Date:17/06/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/06/17/stories/2006061708140400.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Tata Consultancy Services sets a recruitment record

Special Correspondent

Over 2,000 students from 16 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu get job offers

CHENNAI : More than 2,000 students from 16 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu have got job offers from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the last 15 days, a record for one of India's best known IT companies and also in the history of campus recruitments.

About 1,500 of these campus hires were made in the last three days from four leading colleges — PSG Tech, Coimbatore (421 offers), Government College of Technology, Coimbatore (363), the Coimbatore Institute of Technology (237) and Vellore Institute of Technology (525).

The campus hires in PSG Tech and VIT, Vellore, were by far a major record, human resource recruiters of the TCS said here on Friday.

Addressing a video press conference from New Jersey, the Executive Vice President and Head, Global Human Resources, of the company, S. Padmanaban, said the company planned to add about 7,500 persons in Tamil Nadu itself this year and 30,000 across the entire company.

Tamil Nadu continued to be a major source of engineering talent for TCS and it had over 15,000 employees in 10 locations in the State.

About 100 TCS consultants tested and evaluated students and 125 panels did final interviews. Of the nearly 7,000 candidates tested, 3,267 were interviewed and 2,034 given offers.

Giving the key reasons for the strong hiring performance in the colleges, Mr. Padmanaban said the company mainly offered huge career opportunities across domains and technologies. "We believe in making an employee's CV look better all the time by providing him or her with time and resources to get extra qualification and learn new skills."

Training process

The training process included skills upgradation in software engineering and processing, training in global practices of soft skills and understanding of technologies in customers' places.

To a question, Mr. Padmanaban said as a global player, it wanted to leave a global footprint and that was why it was building strong academic interaction with institutions in the U.S., Eastern Europe, China and Latin America.