Infosys SEZ ready to take off in Hyderabad
By Muruganandham Krishnan at 19 April, 2010, 5:45 pm
Infosys, India’s second-largest software company by market capitalization, is operating the first phase of its brand new IT special economic zone (SEZ) in Hyderabad shortly.
Though first phase to house about 10,000 employees would be fully functional in September this year, the company is planning to commission a facility with 1,000 employees in May.
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IT jobs in 2010
By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 26 December, 2009, 10:56 pm
With 2009 coming to an end, we are seeing the fag end of the global recession also. During the end of 2009, we saw IT market generating jobs. The good news is 2010 is going to be better. After a long hibernation of 18 months, headhunters are actively out in the market as talent requirements [...]
Read More >>Good news: Hiring is on
By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 24 September, 2009, 10:20 am
Good news guys! Jobs are here. Yes, companies have started hiring. The hiring which was put on deep freeze with no probable date of hiring to begin has started though in small numbers. Companies like TCS,Wipro, Infosys who employ the maximum number of people and are potential big hires have started hiring. So have other [...]
Read More >>Major boost to the Indian IT industry – Deals with British Petroleum
By Poonam Singhal at 9 September, 2009, 2:46 am
British Petroleum, one of the world’s largest integrated oil and gas company, has signed a $1.5bn deal with India’s leading technology companies. This comes at a time when the Indian IT industry is just waiting for a boost. This 5 year deal signed will be shared by the major Indian players like TCS, Infosys, Wipro. Reports say that TCS may bag $350-400 million of this deal. Infosys may bag around $200 million. Even earlier, the IT infrastructure management of the petroleum giant was outsourced to a number of vendors over the world, including a few Indian companies. However, BP is now looking at reducing its IT cost by 30% and hence consolidated its operations with a few IT vendors. From approximately 20 vendors earlier, BP has consolicated to 5 vendors now, out of which 3 are Indian companies. This consolidation will surely give Indian IT industry the ….
Read More >>TCS to hire 25,000 more software professionals
By Manoj Govindassamy at 5 September, 2009, 10:58 am
… India is in recession or growth slow down period ? Did you hear, what TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has announced few days back ? TCS is hiring 25,000 people globally in fiscal year 2009 and 90% of them in India alone. Be it in Quarter revenue results or people hiring, TCS is continuously exceeding the market expectation. Oe of the top… less number of hiring for them in this fiscal year. Also, it was said they are going to start IT operations in Tier 2 cities, as their existing offices in metros like chennai, bangalore, hyderabad, mumbai, kolkatta can’t accommodate such a huge new numbers. Meanwhile, they have been very active in campus recruitment also this year, who would join … usually visit top 25 colleges in and around TamilNadu in the first few slots and grad the creamy layers. Last year campus recruits’s joining dates were delayed by 6 months or so. Now, it is been heard they have been receiving joining calls in stages. With additional 25,000 head count, TCS’s total IT army would be around 1.8 lakhs, which …
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