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Third of new service delivery centres opened in 2011 set up India: BPO Jobs

A good news for BPO jobs aspirants in India. According to new data, contrary to the political rhetoric in the developed West against Indian outsourcing sector and talk that India is losing its competitive advantage for IT and back-office services, India continues to remain the preferred offshore destination for technology and service outsourcing.

A look at the new service delivery centres opened in 2011 shows that around one third of the total were set up in India, beating all other regions in the world including Europe, Latin America and China.

NOTE: A service delivery centre is a campus or a unit to carry out IT or other services, either by an independent vendor or the captive unit of a company headquartered overseas.

The data further points out that within India, only cities like Bangalore and Hyderabad are not the destinations of choice; instead many smaller cities such as Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Dehradun, Nagpur and Kochi, are also getting the blessings of big corporations.

Preference for India in the field is due to cost advantage, compared to other countries of the world. That apart, there is cost advantage as well, when the centre scales up operations. A delivery centre in India brings other advantages such as relatively lower attrition levels (employees hopping jobs), low wage inflation and being the employer of choice in the city (getting quality work force becomes easy). ---------

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Third of new service delivery centres opened in 2011 set up India: BPO Jobs

Anil Singh Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Clearing some air on the concerns that global economic uncertainties may slow business growth at India's information-technology companies, Priti Rajora, global head of talent acquisition at the outsourcing-services unit of Wipro Ltd. recently said that Wipro will go ahead with its hiring program as planned. Wipro is India's third-largest software exporter by sales after Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Infosys Ltd.

According to Ms Rajora, the company has still not seen any impact, from this business environment change, on hiring. The company may recruit 25%-30% more entry-level staff in the next fiscal year starting April 2012 compared to this year, on expectations that demand for software services will rise.

Good news for job aspirants and economy, when Wipro is upbeat about hiring, despite economic concerns in the U.S. and Europe--the biggest markets for Indian technology companies. In simple, a depression in US and Europe, may force clients there to delay decisions on outsourcing contracts, or even to reduce IT budgets, and even delay pending invoices.

As a part of its restructuring bid, Wipro has changed its hiring strategy this year. Under the new change, the IT Company plans to add more entry-level workers compared to experienced employees. About 70% of Wipro’s new staff will now comprise entry-level people--hired usually from college campuses. Great news for fresh graduates, who are waiting eagerly for a campus selection. The company plans to visit more than 400 colleges to hire entry level-staff for April 2012 hiring. Is there college in the list?

In the last fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, the company hired more than 14,300 new employees. This has taken the company's total headcount to 122,385. If one assumes that Wipro will take 25 percent more employees in April 2012, then freshers can expect to compete for a sizable portion of the 17875 new jobs. ---------

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Wipro to hire 18000 new employees in 2012

Anil Singh Monday, August 29, 2011