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Talent hunt also goes global

Moving in step: A file picture of Mr Nandan Nilekani, CEO, Infosys, interacting with the interns of 2005 batch at its Banglore campus. - G.R.N. Somashekar

Bangalore, May 12

Infosys Technologies said on Friday that it was recruiting 30 interns from 17 European technology and business schools as part of its Global Internship Programme — InStep.

The schools from where interns will be recruited include Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and London Business School, UK; Mannheim University, Germany; Ecole Polytechnique, France; and St Gallen, Switzerland, Infosys said in a press release. This is the third year the InStep programme has recruited students from Europe.

The interns will have the opportunity to work at Infosys headquarters in Bangalore on high quality, high visibility projects for between 8-24 weeks.

As the largest institutionalised global internship of its kind in India, the 2006-07 InStep programme would recruit 125 students from 82 universities across the world including Harvard, Wharton and Stanford, US; Tsinghua, China; Seoul National University, Korea; Melbourne Business School, Australia.

Commenting on the success of the programme, Mr Nandan M. Nilekani, Chief Executive Officer, President and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies, said: "Talent is imperative in today's economy and the increase in globalisation means the competition for global talent is rife. At Infosys, we recognise the importance to invest in skills globally and provide opportunity for future business leaders to understand the changing dynamics of a flat world."

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