TCS has said that it would hire 25,000 people this year, a move that is likely to give a fillip to the country’s IT recruitment scene, which is seeing a slowdown since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last September. It is still not sure if TCS will be hiring fresh 25000 for this year or [...]
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26 Aug
Mahindra Satyam BPO (Nipuna earlier) hired 700 and planning to hire 300 more.
BPO arm of Mahindra Satyam (Nipuna earlier) seems to be on a hiring spree with plans to recruit 300 employees by the next month. They already hired 700 employees in the last one month. The company has recently bagged a major contract from a domestic client for providing it back office support. “To support the [...]
26 Aug
Sapient on hiring spree in India. To up India headcount by 20%
IT consulting firm Sapient is set to increase India headcount by 20% even as it resorted to layoffs early this year. The hiring exercise is primarily to leverage its marketing and advertising services in the country, said a top company executive. Currently, the firm employs around 4,000 people in India. “Demand for consulting services is [...]
21 May
Good news for Americans and NRIs. Infosys may hire 1000 in US directly.
Indian software firm Infosys plans to hire about 1,000 people in the US in the next 12 to 18 months amid a gloomy job market. It seems that Infosys is spinning the news for non-cooperative US Senators and media. Infosys may hire laid-off US-Based Indians/NRIs from US for its local job instead of Americans but [...]
8 Feb
Wants to go US for job. More H-1B Visa is in offereing.
President Barack Obama’s new pick as commerce secretary, Senator Judd Gregg, may well become the White House lead for expanding the cap on H-1B visas, a bulk of which go to Indian firms.Gregg, who strongly supported expanding the H-1B visa programme in the Senate, is among a group of people in top White House posts [...]
8 Feb
IBM laid-off US workers. Offers jobs to them in India and other low cost countries.
IBM is offering its laid off employees in North America a chance to take a job with the company in India, Nigeria, Russia or other countries through Project Match, a media report said.Citing an internal company document CNN said its Project Match will help interested workers whose jobs are on the chopping block to “identify [...]
23 Jan
Recession impacts TCS. Tata Consultancy slows hiring for the next year.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT outsourcing firm, said it expects to slow its rate of hiring new staff this year, as a broad economic downturn affects its global clientele. CEO S. Ramadorai told Reuters in an interview on Friday that the company expects to add 15,000-18,000 people to its headcount over the next [...]
15 Dec
Infosys India to freeze new hiring as growth slows
Infosys Technologies Ltd will freeze recruitment after meeting this fiscal year’s target of hiring 25,000 staff, a telling sign the global downturn is hitting India’s $52 billion outsourcing sector. India’s second largest software services firm however has no plans to cut jobs and is sticking with its third quarter outlook, CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan told reporters. [...]
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