Institute · 14 Jul 2026 · 5 min read

The real cost of a "guaranteed placement" promise

Why we guarantee three interviews instead of a job — and what that trade-off actually means for a graduating cohort.

Marga Evolearn

Every institute that promises guaranteed placement is making one of three choices, and prospective learners deserve to know which one.

Choice one: define "placement" down. The guarantee holds because any offer counts — including roles that pay less than the course cost, in functions unrelated to what was taught. The number stays clean. The outcome does not.

Choice two: define "eligible" down. There is a clause. Attendance thresholds, assessment scores, a mandatory number of applications, a location flexibility requirement. Most learners breach one of them, quietly stop qualifying, and never appear in the denominator.

Choice three: absorb the cost honestly, and price it in. This is the only version that is not a trick, and it makes the programme substantially more expensive for everyone — including the learners who would have found roles on their own.

What we do instead

We guarantee three interview opportunities for every learner who successfully completes their course. Not three applications. Three interviews, with hiring partners, matched to your track and your portfolio.

And we say the rest plainly: landing an offer from there depends on the interview itself. We do not control who a company hires. Anybody telling you they do is describing a placement agency, not an education institute.

Why three interviews is worth more than it sounds

The thing that actually blocks a first-generation candidate, or a candidate from a tier-3 college, or a career switcher, is almost never a lack of ability. It is that the resume never gets opened. Three guaranteed interviews is a direct, structural fix to exactly that problem — the door opens, and then it is on the work.

Paired with portfolio review, a mock interview panel with real feedback, and introductions run by our own placement team, that is a promise we can keep every single time. We would rather make a smaller promise and keep it than a larger one with a footnote.

The classroom, the payment plan, and the interview room should all be gateways. Never gatekeepers.

Marga means the path. We run practitioner-led programs across eight tracks in IT & Emerging Tech. Three guaranteed interviews on completion, need-based assistance evaluated case by case, and no promise we can't keep.