Daily News & Analysis: Executive Vice-Chairman of Cognizant India Speaks About the Company’s Focus Areas Going Into 2014

“Our growth during 2013 was broad-based across our industries, geographies and service lines,” says R. Chandrasekaran. “We anticipate that the healthy demand environment we witnessed in 2013 will continue into 2014. Thanks to our continued investments in service line capabilities, industry expertise, new technologies, new delivery platforms, and expanded geographical reach, we are well positioned to capture it.”

According to Chandrasekaran, hiring the best and the brightest local talent and supplementing it by attracting the best and the brightest global talent has always been the company’s strategy. “In the US, for example, we recently announced plans to hire over 10,000 professionals locally over the next three years,” he says. “It would be pertinent to point out that Cognizant hired over 7,000 technology and business professionals locally in the US in the last two years. We have over 70 full-time recruiters in the US whose only job is to hire people in the US. We go to over two dozen campuses across the country and hire hundreds of students and also hire many experienced professionals from the open market.”

On the company’s focus on SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) technologies, he says, “The new emerging corporate IT SMAC stack is one of our key focus areas and we are pleased with the progress that we are making in it, as it pervades every vertical we are in. The SMAC stack technologies have an opportunity to drive real meaningful change in our clients’ business models.”

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