Wipro hires 8000 employees from campuses
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 25 October 2008, 17:24 IST
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Bangalore: Most of the companies are now busy reviewing their hiring plans to counter the decline in growth as a result of global economy crisis, while the third largest IT firm in India, Wipro has said that it had recruited 8,000 employees through campus offers this fiscal. Pratik Kumar, Corporate Vice-President, Human Resources, Wipro said that there had been no delay in new recruits joining the company. "In normal routine students were not absorbed at one-go but were taken in, spread over various quarters of the fiscal year," he said. He mentioned that nearly 14,000 offers were made last fiscal and the students are expected to join by end of this fiscal. Specifying that Wipro has dispatched learning kits containing CDs, and content material on the organization he said, "We hope that students would go through these and thereby save around two weeks on training when they join us. The normal training duration was 12 weeks." On lateral hiring he pointed out, "Lateral hiring would be in line with demand. It is going to be selective and would depend on skill shortage." Wipro's net staff addition has reached at 1,877 during the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Of the total hiring 352 witnessed in IT services, 967 in BPO and the rest 558 was for India and Middle East IT services. Kumar also stated that company's voluntary attrition rate had dropped to 11 percent in second quarter of this fiscal from 14.7 percent in Q1 and from 17 percent in Q2 last fiscal.