My First Post
----------------------------------------------------------------
2,000 join Infosys on a single day
Surely, it can’t get bigger than this!
Infosys Technologies saw 2,000 new recruits reporting for duty for the first time on a single day — June 26. That’s bigger than what most companies in India have employed in their entire life time.
And that’s a record for Infy too, breaking the earlier high of 906 people who joined in July 2005.
Most of these new recruits will be trained at the company’s global training centre in Mysore, while a few hundreds will be trained in Hyderabad. The Mysore centre that has a seating capacity of 4,500 has already trained over 10,000 people in the last one year.
And guess what, even the starting salaries in Infy have gone up sharply. With talent becoming scarce, Infy has increased the base salaries for freshers to Rs 2.7 lakh per annum this year, from Rs 2 to Rs 2.1 lakh last year. That’s an over 30% increase.
‘‘The hikes are mainly to attract talent and also to fall in line with the industry average,’’ said Bikramjit Maitra, V-P and head (HR), Infosys.
Infosys had said at the beginning of the year that it was expecting to hire 25,000 people this year, scaling up from its existing strength of 53,000. In fact, all lead players, be it IBM, Accenture, TCS or Wipro, are on a major hiring spree.
June to December is IT hiring season in India. “Companies that have comprehensive training facilities, like Infosys and TCS, will hire thousands of freshers from campuses, while others including IBM and Accenture will focus on lateral hiring,” said HR consultant B S Murthy.
In the next few months, around 20,000 freshers are expected to be hired and trained for ERP, CRM, telecom, datacom, testing and product engineering by tier I players in the country
2,000 join Infosys on a single day
Linear Mode
