To increase its talent pool in India, IT networking major Cisco System India Pvt Ltd has decided to increase its headcount six fold to nearly 360,000 in the next five years.
The IT giant has announced a series of initiatives to nurture networking professionals, which would translate to an addition of nearly 360,000 engineers within the next five years.
As a part of its initiatives, Cisco has announced two of the country’s largest technology training organisations – National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) and Indian Institute of Hardware Technology (IIHT) – as becoming Cisco Certified Learning Solutions Partners.
The two institutes will offer Cisco certified programmes to students and professionals in over 200 locations throughout the country.
“The launch of our talent-development initiative in India underscores Cisco’s commitment to expand access to the IT training and certification resources that will support the country’s continued economic growth,” said Leo Scrivner, vice-president of human resources at Cisco Services. Source: economictimes
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CORRECTION STATEMENT
Clarification on ‘Cisco India to hire 360000 people’
As per our press release sent out on February 4, 2008 on ‘Cisco’s Talent Development Strategy’, Cisco aims to offer networking curriculum to NIIT, IIHT and Global Knowledge in India to train and expand India’s networking industry’s workforce capacity to 360000 in the next five years.
The 360000 number does not refer to the number of employees Cisco wishes to hire!
360000 is the number of networking industry professionals that Cisco will, work with partners like IIHT and NIIT, to train and develop in India.
Please refer to our press release for details on our announcement. For any clarifications, kindly contact us at.
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Varghese M Thomas
Cisco
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