Accenture to step up campus staffing
By agencies   |   Tuesday, 05 April 2005, 19:30 IST
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HYDERABAD:Accenture, the $14-billion IT consulting and services provider is now looking at recruitment in non-traditional areas (dentists and nurses) and eyeing campus inductions. The Partner and Head Delivery, Accenture, Chet Kamat, said Accenture has grown to 11,000 people across five locations in the country covering consultancy, IT services and business process outsourcing and the momentum continues with Indian manpower accounting for about 10 percent of its global operations. Kamat said that the company's growth had been remarkable given that most of the recruitment both in the IT services and BPO had taken places since 2001. In fact, the year before last the company closed at 4,500 people, more than doubling the India headcount. "What started as domestic consulting is gradually moving over to other services. As Indian companies integrate with their counterparts and go global, they need to tackle issues of business transformation, which we partner and engage in. We today work with seven out of 10 big Indian firms, and six out of top 10 based on their revenues. This is a big opportunity to further consolidate our operations," he said. “Nurses, dentists, pharmacists and doctors are among new areas on the recruitment radar. These people bring certain sophisticated capabilities helping build a team that aligns closely with global team on clinical data management,” he said. The area of Clinical Data Management that helps custom analyze the requirements of large pharma companies helps them gear up for FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) norms and other requirement. "The Bangalore center is already engaged with a major pharma company and we expect to broaden the scope of work there," Kamat said. The area of business analytics is also attracting Ph.Ds. These people help in custom analysis and reverse auctions.

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