Infosys recruited 19,230 new graduates to its talent pool, says Nandan Nilekani

Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani has said  that the IT giant has continued to enhance its talent pool by hiring 19,230 graduates in India and 1,941 outside the nation to meet the growing demand for digital acceleration among its clients. Nilekani said that Infosys is well-positioned for another year of market-leading performance in a post-pandemic, cloud-first digital world during the company’s 40th annual general meeting.

“We continued to strengthen our talent pool by recruiting 19,230 graduates in India and 1,941 – both graduates and associate degree holders outside India to serve our clients” burgeoning demand for digital acceleration. We expanded our US hiring commitment to 25,000 by 2022 with an additional 12,000 new American jobs across a variety of roles,” he said.

Infosys, according to Nilekani, had industry-leading, robust revenue growth of 5% in constant currency in 2020-21, totaling USD 13.6 billion. According to him, the company’s major transformation projects reached an all-time high of USD 14.1 billion, with 66% of them being net new.

According to the Aadhaar architect, Infosys has developed a highly credible market position for itself as a global digital services and consulting supplier of choice for companies over the last three and a half years.

Nandan Nilekani stated that the firm has increased its financial commitment to COVID-19 assistance to Rs 200 crore, indicating that the corporation is supporting community initiatives across the nation.

In India, the firm has established immunisation centres on campus and COVID-19 care centres around the country, partnered with hospitals and ambulance services, facilitated access to oxygen and medications, and strengthened employee support.

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