With Infosys Technologies gearing up for a larger share of business from consulting to compete with global giants, the IT major is looking at training and hiring more people with business management acumen. In the next fiscal, it plans to start a 4-months residential programme on business management and consulting at its Mysore campus for employees who wants to move from technology to consulting side of the business.
Infosys HR chief TV Mohandas Pai said, ?About 25.7% of business comes from enterprise consulting and it can grow to 30-35% in few years. We have to increase number of people with business acumen. As a HR strategy we are hiring at the top level with business management knowledge. We plan to hire over 1,000 people for the consulting business from the top 25 MBA colleges of the country by the end of 2011. We already have hired 100 and this quarter we will get 100 more,? Pai said.
?We lose a lot of people who want to do MBA so now we are creating an eco system within the organisation to enhance training and certification to do the work,? added the HR chief. Engineers who have a knack for consulting can do a test and get into enterprise solutions and lead business units creating groups of domain consultants, he added.
As a part of the training, Infosys plans to conduct internal entry test like the CAT, followed by an interview, after, which the selected candidates have to go through an intense programme. During the 4-month training period candidates will be de linked from their current assignments. The training will be mainly based on lot of case studies and practical approach and not just theory.