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Tech firms look beyond engineers
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 23:07 IST
Bangalore: Large IT services companies are opening their door to non-engineering science graduates and the trend is now gaining ground given the sensitive U.S. business environment, rupee appreciation, wage inflation and attrition, reported The Economic Times.
This year is witnessing many companies recruiting a minimum of 10,000 science graduate candidates. The reasons for a huge intake in plain science graduates include expanding the scope and size of talent pool, improving bulge mix, checking wage levels, right-skilling and a greater alignment with entry into new service offerings.
"Most of these companies are getting into new areas like infrastructure management, testing, support and maintenance that enlarges the scope of farming out chunks of jobs to pure science graduates," says SV Krishnan, HR Head, Satyam.
"Typically, a project can be broken down into high-end development work and support and maintenance which are repetitive. So, nearly one-third of the work flow is doable by non-engineers with customized training," Krishnan says.
All large players have found a much wider pool of talent to source from and are ready to scale up training to streamline non-engineers. It is believed that training duration and cost would be significantly higher for science graduates compared with engineers which would be offset by a 30 to 50 percent cost advantage in the former's entry salaries.