Satyam to recruit management graduates from Singapore

Hyderabad:
29 November 2004

Hyderabad: Satyam Computer Services plans to recruit fresh graduates from local universities outside India, in its first management graduates hiring programme abroad, to spur its fast-growing software and outsourcing activities in South East Asia and China.

Satyam, which has its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, said it would hire the first batch of five to six local graduates — Singapore citizens or permanent residents — under Singapore's ministry of trade and industry's Asian Business Fellowship programme.

Under the programme, the Singapore government will subsidise the cost of training for a specified period before the graduates are deployed in India, China and Singapore. The graduates will be drawn from the IT, business development and marketing courses.

The Singapore graduates will join approximately 100 fresh graduates in India in a management graduate's programme to be conducted at the Satyam Technology Centre in Hyderabad .

Hari Thalapalli, senior vice-president, human resources, Satyam, said, "Satyam is transforming itself rapidly, beyond being an Indian IT services provider, into a global company. To cater to the increasingly diversified clientele, we need to inject fresh talent from various cultures. Singapore, being a multi-cultural metropolis and our regional headquarters, is a good place to begin this search for talent. "

According to him the management graduates will focus less on IT and software and more on marketing-related skills, including pre-sales, marketing, business analysis and client interface. Singaporeans, with their multicultural background and language skills, can play such roles skilfully in South East Asia and China and help Satyam move up the value chain he said.