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Monday, January 24, 2011

Top IT companies to hire 40,000 in 2011...!

Good news for aal the freshers

TCS to hire 15,000 in Q4:
                        Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest software exporter, said it has hired 50,000 personnel in the nine-month period ended December 2010 and expects to add another 12,000-15,000 in Q4.
TCS added 20,219 people (gross) during the quarter, its highest addition yet, taking its total headcount to 1,86,914 at the end of the December quarter.
"Given the strength of business demand, we have exceeded the hiring target of 50,000 employees, we had set for this fiscal year," TCS's Vice-President, Head, Global Human Resources, Ajoy Mukherjee, told reporters.
 

"We have welcomed the highest-ever number of new TCSers in a single quarter with a gross addition of 20,219 employees as we continued to support the company's strong growth and business pipeline," Mukherjee said. 

IT services biggie Cognizant will hire 25,000 professionals in calendar 2011 matching the company's recruitment figure last year, said R Chandrasekaran, president & managing director of the company.

"During 2010, Cognizant recruited 25,000 IT professionals in India. Although we haven't finalised the recruitment figure for 2011, it will be as good as last year's," he told reporters shortly after inaugurating its new tech park in Bantala.

Cognizant to hire 25,000 in 2011: 
                                         Cognizant's global manpower pool is at 1 lakh, out of which some 8,000 techies work in Kolkata. On the business scenario, Chandrasekaran said, "Demand in the industry was strong in the last two quarters and hopefully it will continue in future."

Apart from traditional markets like the US and Europe, the company will also focus on emerging geographies like India, the Middle East bloc, Japan, Australia and ASEAN countries.


Cognizant started operations in Kolkata in 1996 with 16 professionals which has grown to 8,000. The tech park at Bantala is spread across 20 acres in the Bantala special economic zone. The first phase of the facility is around 650,000 square feet and has a capacity to accommodate more than 4,000 professionals, out of which around 2,000 professionals are working now.

It invested Rs 200 crore in the construction of the first phase and when fully completed it would have the capacity to accommodate around 16,000 professionals


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