Tech Mahindra Unleashed it's Hiring Plan, Likely to Hire 4000 Freshers

Tech Mahindra indicated at hiring around 4,000 freshers over the next three quarters as the IT services major focuses more on "demand-based" hiring instead of creating an inventory.  The company has already hired about 1,800 fresh graduates in the first quarter of the ongoing fiscal, Tech Mahindra Chief Financial Officer Manoj Bhat said in a recent investor call. "I think over the next three quarters, I do not have a ready number, but our estimate would be about 4,000 people roughly, but it could vary a bit so do not take that as a number, but it is just an indicative view," he said.

The Mumbai-based company had a total headcount of 1,13,552 people at the end of June 2018 quarter, an addition of 745 people over the preceding quarter. The software headcount was 72,462 people, while those in BPO were 34,700 and 6,390 people in sales and support function in the said quarter. Tech Mahindra CEO and MD C P Gurnani said trends suggest that hiring is no longer linear to the growth of companies.

Also, fresher hiring is distributed ie a center in Plano, Munich or the UK is just as important for hiring as the Indian market is. "The focus is more on demand-based hiring instead of creating an inventory," he explained.  Talking about high attrition rates at the firm, Bhat said the company is concerned about attrition of key talent, but is it something that wouldn't impact its ability to execute.

"As of now it is still probably under control and we will continue to monitor it closely," he added. Tech Mahindra reported attrition at 19 percent (last 12-month basis), while utilization levels were at 81 percent (including trainees). COO of Tech Mahindra, L Ravichandran said the company is looking at different kinds of training and very specific online-based training so that the trainees can become billable very quick.