— PHOTO: G. R. N. SOMASHEKAR

ENHANCING SKILLS: Kevin Campbell (left), Group Chief Executive, Outsourcing, Accenture, and Sandeep Arora, Lead Executive, Accenture Delivery Centre for Technology, India, at a press conference in Bangalore on Thursday.

BANGALORE: Accenture, the global technology services and outsourcing company, has formed a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to provide career advancement and skills training courses for its employees across the world. Two certification courses, one for persons with less than three years' work experience and another for those with longer experience are being offered; 4,000 out of the Accenture 27,000 employees in India will be trained to start with.

Kevin Campbell, Chief Executive, Global Outsourcing, Accenture, told reporters here on Thursday that the courses were meant not only to fill the demand-supply gap of knowledge workers but also to enable its India centres "power our global delivery network." The company spent $700 million on training many of its 1.52 lakh employees around the world last fiscal. The courses that include on-the-job training will be of 18 to 24 months duration and will enhance overall skills, including those specific to the needs of Accenture and its clients.

Sandeep Arora, Head of Delivery Centre, India, said the courses focused on system integration skills and career advancement for each trainee and MIT faculty helped in designing the courses and assessment and the certification would be a co-branded one, provided by the newly created Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy. "The India operations grew by almost 60 per cent last year," he added. The headcount would also go up significantly this year.

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