Choosing a final-year AI project that a recruiter will care about
Walking a room through evaluation criteria Originally published at https://pranjulrathour.scult.in/blog/choosing-final-year-project-ai . That copy is the canonical version and gets updates first. A final-year project is the one time college gives you months to build something and a panel that has to listen. Most students spend it on a chatbot with no users and a report with no numbers. Here is how I would choose, having reviewed many and having built the projects that got me hired. Choose by user, not by technology Start with a person who has a problem you can reach: a department, a local shop, an NGO, a clinic. The college-documents RAG project is a strong default because the users are in the building. A project with ten real users survives any viva question about relevance. A career session for students Pick one hard part Retrieval quality, deterministic extraction, on-device inference, evaluation in a regional language — one genuinely difficult problem you will actually solve...