The Hindu Business Line : HCL Tech’s ‘campus to corporate’ initiative

Bangalore, Jan. 24 HCL Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with four colleges in Bangalore, as a part of its campus engagement initiative. The initiative includes introducing ‘GoPro’ — HCL’s ‘Campus to Corporate’ — a career development programme to develop the next generation of corporate community and tie-ups with select women’s colleges to encourage and widen the gender representation in the corporate world.

‘GoPro’ is HCL’s endeavour to build up the ‘next generation of professionals’ and would help to hone, inculcate and develop essential qualities and capabilities among the youngsters to sustain the corporate challengest.

The training module would include soft skills, communication, etiquette and attitudinal and behavioural skills. The initiative is also structured to encourage ‘innovation and creativity’ among students.

To this effect, varied competitions and campaigns on innovation and creativity would be rolled out.

Apart from strategic tie-ups with engineering colleges, HCL’s initiative will also be signing up with women’s colleges from arts and science background to encourage gender representation and diversity in the professional workforce. This apart, the company would be setting up ‘Technology Labs’ to facilitate training and research work for students and would also introduce ‘Faculty Enablement Programme’ to engage the faculty to interact with experts in certain areas of technology. The faculty also can do a sabbatical at HCL.

The colleges that HCL is signing this MoU with are the Bangalore-based PES Institute of Technology, RV College of Engineering, Mount Carmel College and Jyoti Nivas College.

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