IT firms to push campus hiring closer to pass-out date
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 13 February 2009, 23:53 IST   |    3 Comments
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Mumbai: IT companies are altering their hiring strategies to cope with the changing business environment. Unlike the past, big IT firms like TCS and Wipro are planning to push campus hiring closer to the pass-out date as they believe that it will bring greater visibility of the business environment while hiring, reported BusinessLine. S. Ramadorai, Chief Executive and Managing Director, TCS said, "We want to do real time talent management. While in the past we would go to campuses to recruit in the fourth or fifth semester, we will now do so only in the seventh or eighth semester. This will enable us to better match hiring needs with actual demand." As TCS is seeking to raise efficiency the new move is expected to help the company to reduce the bench and increase utilization. Moreover, the company has increased the performance bar for it employees to meet higher productivity demand. Ramadorai further added that in case of a four-year course, TCS may approach the campuses only three months before the students pass out. Earlier, the company would do it either before the end of the third year or beginning of the fourth year. "This issue has also been deliberated in Nasscom and more or less, member companies have agreed to follow this practice," Ramadorai opined. Wipro is another IT major who brings this strategy into practice. "We have encouraged campus hiring both for IITs and other technical colleges to be held during the final semester of engineering and not during penultimate year of engineering, as is the current practice. This would give students enough time to be well-prepared for assessment and will also enable organizations to get a good grip on the future business demand," mentioned Pradeep Bahirwani, Vice-President-Talent Acquisition, Wipro Technologies.

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