TCS to hire 32k pros in ’07

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: Tata Consultancy Services would recruit some 32,000 IT professionals in the current year, a top company official said on Tuesday.

In an informal chat with reporters, K Karthikeyan, head strategy, planning and operational excellence, said that the company recruited 32,000 professionals in the last financial year and it would be repeated in the current fiscal, too.

Of the 32,000 personnel planned for recruitment, 50% would be freshers from engineering, arts and science colleges and the rest would be experienced hands. As many as 19,000 professionals were recruited last year at the Chennai branch and in the current year, an addition of 6,000 is planned.

The major facility of TCS coming up at Siruseri near Chennai is to be completed in six phases. The first phase would be commissioned by the third quarter of the financial year and when the sixth phase is completed in 2010, the total IT professionals working at Siruseri would exceed 22,000.

Simultaneously, the activities of TCS located at Kochi, Coimbatore, Chandigarh are also poised for expansion and the company was also “holding tier-ii cities like Madurai and Tiruchirappalli in its radar”.