With the demand side for IT firms continuing to be robust, the focus has now shifted to the supply side and it’s a war for recruiting talent.
KOLKATA: With the demand side for information technology companies continuing to be robust, the focus has now shifted to the supply side and it’s a war for recruiting talent.
Cognizant, the fastest growing IT services company in the industry has set target to ramp up headcount to 36,000 employees globally by December 2006 from 31,000 at present.
In India, Cognizant has 22,000 employees at its five global delivery centres and one BPO and with a global corporate human resources strategy of maintaining 70% of its total global manpower strength in India, Cognizant has launched a massive campus recruitment drive.
It created a record of sort at Institute of Technology , Benaras Hindu Unversity ( IT BHU) and Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) when it became the first IT company to visit these campuses with offer letters to 206 candidates at IT BHU and 150 for Besu.
However, these students would be joining in 2007 and would be in addition to recruitment targets for this year.
In both the colleges, the numbers that Cognizant hired is the highest by a single company on a single day.
These students who are in their third year of engineering will join Cognizant in June 2007 after completing their four year course and meeting requisite standard of marks.
“Campus hiring is an integral part of Cognizant’s recruitment philosophy and it hires 60-70% from the campuses,” said Bhaskar Das, vice president, HR of Cognizant.
“Our endeavour is to recruit from among the premier institutes across India and we are very happy with the quality of talent we have recruited from these two colleges,” Das said.
The IT major has five global delivery centres at Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad and another BPO in Mumbai. Cognizant officials said that new recruits in India were not for any specific verticals but would function within the overall business plan of the company.
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