Massive jobs coming! This French company to hire 30,000 employees in India this year

In a major news for those seeking job opportunities, French tech major Capgemini is set to hire up to 30,000 employees in the country this year. The company already employs close to 1.15 lakh people in India and is looking to derive more value from its presence in the country. Company's country chief executive Ashwin Yardi told PTI that the hiring will be evenly split between freshers and experienced professionals, or laterals.

"India forms a very important part of our business and we will hire 25,000-30,000 people here this year on a gross basis," Yardi said. At present, it is focusing efforts on re-skilling employees for the technologies of the future, he said, adding that this has now become a continuous process. The Indian workforce constitutes for over half of its global employees base.

Yardi said there has not been any "restructuring or involuntary attrition" beyond the normal course of exits due to performance-related issues.

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He said that clients have become more demanding and the employees have to be moved into a project on an immediate basis. Yardi added that the utilisation levels have not been because the training and skilling activities take place along side project work for an employee. A major part of the hiring could be at Airoli (near Mumbai), company's biggest development centre. Yardi said that there is sufficient space at the centre while adding that it has created capacity at other centres over the last two years which can accommodate the new joinees.

He said that company has taken a call not to do 'blue sky thinking' and adopt the "applied innovation" concept to come up with client specific improvements. Capgemini is also keen to play on the products front and is happy being a services company, he said.

Yardi also clarified that the French company is also not investing in startups unlike some peers, but working jointly