TCS will recruit 1000 Americans this year
Daily News & Analysis — June 7, 2006

Intent on being on the list of top 10 global IT firm by 2010, Tata Consultancy Services is expanding its presence in its key market — North America. It already has 50 offices in the US to service its biggest customers and now it is taking on the big boys from Silicon Valley in hiring the best brains from Ivy League colleges such as Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. India's biggest software services exporter, TCS has plans to recruit 1,000 employees in the US this year to fill technical and managerial roles.

"North America contributed nearly 60% of TCS' total revenue — we don't expect this percentage to change radically. However, as we continue to expand across all points of the globe we expect to see this percentage change a bit," Surya Kant (pictured), president of TCS America, said. "We have been actively recruiting at top global technology and business schools including Harvard.

In North America, TCS expects to hire about 1,000 local associates this year to build on its already sizable presence in this geography," said Kant, who has been with the firm for 27 years, earlier heading operations in Japan and Britain. TCS currently has 10,000 employees in North America. It is the only Indian software company to employ 62,832 professionals from over 53 countries and has plans to hire 30,500 more. Wipro and Infosys each employ more than 50,000 people.