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Nasdaq listed IT services firm Cognizant today said that it will hire 10,000 professionals in the US in the next three years. Of these, 750 will be from Texas.
At persent, Cognizant has a total of over 29,000 employees in the US.
"Because of structural changes in business (driven by regulation, consolidation, globalization and virtualization of businesses) and emerging social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, we see continued demand for our business. To meet this demand, we expect to hire over 10,000 professionals in the United States over the next three years," said Gordon Coburn, President, Cognizant.
Cognizant also announced a grant for three years of $150,000 to support university-sponsored science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programmes at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
"We have a technology “skills gap” in this country today. The American Society for Training and Development defines this situation as 'the point at which an organization can no longer grow and remain competitive because it cannot fill critical jobs with employees who have the right knowledge, skills and abilities.' This is America’s challenge today," he added.
