In a move to filter the
‘quality’ of engineering graduates hired, software majorsTCS , Infosys,
Wipro, Accenture, Cognizant andHCL have agreed to use the NAC-Tech test or the
Nasscom assessment for competence in technology test.
According to ET Now, this
test will serve as a pre-requisite for entry level hiring in the technology
sector. Industry body Nasscom has been pushing for the adoption of this
initiative. This has been done in light of the fact that huge retraining costs
are incurred by the IT companies.
The
scores of this test will be calibrated with the internal test that these
companies will conduct for all the engineering students. The additional
filtering mechanism will improve the quality of intake, Nasscom hopes.
The placement season for
engineering students will start in the month of September. With this important
development, it needs to be seen whether IT companies will hire in large
numbers that they usually do.
Notwithstanding the
economic uncertainty, fresher recruitment and salary levels saw an upward trend
in the IT and ITeS sector during the January-March quarter of 2012 compared to
other sectors in the same period, a survey showed.
The survey findings
reveal that IT and ITeS Sector had recruited 24 per cent freshers in the last
quarter of FY’12 of their total hiring, a surge of 9 per cent from the year-ago
period.
Besides, salary level in campus placements was up by 8 per cent in IT
and ITeS.
Overall, recruitment
index has risen by 11 per cent in January-March quarter to 24 per cent.
Among the nine industries
surveyed, infrastructure sector recruited 21 per cent freshers, followed by
engineering and manufacturing and automobile sector (18 per cent), retail (16
per cent) and FMCG (14 per cent).
The
fresher’s hiring trend this year looks upbeat with IT majors recruiting more
compared to last year. The fresher’s recruitment market had seen growth in
terms of number of hiring and salary
– Rajesh
Kumar, CEO, MyHiringClub, which conducted the survey.
In terms of geography,
Bangalore, hub of IT and ITeS companies witnessed a maximum fresher recruitment
of 24 percent followed by Delhi-NCR (21 per cent), Chennai (18 per cent),
Mumbai (15 per cent), Hyderabad (13 per cent) and Kolkata (10 per cent).