Satyam to recruit local Singapore graduates

India's fourth largest software services player, Satyam Computer Services Ltd today announced that it would recruit fresh graduates from Singaporean universities in its first management graduates hiring programme outside India to spur its fast-growing software and outsourcing activities in South East Asia and China.

The Hyderabad-based company, which has its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, announced that it would hire the first batch of five to six local graduates - Singapore citizens or permanent residents "� under Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry's Asian Business Fellowship programme.

Under the programme, the Singapore government will subsidise training cost for a defined period before being deployed in India, China and Singapore. The graduates will be drawn from IT, business development and marketing courses.

The Singapore graduates will join approximately 100 fresh graduates in India in a management graduate's programme to be conducted at the Satyam Technology Centre in Hyderabad.

Thalapalli, senior vice-president for Human Resources at Satyam, said, "Satyam is transforming itself rapidly, beyond an Indian IT services provider, into a global company. To cater to the increasingly diversified clientele, we need to inject fresh talent from various cultures. Singapore, being a multi-cultural metropolis and our regional headquarters, is a good place to begin this search for talent."

"Specifically, these management graduates will focus less on IT and software and more on marketing-related skills, including pre-sales, marketing, business analysis and client interface," he said.

"Singapore plays an important role for Satyam globally, not just in terms of being the regional headquarters and the business continuity centre. We see Singapore as an effective business partner to grow the outsourcing business further because of its excellent infrastructure, legal framework and strong government support for the IT services sector," Virender Aggarwal, director and senior vice-president and head of Satyam's Apac operations added.

The company has recently been named among the top 10 'Best companies to work for in India', in an industry survey conducted by a leading Indian business publication - Business Today and Mercer-TNS.

Satyam has been expanding its global footprint to not only offer clients it's near shore presence but also enhanced global delivery capabilities.

With the recent launch of operations in Hungary and Brazil, Satyam is preparing to actively engage in Europe and Latin America.

Apart from expanding base in the US, Canada and Australia, Satyam also strengthened its operations in Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, in India.