Infosys to recruit 300 graduates from US varsities

As part of its plans to create a diversified and global workforce, Information Technology (IT) major Infosys will be recruiting 300 college graduates from the Universities in United States and 25 graduates from the United Kingdom during 2007.

The new employees hired from the US and UK will begin their careers with a four-month training programme at the Infosys Global Education Centre in Mysore, which is one of the largest corporate education centers in the world. Later, they will be relocated to various development centers throughout India for another two months before returning to Infosys locations in the US and UK.

Announcing its first large scale initiative to bring foreign talent to India, N R Narayanamurthy, chairman of Infosys, which is the second largest software exporter in India, said the large scale recruitment of graduates from the US and UK represents an important landmark in the evolution of the company.

During the year 2005-06, Infosys had doubled the percentage of its non-Indian employees by hiring more than 25 different nationalities.

Infosys began recruiting for entry-level software engineer positions at top universities in the US following a successful pilot programme that brought ten young Americans to work in Bangalore.

Meanwhile, students from Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harwvard Business School and the Said Business School of Oxford have also been competing with each other to visit Infosys’ Bangalore campus for the company’s internship programme.

Last year, the internship programme at Infosys in Bangalore received more than 11,000 applications for 100 positions. The internship programme spread across eight to twenty four weeks brings students from 82 universities in 18 countries to India.