In the ever expanding IT industry, campus recruitments are no longer about careful selection of engineers but about roping them in bulk.
As the magnitude for qualified human resource in IT and ITES continues to increase despite speculation of a recession just around the corner, the IT majors are on a binge recruitment drive. At SRM University, TCS recruited 1,214 students, Accenture signed up 849 and Wipro another 273. At every other private university in Tamil Nadu like Amrita, VIT or Sastra, the top notch IT companies are recruiting en masse. The pattern is similar in top government-aided and self-financing colleges where hundreds of students are offered IT jobs.
This year, Cognizant alone has hired 7,122 anew till now. Hiring thousands of students from a campus across various domains has become a norm. Be it a student of Chemical engineering, Biotechnology or Mechanical, the final destination seems to be an IT company.
For Chemical engineering student M.S. Maheswari, it was easy to shift streams to take up a job at an IT firm.
