Indian IT firms set to hire 90k freshers

New Delhi: A robust IT sector earnings in the April-June quarter means that jobs are back and India’s top tech companies are looking to hire close to 90,000 freshers in the current fiscal. While IT services major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to hire nearly 40,000 freshers in FY25, Infosys aims to recruit around 15,000-20,000 freshers this fiscal.

TCS hired 5,452 employees in the first quarter of FY25, reversing three-quarters of the drop in headcount. The company now employs 6,06,998 people. The attrition rate also came further down to 12.1 per cent in Q1. According to its chief HR officer Milind Lakkad, the key strategy has been to basically hire from the campus.