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Going global, TCS way of tapping HR

A. Saye Sekhar

V. Rajanna

HYDERABAD: Can an e-school sophomore think of going abroad for an internship? May be, no. But, India’s top IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd, has made the impossible possible. A large telecom company, which is a TCS client, has come forward to offer internship in its facility outside India to students of top engineering colleges.

After the internship abroad, the student will have to work at TCS in Hyderabad. This enables the academia too to understand what exactly a customer, seeking IT services, wants.

Imparting training to students with a view to making them industry-ready has been taken up by the TCS on a large scale. “Increasing the employability of students is advantageous to the company, as they become productive from day one, contributing to the growth in the company’s top line and bottom line,” said V. Rajanna, General Manager of TCS here, in an interview to The Hindu on Friday.

Students of M. Tech, MCA and B.E/B. Tech from the top engineering colleges were chosen for internships. “The idea is to reduce the gap between the industry and academia,” he said. A student normally would wok on small projects in small teams. But, the internships within and outside India offered by TCS would bring about a paradigm shift and magnify the scope of their work. As part of the global academic interface programme, the company, along with reputable global institutions, would offer internships of 6-8 months.

The company was encouraging engineering faculty in the colleges too to take a sabbatical and work on research and development programmes in TCS. On their return, they would set up innovation labs in their colleges and work on technologies of specific interest to industry, institution and TCS. Some of the TCS executives were working at premier institutes like IIIT-Hyderabad, NIT-Warangal, and JNTU, as adjunct faculty. A few engineers from TCS secured their Ph.Ds. The TCS trained 478 teachers and 844 interns covering 382 Indian and 66 overseas institutions in the first half of 2007-08.

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