Capgemini, a French multinational corporation headquartered in Paris that provides consulting, technology, professional, and outsourcing services, announced it will employ close to 1.15 lakh people in India. As part of the recruitment drive, the company will recruit up to 30,000 employees this year. The big recruitment drive clearly signals that the company has plans to further expand its presence in India.
As per the company’s CEO Ashwin Yardi’s statement, the hiring will be evenly split between freshers and experienced professionals, or laterals. The Indian workforce constitutes over half of its global employees base.
“India forms a very important part of our business and we will hire 25,000-30,000 people here this year on a gross basis,” Yardi said, as per a media report. At present, it is focusing efforts on re-skilling employees for the technologies of the future, he said, adding that this has now become a continuous process. It has been found that youngsters under 30, who make up for over 65 per cent of its workforce, show a keenness to learn, he said, adding that it is conducting special programmes for the mid-level managers having 10-15 years of experience who would be placed as project managers or architects. Yardi said there has not been any “restructuring or involuntary attrition” beyond the normal course of exits due to performance-related issues.
Yardi said the company believes in offering an entire bouquet of services to a client to meet the entire spectrum of needs, and discloses the work done by a startup to the client. It has also hired a chief innovation officer from a startup recently, he said.
Recently, Capgemini has been awarded a contract by the European Commission to support the establishment and development of European sectoral ISACs (Information Sharing and Analysis Centers), and to promote coordination in the industry.
Also, once again the company has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as one of the 2020 World’s Most Ethical Companies.
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