly powerful. Institutes quote their best outcome as though it were typical, and asking for the middle number changes the conversation.

What a straight answer sounds like

You are not looking for perfect numbers. You are looking for numbers with definitions attached.

"Of the 40 students who completed all modules last quarter, 34 have offers, the median starting salary was ₹18,000 a month, and the longest anyone waited was five months" is a good answer even though it is not 100%. It can be checked, and it does not flatter itself.

"100% placement, all top companies" is not an answer at all.

Run these checks on us

We publish the placement record with names and photographs at /placements, the guarantee terms at /placement-policy, and our CPD accreditation is provider number 785368, checkable on the CPD Certification Service's own site. If you ask us for two recent students to call, we will give you numbers.

If any of that does not hold up when you check it, you should not enrol with us. That is the point of publishing it.

Related: What a job guarantee contract should say, The institute checklist.