Infosys says 2008-09 campus recruits to start joining July onwards - BUSINESS STANDARD

India's second-largest software exporter Infosys Technologies today said it has honoured all the offers it had made in the year 2007-08, and ready for the absorption of the next batch of campus recruitment starting from July this year.

 In 2007-08, Infosys had made about 20,000 campus offers to the students of various engineering colleges. However, the joining date of a few of these campus recruits had been staggered in the wake of the changed global economic situation.

"We have honoured the campus offers made in 2007-08 and all of them have joined the company this year. Last year (2008-09), we had made about 18,000 campus offers. They would start joining us starting from July following the completion of their degree in June this year," Nandita Gurjar, Sr. Vice President, and Group Head of HR, Infosys Technologies told Business Standard.

Meanwhile, Infosys has decided to extend the training duration for the newly joined employees to 26 weeks from the earlier 16 weeks. Gurjar said the company felt that the likelihood of the employees' getting work (project) was more with the increase in the training duration. Infosys spends close to Rs 750 crore every year towards providing training to the company's workforce.

The Bangalore-headquartered company, which employs over 100,000 people, has however decided not to all-together freeze the new recruitments this year. "Right now, we have slowed down on recruitments. We are still recruiting, but only in case of absolute necessity," S Gopalakrishnan, CEO of Infosys Technologies said.