Reuters India plans co-branded course

Reuters India Pvt Ltd, the financial data and news service provider, aims to create a talent pool of market analysts and other people in related fields in the country.

For this, it is in talks with an institution with expertise in financial markets for co-branding a certification course in niche areas.

Reuters is running a pilot of the certification course for 25 persons in the organisation. "We are looking to co-brand the certification course with a well-known institution with expertise in the financial markets," said David Johnson, Head of Reuters, Bangalore.

The course is aimed at augmenting the degrees of the students taking up the course, Johnson added. Reuters, in future, aims to scale up the number of people to which it will offer the course to 1,000.

This will also be a ready pool for Reuters from which it can find people for itself. Reuters, which has 2,000 people today in Bangalore, plans to scale up the number of people in Bangalore to 2,900 in a year.

This trend of firms or industries providing 'specialised training' to ensure a captive group of candidates from which they can recruit has been a trend that has been in vogue lately.

Be it the Industry bodies like National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) which has been setting up finishing schools or business groups that sponsor or design courses in association with colleges to develop a captive group of candidates from which to recruit.

Bharti Resources, the subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, had earlier announced a tie-up with the Global Retail School (GRS) to impart training to jobseekers in this sector. Bharti had helped design the curriculum for the course.