The Hindu Business Line : Accenture to step up campus recruitment

ACCENTURE, the $14-billion IT consulting and services provider, is now looking at recruitment in non-traditional areas (dentists and nurses) and eyeing campus inductions.

The Partner and Head Delivery, Accenture, Mr Chet Kamat, on Monday said that Accenture has grown to 11,000 people across five locations in the country covering consultancy, IT services and business process outsourcing (as on November 2004), and the momentum continues with Indian manpower accounting for about 10 per cent of its global operations.

With the company results slated for April 7, Mr Kamat refused to further comment on new numbers and manpower addition in the last quarter. The company functions in September-August business cycle.

Speaking to presspersons here on Monday, Mr Kamat said that the company's growth had been remarkable given that most of the recruitment both in the IT services and BPO had taken place since 2001.

In fact, the year before last the company closed at 4,500 people, more than doubling the India headcount.

"What started as domestic consulting is gradually moving over to other services. As Indian companies integrate with their counterparts and go global, they need to tackle issues of business transformation, which we partner and engage in. We today work with seven out of 10 big Indian firms, and six out of top 10 based on their revenues. This is a big opportunity to further consolidate our operations," he said.

"The Hyderabad operations that commenced in the year 2003 have grown to 600 people now and we expect to move over to a new campus in June. The Indian recruitment was initially a combination of lateral inductions and some campus recruitment. Now we are looking at more campus inductions," he added.

Nurses, dentists, pharmacists and doctors are among new areas on the recruitment radar.

These people bring certain sophisticated capabilities helping build a team that aligns closely with global team on clinical data management.

The area of Clinical Data Management that helps custom analyse the requirements of large pharma companies helps them gear up for FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) norms and other requirement.

"The Bangalore centre is already engaged with a major pharma company and we expect to broaden the scope of work there," Mr Kamat said.

The area of business analytics is also attracting Ph.Ds. These people help in custom analysis and reverse auctions.

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