Persistent Systems, L&T Infotech, Mindtree & Mid-Tier IT Cos’ Hiring From Other Industries!

As the demand for IT services and tech professionals remain strong, many companies are witnessing a manpower squeeze to cater to the client requirements. Even elevated attrition levels are acting as a double whammy. Big IT firms such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro and others have doubled up their hiring activities.

While these challenges have spared no one, such dearth of talent and rising attrition is adding margin pressures to the mid-sized IT companies including Persistent Systems, L&T Infotech, Mindtree, and others. While big IT majors are rewarding employees with salary hikes, promotions to beat the talent crunch, mid-sized IT firms have been forced to change their hiring strategy.

We had earlier reported how these companies are adopting a hire-train-deploy model to bring freshers on board. Companies are also focussing on non-engineering graduates and traditional engineers and to fill the gap. These companies are hiring engineering freshers and also non-technical people and training them to increase their talent pool.

Pune-based IT firm Persistent Systems is tapping into traditional engineering talent. Sandip Kalra, CEO of Persistent Systems, said that they are searching for engineers and talent from other industries and are working on a strategy to skill and deploy them. Similarly, in order to meet the demand for specific skills, L&T Infotech has plans to hire non-technical people and train them.

In a step in this regard, Mindtree has announced the Edge Program, in which BSc and BCA graduates can earn a Master’s Degree in software engineering from BITS Pilani.