Capgemini, French IT firm to bring educated women from rural areas into its workforce. The lessons from the coronavirus pandemic has led the firm to start hiring women from rural areas who are qualified but are unable to pursue career because of an inability to relocate as software engineers, according to a senior official.
The company has started the hiring process and has hired 100 women from southern states who are under training and it plans to hire 500 women by the end of the year. They will be hired as a trainee and will earn at least Rs 3.5 lakh per year, which is at par with peers.
“The pandemic showed us that work can be handled seamlessly from anywhere in the country because of telecom infrastructure and that is where we decided to launch the project to hire such qualified women who have been forced by circumstances not to pursue a career” – said Radhika Ramesh, global delivery centre head for CIS India at Capgemini to PTI.
Hired through project named ‘Sakhi Drishtikon’, the women will work on projects involving various team members in the cloud and infrastructure services (CIS) business to start with and also work on cyber security front, as per her statement.
She also stated that the women will be qualified graduates or postgraduates or possess a diploma in a specialised subject and will be put through more rigorous training modules before absorbed into projects and will also have experienced engineers as mentors. The work they will be handling will not be akin to business process outsourcing (BPO) services.
Capgemini is a global provider of consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services. A company of 265,000 people in nearly 50 countries, Capgemini employs more than one lakh people in India.
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