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Infosys attracts U.K. graduates

MYSORE: Signifying a turn of tide and reversing a historical trend of Indian students making a beeline for the United States and United Kingdom for greener pastures, a group of 25 graduates from the U.K. will train at Infosys’ Global Education Centre in the city.

The new recruits will begin their six-month customised software engineering education programme in early September. They have been selected from leading institutes like the University of Bath, University College London, University of Nottingham, University of Surrey, Imperial College and Kings College.

A press release said that after the four-month educational programme in Mysore, the new recruits will be relocated to various Infosys Development Centres across India for a two-month hands-on experience with real projects. Following the successful completion of the six-month orientation programme, they will return to Infosys offices in the U.K.

The Global Education Centre on the Infosys campus was inaugurated in February 2005. The centre can accommodate over 4,500 trainees in a single sitting, and work is in progress to expand its capacity to another 9,000. The recruitment from the U.K. is part of the Infosys’ global talent programme in its bid to get the best in class for its software development services. “The Global Talent Programme” is Infosys’ university-level recruiting programme outside India.

Infosys announced its pilot plan to recruit college graduates from U.K. universities as part of an on-going commitment to create a diversified, global workforce. Applications were invited for software engineering positions from students with technology majors as well as liberal arts, with a mathematics background. The U.K. initiative follows a successful implementation of the GTP in the U.S. that was able to recruit 250 graduates to India, the release added.

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