The Hindu Business Line : Genpact to recruit 6,000 more by year-end

GENPACT, one of the largest business process outsourcing (BPO) company, with about 15,000 employees in India out of 19,000 it has globally, plans to recruit about 5,000 to 6,000 more in the country by the end of this year across its seven delivery centres.

Interestingly, the company expects to increase the number of undergraduate recruits from the 5-7 per cent to 10 per cent within the next two years.

The Senior Vice-President of Genpact, Mr Ashok Tyagi, said in effect the company would add close to 10,000 people in one year, if the issue of attrition were to be factored into the overall numbers. "We expect to induct about 5,000 to 6,000 people a year over the next three years," he said.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday to announce a tie-up with Osmania University for providing graduate course training here, The Indian centres of Genpact, particularly Gurgaon, Hyderabad and Bangalore have grown rapidly and the recent additions of Kolkata and Jaipur are witnessing swift ramp-ups.

In order to ensure that there is steady flow of experts, apart from in-house training offered by 250 tutors, who have put in about 1.7 million training hours, the company is exploring partnerships like the one with Osmania University, where undergraduates actually get to work and learn. Such selected students are offered 50 per cent of the fee amount for the course, he said.

"Such a system is extremely interesting. By the age of 21, an undergraduate would have actually put in three years of work experience and also simultaneously completed graduation. However, a selected candidate, while he can pursue studies, he would be entitled to take up job only after completing 18 years," Mr Tyagi explained.

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