Season of pinkslips? Here are the firms hiring in India

NEW DELHI: Citigroup on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000 more jobs,
triggering fears of more layoffs across industries. A lowdown on some
sectors and companies which are on a hiring spree (TOI)

TOI, however, has decided to be contrarian.

Instead of only writing about pink slips, it hunted out companies
that are actually hiring. Here are the sectors that are hiring:

SBI will hire 25,000 new hands, according to bank chairman O P Bhat.
Fresh recruitment will be done this fiscal — 20 ,000 in the clerical
cadre and 5,000 supervisory staff.

Bank of India will hire 10,000 over the next few months. This, on top
of over 30,000 fresh recruits in 2008-09. In next 2 years, the bank
plans to take in 75,000.

Accenture will hire 10,000 people in India by 2010, says COO Stephen
J Rohleder.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, top global management consultants, is
looking to hire 3,500 in India in three years.

MetLife, a new private insurance company, will recruit 30,000 agents
and 2,000 managers by March 2009, says CEO Rajesh Relan.

Aegis BPO Services will add 1,000 people per month this fiscal.

CAMPUS HIRING

IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta say all their students have got
placements for next year.

TCS will hire 30,000-35,000 people this year, says a spokesperson.
TCS made 24,789 technical campus offers for 2009-10, a 13% jump over
this year.

Infosys is sticking to plans of hiring 25,000 people this fiscal,
says CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan. Infosys has made around 20,000 offers
for next year.

Satyam plans to hire 8,000-10,000 people this fiscal, says HR head S
V Krishnan.

L&T will hire 10,000 people over the next three years, according to
CMD A M Naik.

Maruti has decided to hire 1,000 fresh hands despite the sluggishness
in the auto sector, says a company spokesman.

Author
B Ramesh Raju
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