IT firms to continue hiring freshers despite coronavirus pandemic

The move is likely to help in containing costs by improving the employee pyramid; lateral hiring likely to be on need-basis

IT services firms in India are likely to continue with their campus recruitment plans this year despite the Covid-19 crisis impacting their businesses.

However, the hiring of experienced people will be done on ‘need basis’.

Though the pandemic has increased cost pressure on these companies, prompting them to freeze lateral hiring, experts are of the opinion that intake of fresh engineering graduates will continue as they don’t want to miss out on opportunities when the demand bounces back.

“While companies are looking at optimising cost by limiting