Ajoyendra Mukherjee, executive vice-president and head of global human resources, TCS, said the company had carried out an off-campus recruitment drive in January- February.
Last year, TCS, India’s largest software services firm, issued similar number of offer letters to freshers. In 2015, offer letters were issued to over 40,000 freshers, which declined to 35,000 in 2016.
“On account of automation, hiring in the IT sector will go down to a certain extent but it will not freeze. In fact, automation will also create opportunities,” Mukherjee said, adding the company had undertaken a massive reskilling drive of its existing employees so that their job roles could be interchanged as per the requirement of the company.
Under the programme, Agile, which equips employees with digitally updated skill-sets, TCS has already trained 210,000 staff, out of the total of 395,000 on its payroll. Mukherjee, however, said the reskilling drive would not impact the company’s margins, despite its operating margins declining over the past five years. “We have made sufficient investments towards reskilling programmes over the last few years and it is better than opting for outside hiring,” he added.
TCS has rolled out campaigns like Go IT under which students in the primary grades visit TCS’ delivery centres in the US and learn about robotics and analytics, which, Mukherjee believes, may encourage students to pick up technical subjects. Furthermore, it has partnered Discovery Education to reach up to a million kids and 20,000 educators at school level.
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