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Indian IT's new hiring mantra: Trained freshers

Indian IT services industry is changing its hiring pattern to take trained graduates for entry level jobs on board as more companies see increasing demand for digital technology-enabled services.The $154 billion IT-BPM sector, which hired 1.7 lakh people last year, has created hundreds of thousands of employment for more than a decade and carried out bulk hiring from Indian college and university campuses. IT services and business process management (BPM) companies are slowly shifting its focus towards trained freshers and lesser training time at workplace, said industry body Nasscom. While software services companies such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra and others are in talks of co-creating courses to equip freshers with the initial training; BPM companies are looking at industry ready talent who can be deployed on client's business operations faster than before. As more customers of Indian IT companies seek services to be delivered using artificial ...