TCS interns to work at client sites abroad
Business Standard — January 23, 2008

India's largest IT services provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Hyderabad, will send interns to take up onsite work for its customers overseas. It plans to begin with the telecom sector.

"We are in the process of sending students to a telecom customer organisation abroad, who will work onsite for 6-8 months to better understand the client's problems and address them before coming back to service the client from the offshore development centre in Hyderabad," Rajanna, general manager, TCS (Hyderabad), said. The company is working on an employment bond for this pilot project.

TCS had recruited 4,000 professionals in Hyderabad in 2007 and is looking at the same number this year too. 5% of its total intake comprises interns, and it plans to send a few of them abroad as part of the pilot project. The initiative will be replicated across all TCS centres in the country.

On the company's 75-acre development facility at Adibatla on the city outskirts, which is part of the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC)-promoted SEZ, Rajanna said the company was creating infrastructure for a 15,000-seat facility there. "We intend to house 3,000 personnel by 2009, add another 5,000 by 2011 and the rest by 2013," he said.

TCS has released employment offers to about 1,400 students so far in 2007-08 from college campuses, some of which are associated with the Jawahar Knowledge Centres (JKCs).