Recruiting in Bangalore

HBI Software is recruiting!

We are not alone however. The IT industry in Bangalore is on a hiring spree. Firms here are constantly hiring staff in anticipation of future projects, not because of them. It is called recruiting for 'The Bench'.

Essentially, once hired, these new recruits are not given any 'live' project to work on. Instead they are put on training of new skills or are placed on various 'in-house' projects. To put it into perspective, in some large firms, and here that means thousands of developers, not hundreds, up to 50% of all employees are 'On The Bench'.

By investing in this diverse range of skills and by developing this capacity, major Indian IT outsourcing companies such as Wipro, Infosys and TCS have been able to secure very major outsourcing projects from the US, Europe and Australasia.

How different from the NZ experience. It has focused my mind once more - these Bangalore visits always re-energize me - that I need to focus more on recruitment when I get back to Tauranga even if there is not the immediate work in place. Securing great people will make that job much easier.