The Economic Times: Cognizant is the Top Recruiter from Premier B-Schools in India

The Economic Times, India’s top selling business daily, has ranked Cognizant as the largest recruiter from B-Schools in India across industries. Cognizant topped the paper’s annual ranking of B-School recruiters with 83 offers across 21 premier B-schools in India.

In a special report, the paper writes: “A few aggressive companies are going all out to attract talent even in a slowdown.” It adds, “Cognizant, number one in India’s Top Recruiters list this year, also featured in the top ten in the previous two years. It hires one MBA for every 20-25 tech professionals and this, the company believes, is the best way to beat the industry-wide slowdown."

"At Cognizant," the paper notes, "MBAs undertake a varied spectrum of roles such as IT consulting, client relationship management, business development, opportunity assessment, M&A, business integration and analytics. The company hired more than 200 MBA students from the 2013 graduating batch.”

“Our industry-leading growth is, in part, a function of our ability to proactively provide solutions to business problems and not just technological capability. This attribute is strengthened by our MBA talent,” says R. Chandrasekaran, Group Chief Executive for Technology and Operations at Cognizant. “While our consulting business has been the biggest recruiter of management graduates, we now have several groups within our Emerging Business Accelerator businesses, looking for MBA talent for their ventures.”

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