Top IT services companies likely to focus on tiered hiring strategy
Top IT services firms are increasingly adopting a tiered hiring strategy in which they are attracting entry-level talents at higher salaries, amid a major technological shift, say HR analysts.
About five years ago, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Accenture, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, and Capgemini, among others, were the companies who had formulated this strategy.
The trend started as digitisation started to become the buzzword and clients started asking for skills that were higher than what IT firms were generally hiring for.
“A decade ago, most of the engineering hiring done by the IT services was largely plain vanilla type of hiring. Again from a skill point the projects that IT services handled were also application development management type that entailed Java, Testing, SAP or Oracle. This started to change when the buzz of digitization started. Clients would also say that they do not want the same plain vanilla engineering talent skill sets. Over the years, software development also started to undergo changes,” explains S Pasupathi, COO, HirePro.
