You may get your dream IT job in 10

You may get your dream IT job in 10
You may get your dream IT job in 10

The new year is sure going to bring a lot of cheer for the country’s seasoned IT professionals. Leading IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS), Wipro, Infosys, Mahindra Satyam and Cognizant have once again started recruitment in the middle and senior level, which were largely on hold since the recession.

The companies are now undertaking such senior-level hiring to bid for big-ticket IT deals which are now opening up in the West. It is usually from January onwards that clients prepare their IT budgets and invite bids. Headhunters estimate that some 3,000 senior professionals have been hired by the Indian IT sector in the October-December 2009 quarter.

Mahindra Satyam, for instance, has roped in a battery of senior professionals to rebuild the company and bid for large deals. It has roped in Vijay Anand Vaderu from Wipro to head strategy, Sudhir Nair from Infosys to drive infrastructure management division, Bobby Gupta from IBM to head sales in Australia and Ram Ramchandran from HCL to head Asean region. A couple of senior people will soon join the US operations.

Patni Computer Systems has recently appointed Naresh L Lakhanpal from Deloitte & Touche to head its American operations, V Mathivanan from Singapore Network Services as president of its Asia-Pacific operations, and Vijay Mehra, who was the global CIO at Essar Group, as exec VP.

“The signs are encouraging since October last year, after more than three quarters of complete freeze in lateral hiring by the IT firms,” says leading headhunter Ma Foi CEO E. Balaji.

Infosys is also believed to be reviewing candidates to head its BPO operations and an announcement is likely by mid-January, headhunters said. This comes after its erstwhile CEO for BPO Amitabh Chaudhry quit in November last year. However, Infosys CEO & MD S Gopalakrishnan refused to comment due to statutory silent period norms before the quarterly results.


Typically, the average cost-to-company (CTC) for lateral recruits starts at Rs 15 lakh per annum in the IT sector. Despite such high talent acquisition cost, the companies are not shying away from such recruitment.

Nowadays, not even a single day goes without me interviewing 2-3 senior professionals for possible recruitment,” says Mahindra Satyam president (global operations) Atul Kunwar.



You may get your dream IT job in 10


source infotech.indiatimes.com/Careers/