Tata Consultancy Services will make parts of its learning content available to campus recruits even before they join its rolls as part of a pilot project that could reduce fresher training periods and improve utilisation rates.
“Currently, most of the fresher training is done on-campus. We are piloting digital training internally and are trying to see if we can extend this to students who have our offer letters.
“While we cannot do the entire three-month training period before they come on board, our assumption is that this will help reduce training time and make them productive quicker,” Ajoyendra Mukherjee, Executive Vice-President & head of global HR, said at a news conference today.
However, he did not quantify as to how much the productivity will improve.
For 2014-15, the Tata group company had given 25,000 offer letters to campus recruits. TCS, which employs over 300,000 staffers, had a utilisation rate of around 80 per cent, including trainees, for the fourth quarter of 2014. Utilisation rates refer to the percentage of company employees engaged in revenue generating software projects.
Currently, Initial Learning Program is something that every fresher has to undergo for 3 months upon joining TCS. Freshers are imparted technical skills and soft skills as part of this programme.
TCS SurveyToday, TCS announced the findings of a survey which show that high school students in India prefer Facebook ahead of other social media platforms.
“Facebook remains young India’s playground. Twitter seems less favourable than Facebook. More than 18 per cent of the respondents claim they are following less than 40 people in their Twitter account,” according to the TCS GenY 2013-14 report, which added that high school students found Twitter to be ‘complex’.
About 76 per cent of youth across India chose Facebook as their most preferred social networking site, with 77.36 per cent youth coming from mini-metros and 74.35 per cent from metro cities. Mukherjee said that surveys such as these allow TCS to gauge trends among the youth, some of whom could be future employees of the IT company.
The survey, which was conducted across a total base of 18,196 high school students in the 12-18 age group, showed that time spent on the Internet was more or less the same across the country.