Opening Jobs in TCS, TCS is Hiring for India
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India’s largest IT employer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has new openings (vacancies) & will hire 25,000 people globally this year (2009) and 90% of which will be from India only.
Vice-president and head government industry solutions unit Tanmoy Chakrabarty confirmed the plan. “Tier II cities are our only focus for expansion in the country as the top rung are clogged and saturated for space. We will be hiring 25,000 people this year, which means roughly 25 lakh sq ft of work space required and therefore, we need to grow outside the metros, wherever we find the most compelling reason to be.”
TCS has decided to adopt the policy of real-time management whereby we will hire in the last three months of the final year of graduation rather than a year before,” said S Ramadorai, managing director and chief executive officer, TCS. This will not only help the company to optimize and increase its utilization, but also align its hiring strategy closer to the demand and supply of business, a company spokesperson said.
The company is working on ways to reduce the two-month training period by half. TCS, with over 130,000 employees, has already freezed lateral hiring and plans to hire only on need basis. “The decision is also been based on our constant interaction with the academia, which have been telling that students are not pursuing higher studies as they get jobs and also during the academic year they tend to get lax,” added the company’s spokesperson.
The decision will not impact the company’s current hiring plan of recruiting over 24,000 students for FY10. The step comes immediately after the Nasscom announcement to hire students only in their eighth semester. “Some firms were hiring in the fourth or fifth semester of an academic year. However, now the IT trade body and companies have decided to hire only in the eighth semester of the academic year,” said Nasscom President Som Mittal. Mittal felt that this will help the students as well as the industry. “When you hire that early, students get confused and do not focus on their studies. Besides, we also realised that since many would get jobs they would not concentrate on further studies,” added Mittal.
Currently TCS is developing a Rs1,000-crore ‘Passport Seva Project’ to provide speedy passport delivery services. The Union ministry of external affairs has tied up with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to ensure availability of passports within 72 hours of completion of formalities in six cities, as part of a pilot project. ‘In the first phase of this project, computerised passport facilitation centres will be opened in Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Ambala, Bangalore, Mangalore and Hubli. ‘Depending on the response, the company plans to increase the number of these facilitation centres to over 70 all across the country by June 2010 Chakrabarty added.
