Trend for hiring by IT, BPO cos positive: Cognizant

CHENNAI: Trend looks positive for recruitment in the IT and business process outsourcing industry, a top official of Cognizant said here today.

"The trend looks positive," IT Major Cognizant's Vice-Chairman Lakshmi Narayanan told reporters here.

"Many educational institutes have said that they are getting more campus placements this year", Narayanan who is also the Chairman of ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu, said.

The ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu is a consortium of Government of India, Tamil Nadu Government and Confederation of Indian Industry ( CII).

Stating that since its inception the ICT Academy has trained over 3,000 faculties, he called for good interaction between the Industry and Academia.

As part of bringing the two, he said a state level conference "Bridge 2011" has planned to be conducted on February 16 here.

The conference would be on the theme "Focus on Skills for Future and Innovation", he said.