The number of non-Indian nationals working with Tata Consultancy Services has shot up significantly in the last two years.
It now employs a global workforce from 110 countries (excluding India) out of a total of 196 countries recognised by the United Nations.
As on March 31, 2012, TCS had 17,329 non-Indian nationals. This is a nearly 27 per cent increase over last year.
British nationals constituted 23.41 per cent of TCS' global non-Indian national workforce. The Americans were next at 15.61 per cent and Chinese at 10.80 per cent.
The software exporter in its 2011-12 annual report said it continued its efforts to recruit from colleges outside India, especially in the US, Canada, China, Uruguay and Hungary.
It recruited engineering graduates from 27 universities in the US and three universities in Canada and two management graduates from the top five business schools in the US.
During 2011-12, the company had a total gross addition of 70,400 employees as well as net addition of 39,969 people.
The gross addition includes 1,898 people in-sourced from customer organisations globally.
The report said TCS visited 389 campuses in India and made 43,604 offers to engineering trainees and 424 offers to management trainees from the top engineering and management institutes in India.
TCS continues to remain the employer of choice at the engineering campuses with 99.7 per cent day one slots as against 99.4 per cent in the previous year.
Campus Commune
A social engagement platform called Campus Commune has been rolled out for various academic interest groups, including students, teachers and TCS experts to connect, communication and collaborate.
This platform will also help TCS enhance its engagements with students who have been given offers to join the company, the report said.
Mr E. Balaji, CEO, Randstad India, a recruitment company, said that TCS being global in nature needs to have a more balanced workforce.
“I think it is a healthy trend and movement in the right direction.”
An official of another large recruitment company who did not wish to be identified said there is a growing pressure from various countries, including the US, on foreign companies to recruit from the local community.