HCL to employ 5,000 locals from Vijaywada over the next five years

HCL aims to train, hire and employ 5,000 local residents in the city over the next few years through an extensive skill enhancement program aimed at bridging the skill gap of the local talent and leveraging the gender equal workforce.

The Industry Academia meet was aimed to provide the participants with an in-depth understanding of the HCL’s training & hiring program recently launched in Vijaywada. The meet took place within a month after HCL inked an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh Government to open a state-of-the-art Global IT Development and Training Centre at Vijayawada.

Nara Lokesh, IT Minister; Kollu Ravindra, Minister of Law & Justice, Skill Development, Youth, Sports, Unemployment benefits, NRI Empowerment and Relations; Minister for Irrigation, Command Area Development and Water Resources Management D Uma Maheshwara Rao; and Dr. K. Lakshminarayana, Founder Chairman, APSSDC presided the meet comprising of management, founders, promoters, directors and deans from numerous engineering colleges and universities, along with senior leaders from HCL Technologies.

HCL will be sourcing fresher engineers, Class XII pass out candidates who will be selected as per the selection criteria and trained on various aspects of technologies required to make them job ready. The candidates will undergo training basis the industry curriculum developed and customized by HCL. Candidates post successful completion of the training will be placed in HCL Vijayawada and will also be doing campus placements for candidates for the IP related work.

Addressing the gathering Nara Lokesh stressed that there is a need for educators and academicians to look at things differently and play a pivotal role in managing the aspirations of today’s youth.

Commenting on the importance of the meet and the program launched by HCL, Srimathi Shivashankar, Vice President, HCL Technologies, said, “The HCL Scholar Ambassador program will enable and fast track partnering with the institutions in the city to discover the potential of the local talent. This will also help us promote the come back home concept by getting local people back to their home towns with global career opportunities.”